Emil Stoichev is a Bulgarian painter, born on 26.06.1935 in Sofia. He lives in Paris since 1991. He worked as a theater painter in Sofia (1954 – 1959). He participates in all the official representative exhibitions in Bulgaria, as well as in exhibitions of Bulgarian art abroad. He participated in: Biennale of painting in Cannes sur Mer, France (1978, 1981), International Art Fair in Basel (1978, 1988), New York International Art Fair (1980), Paris Autumn Salon 1979, 1987). He had solo exhibitions in: Sofia (1965,1966,1971,1975,1976,1985,1995), Plovdiv (1973,1977), Varna (1977), Sliven (1983), Dobrich (1989), as well as in Berlin 1972,1973), Warsaw (1977), Madrid (1979), Prague (1981), Paris (1984,1992,1993,1994), Limassol (1986), United States (1988), Belgium 1989, Luxembourg and Austria 1990). In last years he works regulary with the Cavallet Gallery in Varna. His works are owned by: National Art Gallery, Sofia Art Gallery, Blagoevgrad, Varna, Ruse, Sliven, Dobrich, Burgas, as well as national galleries in Bucharest, Prague and private collections in Europe, America and Japan. Prizes: Sofia Prize (1967), Vladimir Dimitrov – Master Award (1979, 1985), Biennial Prize in Cannes Sur Mer (1981), Grand Prix of VI Biennial in Szczecin, Poland . Council in Rodoma, Poland (1987). He is the only author who presents Eastern Europe in the catalog of Auction House “Drouot”. His creative biography previously began somewhere in the 1960s when after his first exhibition was shot down. Bogomil Rainov buys almost the entire exposition. Next years Emil Stoychev intervened in the artistic life of Paris. His periodical exhibitions in various galleries make him increasingly talking about him. In the early 1990s, Jacques Chirac, then the mayor of Paris, invited him to make an exhibition at Bagatello Palace and found it personally. So far Emil Stoychev is the only Eastern European author who has the honor to show his art there.