
Rayko Nikolov Aleksiev was a Bulgarian painter, caricaturist, and writer of feuilletons. He established Shturets, a hugely successful satirical newspaper, in 1932.

Mylèna Atanassova born in Bulgaria in Sofia, more usually called Mylène Atanassova, is a designer and a painter.
Nikolay Diulgheroff was a Bulgarian artist, designer and architect who was active in Italy as a prominent representative of interwar Italian Futurism.

Rumen Gasharov is a Bulgarian painter. His works have been exhibited internationally, including in 20 independent exhibitions in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, England, Germany, and elsewhere. Gasharov entered the newly created National Arts School of Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951, and in 1962 graduated from the Bulgarian National Academy of Arts under professor Iliya Petrov.

Oda Jaune is a Bulgarian painter.

Ivan Kirkov was a Bulgarian painter and illustrator. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia.

Nadezhda Kouteva is a Bulgarian artist with over ten awards in her career. Born in Sofia, Kouteva graduated in Mural Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts “N. Pavlovich”, Sofia in 1971. Ten years later, Kouteva received a full scholarship at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C..

Ida Ivanka Kubler is an international artist based in New York.

Ivan Milev Lalev was a Bulgarian painter and scenographer regarded as the founder of the Bulgarian Secession and a representative of Bulgarian modernism, combining symbolism, Art Nouveau and expressionism in his work.

Ivan Mrkvička was a Czech-born painter and an active contributor to the artistic life of newly liberated Bulgaria in the late 19th and early 20th century. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern Bulgarian fine art tradition.

Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals.

Joseph Sebastian Oberbauer was an Austrian and Bulgarian painter and engineer.

Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen. His most frequent subject was women, depicted in casual poses, usually nude or partly dressed.

Antoni Piotrowski was a Polish Romanticist and realist painter who worked as war correspondent and illustrator for various Western European weeklies and periodicals in late-19th century during the Liberation of Bulgaria.

Stephen Sacklarian (1899–1983) was an Armenian American painter and sculptor of Bulgarian Armenian descent. Although Sacklarian never formally subscribed to any official art movement, critics consider his paintings to be a blend of Modern and Abstract Expressionist, with elements of Cubism.

Yanko Tihov is an award-winning British and Bulgarian painter and printmaker.

Hristofor Žefarović was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of early pan-South Slavism.

Dimitar Hristov, better known as Dimitar Zograf (1796–1860), was a noted 19th-century Bulgarian painter known for his icons.