Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko (1932 - 1988) was born in Kherson, and since 1937 he lived in Leningrad. He spent the war years in evacuation in Semipalatinsk. He studied at the Scandinavian department of the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages ​​(1951-1954), in the workshop of N. Akimov at the Theater Institute (1954-1958). He worked as a graphic designer at the Combine of Decorative and Applied Arts of the Leningrad Branch of the Artistic Fund. The leader of the older generation of the Leningrad underground, was friends with A. Kondratov, Yu. Filatov, L. Aronzon, V. Alfonsov, A. Altshuller, A. Knaifel. Since 1956, one of the first in the USSR began to work in an abstract-expressionist manner. He created the original aesthetics of spontaneous painting, inventing technical possibilities for the emergence of an image uncontrolled by the artist. He is rightfully considered one of the brightest Russian nonconformist artists of the 20th century. Member of the Association of Experimental Visual Arts (1981). Graphic and pictorial works by Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko are currently in the collections of the Pompidou Center (Paris, France), the Zimmerli Museum (New Jersey, USA), the State Hermitage Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum Aslan Chekhoev, a number of regional museums in Russia, numerous private collections in Russia and abroad. Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in the largest museums - in the State Russian Museum (2000), the Zimmerli Museum (2001), the New Museum (2010). He died in Leningrad in 1988.