Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo is one of those artists who quietly rewired my imagination. What grips me is the flesh and muscle in his work: hyper-real surfaces rendered so convincingly that impossible warriors and goddesses seem to actually breathe. The Inkpot, the British Fantasy Award, and a lifetime achievement Chesley aren't decoration; they mark a man who, having moved from Lima to the United States, conjured entire sword-and-sorcery worlds with a brush. For anyone who grew up devouring fantasy covers, his paintings are burned permanently into memory. I count myself among them, and I think his influence on the visual grammar of the genre is hard to overstate.

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Name (English)

Boris Vallejo

Name (Japanese)

ボリス・バジェホ

Reading

ぼりす・ばじぇほ

Born

January 8, 1941 (age 85)

Origin

Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Occupation

painter / illustrator / cover artist / poster artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 1978 Inkpot Award
• 1979 British Fantasy Awards
• 2011 Chesley Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
• 1980 Frank R Paul Award
• 2014 Chesley Award for Best Product Illustration
• 1979 Locus Award for Best Artist

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.borisjulie.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Vallejo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%9B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q377997

Tags

• Lima Department
• painter
• illustrator
• cover artist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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