Dechko Uzunov is a Bulgarian painter. He was born in 1899 in Kazanlak, where he was first pupil of Dimitar Chorbadjiyski – Chudomir. In 1919 he was accepted as a student at the State Indistrial Schoolof Arts (today National Academy of Arts) in the studio of Prof. Petko Klisurov. When the general training course ended in 1922, Uzunov and his fellow student Ivan Penkov went to Munich for specialization with Prof Carl von Maar. Upon his return to Bulgaria, he graduated from the Art Academy in 1924, in the studio of Professor Stefan Ivanov and learned by other masters of the brush – Tzano Todorov, Ivan Angelov, Nikola Marinov. From 1926 he worked as a painter at the Ministry of Education until 1932, when he began teaching painting at the Art Academy. He has been an invited professor since 1937 and regular since 1942 to 1963. Among his students are the artists Atanas Patzev, Georgi Baev, Kalina Taseva, Lika Yanko, Maria Stolarova, Svetlin Rusev. He has participated in almost all art exhibitions of the Bulgarian Art Society in Bulgaria and abroad (Belgrade, Pilsen, New York, Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Moscow, Yerevan, Hamburg, Vienna). He makes six solo exhibitions in Sofia and one in Kazanlak and Sliven. Abroad he has solo exhibitions in Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Moscow, Paris, Basel, Munich, Kuwait, Beijing. In 1925, he was one of the co-founders of the “Native Art” organisation. Member of the Rotary Club of 1935, Presiding the Union of Bulgarian Puppets in 1939-1940 and the Union of Bulgarian Artists between 1965 and 1969. Since 1973 he has been a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1973, 1976 and 1979 he became successively vice president, president and honorary president of the International Association of Plastic Arts. In 1976, he was invited to an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Arts, and in 1983 to the Russian Academy of Arts. 

He died on April 26, 1986.