Ivo Spirov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1984, raised on Japanese animation and the walls of his mother's apartment. His mother, Director of PR for the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria, gave him permission to paint at age thirteen. Those walls still carry
his marks today.

After earning dual degrees in Visual Arts and Environmental Science from New Bulgarian University, Ivo relocated to Malibu, where the distance from everything familiar pulled him back to painting. What began at John's Garden, taking orders, making friends, quietly making work, grew into a practice that has taken him from Malibu galleries to the Tokyo International Art Fair.

His influences are specific: Katsuhiro Otomo, Hayao Miyazaki, James Jean. Artists who built entire worlds from line, color, and feeling. Ivo's work carries that same ambition. Acrylic on canvas, pattern and face, the human eye as subject and symbol. Bold enough to stop you. Quiet enough to pull you in.

He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where he teaches art at MUSE Global School and collaborates with photographer Rony Peters on a series that brings painting and photography into conversation.