About the artist:

1941 born in Perm region to where his family was evacuated during the World War II from 1945 has lived and worked in Leningrad/St.Petersburg. He has received no education from state art schools At present a member and deputy chairman of the St.Petersburg Department of the International Federation of Artists SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1986 Museum of Unofficial Soviet Art in Jersey City, USA 1989 The Edward Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, USA 1992 Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege', St.Petersburg; -Mari-Therese Cochin Gallery, Paris, France 1996 State Hermitage, St.Petersburg GROUP EXHIBITIONS: from 1987 annual exhibitions of Petersburg artists in the Central Exhibition Hall 'Manege', St.Petersburg from 1991 annual exhibitions of Petersburg artists, Diagilev Art Centre, St.Petersburg 1990 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; -New Acquisitions, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg 1994-96 Self-Identification. Positions in St.Petersburg Art from 1970 until Today, Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, St.Petersburg, Copenhagen 1995 CGER Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; -From GULAG to Glasnost, University of New Jersey, USA; -Alexander Gleser Collection, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; -The Artist and The Poet, Memorial Flat of Alexander Pushkin, St.Petersburg COLLECTIONS: Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg Museum of the History of St.Petersburg, St.Petersburg Dostoyevsky Literary Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg Diagilev Art Centre, St.Petersburg AOK-Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany Mari-Therese Cochin Gallery, Paris, France Rutgers Museum, New Jersey, USA