born in Kiev in 1952.

graduated from the Kiev Academy of Fine Arts in 1977, before completing an art workshop course at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1988.

collections

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
The State Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg
The Sevastopol Art Museum
The National Art Museum of Ukraine (Kiev)
The Khmelnitsky State Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Alpha Qubic Gallery,Japan
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Norton Dodge Museum, USA
The Walter Bischoff Modern Art Collections, Stuttgart, Germany
The Collections of the UNICEF Children's Foundation,
The Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
The ARTSTORY Gallery of Modern Art, Moscow
Private collections in Japan, the US, and Europe.