1970 - born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)

1986 - 1989 – graduated from the Leningrad Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
          (The Academy of Arts).

1991 - 1996 - lived in the USA

1999 - works with digital photography and video

2000 - works with classical black-and-white photography. Makes photographs and prints them by himself.

2001 - starts to use classical black-and-white print technologies and makes experiments with colouring

2006 – Betty and Jim Kasson award, USA

Lives in St. Petersburg

2007 - "Pictures for interiors", pop/off/art gallery, Moscow

2006 – "In the Artist’s studio", "One Work Gallery", Moscow

2006 – "Photography", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg

2005 - De Santos Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

2004 - "Selected works", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg

2003 - "Parables", central exhibition hall of Slovak Artists Union,
          within the frameworks of XIII International Festival of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia

1999 - "Amnesia", Art Manege, Moscow

1999 - "Painting as Improvisation", Parthenon Museum, Nashville, TN, USA

1998 - Vostochnaya Gallery / Seven Hills Gallery, Moscow

1996 - Krymsky Val Gallery, Moscow

1995 - Gallery 21, St . Petersburg

1993 - Metro Arts Commision Gallery, Nashville, TN, USA

Selected group exhibitions

2007 – International Art Fair "Cornice", pop/off/art gallery booth, Venice, Italy

2007 – International Art Fair "ART-ATHINA 2007", pop/off/art gallery booth, Athens, Greece

2007 - "Art-Moscow" 11 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery booth, Marina Gisich Gallery booth,
           Central House of Artists, Moscow

2006 - "Porno/facets" Pop/off/art gallery, Moscow

2006 - 10 th international art fair "Art-Moscow", Marina Gisich gallery, St. Petersburg; pop/off/art gallery,

2006 - International Auction of Modern Photography within the frameworks of XI International
           Photography Biennale FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA

          Auction Preview in The World Art Museum and Double Tree Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA

2006 - "No Eyes. Collection Dancing Bear", Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland

2006 - Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2006 - "Sans Regard, or No Eyes: Looking at", exhibition Collection Dancing Bear
          within the frameworks of International Photography Festival in Arles, France

2005 - "Collage in Russia. XX Century" State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg

2005 - 9 th international art fair "Art-Moscow", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg

2004 - 8 th international art fair "Art-Moscow", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg

2004 - participant of Meeting Place PhotoFest within the frameworks of X International
          Photography Biennale FotoFest, Houston, USA

2003 - "International Photo-Festival", Bratislava , Slovakia

2003 - "Autumn Photomarathon - from Petersburg to Moscow", Reflex Gallery, Moscow

2003 - "Photography and Cinema", within the frameworks of Autumn Photomaraphon, St. Petersburg

2000 - "Graphic Art from the Collection of the Irbit Art Museum", St. Peterburg

1998 - Art Manege, Moscow

1997 - "Filonov Cubed", Art Manege, Moscow

1997 - Spring Art Salon, Manege, Moscow

1996 - "Artopia" Festival, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

1996 - "200 years of Art in Tennessee", Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

1996 - Art Manege, Moscow

1991 - "Five Young Artists from Leningrad", ESEC Academy, Paris, France

Editions

ARCHEOLOGY
Works and commentary by Gregori Maiofis. Williams Bell Publishing, USA. 2001. ISBN 0-9712956-0-3

Educational work

2006 - Authors’ workshop within the frameworks of XI International Summer Photo School attached
          to Slovak House of Photography, Slovakia

2005 - Masterclass in International School of Photography "Baltic Photo School", St. Peterburg

Collections

Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas, USA)

Slovak National Gallery (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Ivanovo Regional Art Museum, Ivanovo, Russia

Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, Irbit, Russia

Kemerovo Regional Art Museum , Kemerovo , Russia

Kurgan Regional Art Museum, Kurgan, Russia

Kursk Regional Art Gallery n.a. Deineka, Kursk, Russia

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts n.a. Vrubel, Omsk, Russia

Penza Regional Art Gallery n.a. Savitsky, Penza, Russia

Sakhalin Art Museum, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk, Russia

Tula Museum of FineArt, Tula, Russia

Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia

”Dancing Bear” Collection, New York, USA

Collection of Joachim Paiva, Brasilia, Brazil

SG Private Banking Collection, Geneva, Switzerland

Alexander Smuzikov’s Collection, Moscow

Victor Bondarenko Collection, Moscow

Dmitry Kovalenko Collection, Moscow

Private collections in UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, France, Russia, and Switzerland .