Yoan Leviev was born on October 31, 1934 in Plovdiv. In 1958 he graduated in Monumental and Decorative Painting and Mosaic Art at the Academy of Arts in the class of Prof. Georgi Bogdanov. He worked in the fields of monumental and decorative mural art, sgraffito and mosaic, scenography, easel painting and illustration. He participated in Plovdiv regional exhibitions, in the youth biennials in Paris (1961, 1963), Szczecin (1965) and in the collective art exhibitions of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, as well as in representative exhibitions of Bulgarian art abroad. He displayed his work in solo exhibitions in Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Moscow, Bucharest, Budapest, Mexico, Tokyo, Los Angeles, etc. Leviev was a member of the innovative Plovdiv art collective of the 1960s, a group that also included Encho Pironkov, Georgi Bozhilov, Dimitar Kirov, Kolyu Vitkovski, Hristo Stefanov, and Georgi Boyadzhiev, known as the “April Generation”. He worked on the scenography of numerous opera and ballet productions. Works by Yoan Leviev are in the possession of a number of national and foreign galleries and private collections. Yoan Leviev passed away in 1994.