Born in Lima, Peru, Boris attended the National School of Fine Arts in his native country before immigrating to the United States in 1964. He has since done a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house in the science fiction/fantasy industry. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising. Boris' mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is contemporary with today's Fantasy genre. For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters. 
 
Boris married Julie Bell in 1994 and they share their lives and their studio in Pennsylvania.