Born on August 28, 1959 in the city of Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region. The path in the art began with a child's passion for drawing, which later developed into a professional vocation. In 1983, he graduated from the Faculty of Art and Graphics of the Nizhny Tagil State Pedagogical Institute and remained there to work, devoting five years to teaching at the Department of Painting. In 1990, he was accepted into the Union of Artists. Since 2006, he has been living in Moscow. Since 2009, he has been leading the Academy of the Master project, where he teaches students to see color as "sound" and its combinations as "chords." The artist's works are part of the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and many other museums and art institutions. Hundreds of his works are in private collections in Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Austria, and Finland.
