Born in 1970 in Nalchik. In 1989 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art College named after I. Shadr. In 1995 he graduated from the graphic department of the St. Petersburg Academic Institute of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture named after I. Repin (workshop of A.A. Pakhomov). In 1995 he did an internship at the Higher National School of Fine Arts in Paris: painting studio of prof. B. Piffaretti and engraving studio of prof. In 1995 he became a laureate of the competition dedicated to N. Poussin (organizers of the competition: National Museum of Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, LVMH company). In 2000 — scholarship holder of the Presidential Foundation in support of young cultural figures. Since 1990 he has taken part in more than 100 personal and joint exhibitions in Russia and abroad. His works are in private collections in Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, Holland, Russia, USA, France and Finland:
- CASE collection (USA), NJ collection (USA), Manege Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg)
- Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
- Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (New Jersey, USA) Municipal Arts Center (Wresse, Belgium)
- National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutsk). Museum of Contemporary Art (Sosnovy Bor)
- House-Museum of M.P. Musorgsky (Velikiye Luki)
- Benois Museum of the State Museum-Reserve «Peterhof»,
- Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
- Vologda State Museum of Fine Arts
Lives and works in Saint Petersburg.
