Kocheishvili Boris

Boris Kocheishvili (b. 1940, Elektrostal, Moscow Region) is a Russian graphic artist, painter, poet, and innovator in gypsum relief technique. A key master of the "seventies generation," his works blend sharp drawing, theatricality, and plastic expressiveness. Member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1964. He graduated in 1962 from the Moscow State Academic Art College of the Memory of 1905. From 1965 to 1975, he studied at the Experimental Etching Studio named after I.I. Nivinsky under E.S. Theis. Since 1963, he has participated in domestic and international exhibitions, developing a signature style with compositions aspiring to the square format. Renowned for grotesque graphics of the 1960s–1970s, "black-and-gold" painting of the 2000s, and plaster reliefs combining painting, graphics, and sculpture. Works held at the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum. Also author of poetry collections and anthologies. Retrospective “Simple Summer” is passed at the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum (2013). In 2025, the exhibition “Cloud, Lake, Tower” took place at the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation (Moscow). In 2026 (85th anniversary), his foundation prepared new projects highlighting his contribution to unofficial art of the 1970s–1980s.