Boris Sheynes

Boris Isaakovich Sheynes was born in 1935. He is a graphic artist, book illustrator, and a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

He studied at the Moscow Polytechnic Institute of Printing named after Ivan Fyodorov. Since 1954, he worked as an illustrator and designer for leading Moscow publishing houses. From 1955 onward, he focused on book illustration and has illustrated more than 100 works by Russian and foreign authors. He received several honorary diplomas at international book fairs. Between the 1960s and 1980s, he worked extensively in the fields of lithography and drawing.
In April 1985, he left the USSR. He lived in Italy (1985–1986), and in 1986 held a solo exhibition in the Netherlands. In December 1986, he moved to the United States and settled in Chicago.