Master degree 1979-1983. Junior Artist, Junior Art College,
St. Petersburg, Russia.
1984-1989, in Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University.
1993-1997 - Bachelor degree in Film Directing, St. Petersburg
Institute of Cinematography and Television.
Modus operandi
To me art is a confession. All of my soul's emotions are in my
heart and blood - they move to my body's rhythm - and I choose
subjects as external interpretations of those feelings. I must be
as close to my subjects as possible; so close that I can eat them
or get inside them and thus almost all of my work is done as a
close-up. I arrange canvases in awkward sets in order to give the
feeling of my subjects in motion.