Marinčo Kocalev

Marinčo Kocalev (born February 2, 1958) is a Macedonian fine artist born in Stip, Macedonia. He worked as a high school professor of fine art for several Stip based high schools for over 16 years before he moved to Toronto, Canada along with his family in late 1999, where he currently resides. He has painted portraits of many of the mayors of Stip, Macedonia. He has also painted former Macedonian president Kiro Gligorov as well as the Archibishop of Macedonia Stefan, and several wealthy businessmen around the country, as well as a painting of Goce Delcev which is hung above the Mayor's desk in his office in Stip. Upon expanding his knowledge in fine arts through the 1970s when he was studying fine arts as well as attending the Univeristy of Fine Arts in Skopje, he travelled around Europe in places such as France, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Greece, Croatia, Germany, Hungary and other places. He is also a 2nd dan in Shotokan Karate and attended the military during Tito's rule of Yugoslavia.