Born in Aktjubinsk, Russia

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

1972-77 Polygraphic Institute Moscow (painting and graphic art)
1977 first place citation for his Diploma, "Master of Fine Arts"
1978 member of the Association of Painters of Moscow
participates in numerous exhibitions of the Association of Painters and of nonconformist artists, Moscow
1985 moves to the West, lives currently in Germany, Spain and New York
1988-93 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1993 "Magister artium" of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (painting and graphic art)
Gold medal of the Academy (Fueger Gold Prize)

Solo Exhibitions

2012 "Glory of a New Century", Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, USA
2011 "Glory of a New Century", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 "Famous and Infamous", Albemarle Gallery, London
2010 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Palace Friedrichsruh, Germany
2008 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Château de Goulaine, Loire-Valley, France
2007 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Palace Sayn, Germany
2006 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis/California, USA
2005 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
La Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporeaneo della Reppublica de San Marino
2002 Freud`s Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2001 Galerie Eikelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 "The Myths of King Ludwig II of Bavaria", Novaja Akademija, St.Petersburg, Russia
1999 Computer-Panorama for the foyer of the King-Ludwig II- Musicaltheatre, Füssen, Germany
1999 Galeria Maria Salvat, Barcelona, Spain
1997 Italian Culture Institute, Berlin, Germany
1994-95 Stuart Levy Fine Arts, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions

2013 "Personal structures: Time, Space and Existence",
Palazzo Bembo, part of the official 55th Venice Biennale,
1 June - 24 November 2013
www.palazzobembo.org, www.personalstructures.org

"Born To Fly ... And Crawl, State Russian Museum St.Petersburg, Russia

2011 "Points of View", CUA Museum of the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
L`Arte Contemporaneo in Russia 1950 - 2011, Palazzo Caetani, Fondi, Italy

2010 "The Sky In Art", State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
10th International Biennial Of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, First Prize in the section painting for "Tropical Wesp"
"Polemically Small", Charlie Smith, London
"Heimat", Radierwerkstatt 30links and Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin

2009 "Born In The USSR - Russische Kunst aus Deutschland", Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
"Berliner Positionen", Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
"Krieg der Engel", Kunstverein Talstraße, Halle

2008 "Macht des Wassers", Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
"Contempahrt" (Kunst und Wein), Burgbrohl, Germany

2007 "I believe", Vinzavod Moscow, Special project of the II Moscow Biennale, curator Oleg Kulik
"Mailartissimo", A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications, St.Petersburg, Russia

2006 "Meditazione sulla Realta", Palazzo della Ragione, Mantova, Italy
"Times of change", Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

2005 "Bellum bellum", Galerie Sandmann, Berlin

2004 "Na kurort", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
"Gods becoming men", Frissiras Museum, Athenas, Greece

2003 "Remembrance - Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia", Yeshiva University Museum, New York (catalogue)
"Fiction of History", Museums Biennale, Krasnojarsk, Russia
"Foreign Visions", Foundation Starke/Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje/Macedonia (catalogue)
"Berlin-Berlin", German Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
"Naked before Gods", Parnu Museum of New Art, Parnu, Estonia

2002 "Shock and Show" - Festival of International Contemporary Art, Triest, Italy (catalogue)
"A brief history of collage and assemblage, Zimmerly Museum New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (catalogue)
"Artists of the Ideal", Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, (catalogue)

2001 "Between Earth And Heaven", Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium (catalogue)
2000 - 2001 "Jesus Christus", Russian State Museum Sankt Petersburg and theVatican Museum, San Marino (catalogue)

1999 "Play and Passion", Russian State Museum, Sankt Petersburg, Russia (catalogue)
"A 25 Year Retrospective on Nonconformist Russian Art - The Kolodzei Art Foundation" , Kennan Institute, Washington DC,USA and The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC (catalogue)

1998/99 „American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art“, Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA (catalogue)
1998 „Neo-Academism and Elektronic Art“, Novaja Akademija, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalogue)

1996 Permanent exhibition of the Norton Dodge Collection at the Zimmerly Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

1994 "Monumental propaganda", Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
"Ideal Landscapes", de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA
"Post World New Order: Restructured Myths", Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA

1976-85 participates in numerous exhibitions of the Association of nonconformist artists, Moscow

1976 "First exhibition of the avantgardists", Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow

Collections

Works in numerous international official and private collections.
Among them are:
Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Zimmerly Museum of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
La Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporeaneo della Reppublica de San Marino
Hofstra Museum Collection, Hofstra University Hempstead, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia
Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany
Freud`s Dreams Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Italian Culture Institute Berlin, Germany
Museum of European Art, Buffalo, New York, USA
Kolodzej Art Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA
Church of Cadaques, Spain
St.Georg-Church, Ulm, Germany
Ministery of Post and Communication, Ulm, Germany