Studied at Leningrad Art College (1966–1972); the Repin Institute of Arts (1972–1978) in the Faculty of Graphic Art under V. A. Vetrogonsky. Exhibited from 1971. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1986), the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1996). Taught at Leningrad Art College (1977–1989), the Repin Institute of Arts (1989– 1990), University of Washington in Seattle, USA (1989–1990), Reed College in Portland, USA (1989–1990) and St Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design (1997–2000, 2002–2018). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), Museum of Nonconformist Art, National Library of Russia, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Russian Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Kazan, Magnitogorsk, Novosibirsk, Petrozavodsk, Ryazan, Sosnovy Bor, Tver; Kadriorg Art Museum (Tallinn, Estonia), Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, USA).

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