Born in Leningrad in 1943. In 1959. visited the American exhibition in Sokolniki, where he first became acquainted with abstract art. In 1968 he graduated from the Leningrad electrotechnical Institute of communications. In 1971. met a non-conformist artists Alexander Leonov and Dmitry Plavinsky, Sergei Bordachev and Vyacheslav Kalinin. In 1975 participated in the exhibition "Painting, Sculpture and Graphics," d/K "Nevsky", Leningrad, 1976. – shares of the Leningrad nonconformist artists "Exhibition at the Peter and Paul fortress" in protest against the prohibition of exhibitions of abstract art. In 1987. became a member of the Association of experimental fine arts, and in 1991. a member of the Association of Russian artists in Paris. Since 1996. member of "Creative Union of artists of Russia".
Works are in State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; the national Museum. A. S. Pushkin, St.-Petersburg; the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; Russian Cultural Fund, Moscow; the Humanitarian Fund "Free Culture"; the Art gallery to them. Igor Savitskiy, Penza; the Museum of modern art, Moscow; the State Dresden gallery, Germany; Zimmerly Museum of Rutgers University (meeting N.Dodge), USA; meeting Bar-Gera, Cologne, Germany; the collection of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, the Fund Tatiana and Natalia Kolodzei.
Personal exhibitions:
1978 – "Leonid Borisov. Solo exhibition" House of culture. N. Krupskaya Leningrad
1994 – "Cubism" at "Gallery 21", Saint-Petersburg
1995 – "Geometry" in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1998 –"Lessons of geometry", ROSIZO gallery, Moscow
1999 – "Dedicated to Malevich" at the Center for contemporary art, Saint Petersburg
2001 – "Dada strain" in the Moscow Museum of modern art
2001 – "Black nights" in the gallery "Point", St. Petersburg
2005 – "Leonid Borisov. Painting, object sculpture" at the Central house of artists, Moscow
2005 – "Italy. Switzerland. Pictures" in the gallery "CINEMA-PH", Saint Petersburg
2005 – "Concrete art" in the gallery "CINEMA", Moscow
2006 – "People of Malevich's" gallery "Borey" (with the support of the NCCA), St. Petersburg
2007 – "LIVE-SEE" in the Tyumen regional Museum of fine arts and Tobolsk state historical-archival Museum-reserve
2007 – "the Game" in the gallery "Atelier № 2" (in the art center Vinzavod), Moscow
Group exhibitions:
1975 – "Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics" d/K "Nevsky", Leningrad
1976 – "Painting. Graphics. Object" d/to them. S. Ordzhonikidze, Leningrad
1978 – "New art from Soviet Union" (collection of N. Dodge), Washington, Ithaca, new York, USA
1979-80 Annual exhibition of Leningrad artists
1981 – "the Leningrad artists", Tartu (Estonia)
1983 – "the Leningrad artists", Alexandria (USA)
1984 "Exhibition of 14" at the Leningrad Palace of youth
1988 "Geometry in art", Moscow
1988 – "the Cube" in the House of the Union of artists, Leningrad
1988 – "Labyrinth" Moscow youth Palace
1988 – "40 artists" (collection of V. Tarasov), Vilnius (Latvia)
1988 – "Express avant-garde"in the exhibition hall of the Soviet Culture Fund, Moscow
1988 – "Contemporary art of Leningrad" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", Leningrad
1988 – "New Russian", Warsaw (Poland)
1989 – "From unofficial art to perestroika" in the exhibition complex in the Harbour, Leningrad
1989 – "The Cube", Helsinki (Finland)
1989 – "the Kolodzei Collection" at the State Institute of fine arts, Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
1990 – "Scientific-technical progress and art" the Central house of artists, Moscow
1990 – "III exhibition of gifts to Soviet culture Fund" in the exhibition hall of the Soviet culture Fund, Moscow
1990 – "I Biennale of newest art" in the exhibition hall of the Kalinin district, Leningrad
1990 – "the keepers of the fire" in the gallery "Fisher", University of California (USA)
1991 – "Contemporary artists - to Malevich" in the Tretyakov gallery, Moscow
1991 – "crazy" Sovincenter, Moscow
1991 – "Big pointy triangle" (to the 125th anniversary of Kandinsky) in the exhibition hall, Kuntsevo, Moscow
1991 – "St. Petersburg. Art-91", Porva (Finland)
1992 – "In the direction of Malevich", Vienna (Austria)
1992 – "Modern art gallery "Anna" in the arts Centre in Bruges (Belgium)
1992 – "Closet" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1993 – "the History of unofficial art in Leningrad - St. Petersburg" at the State Museum of history of St. Petersburg
1993 – "Petersburg-93 in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1993 – "From the Pleistocene to the Holocene" at the paleontology Museum, Moscow
1993 – "Carnival" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1994 – "III Biennale of St. Petersburg" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1994 – "Petersburg-94" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1994 – "knigomania" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1994 – "spinning, Spinning" (kinetic art) in the Cinema center, Moscow
1995 – "the Shadow of the poet" in the Russian Museum. A. S. Pushkin, Saint Petersburg
1995 – "Petersburg-95" in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
1996 – "Contemporary experimental art" in the Central exhibition hall"Manege", St. Petersburg
1996 – "the Circle" in the exhibition hall of the Union of museums of Leningrad region
1996 – "Nonconformists" (a collection of Bar-Gera) in the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; the State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow; Institute. Staedel and the city gallery, Frankfurt am main (Germany)
1996-97 – "contemporary art Department: the first five years" at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1997 – "Nonconformists" (a collection of Bar-Gera) in the Bayerisches Kulturhaus Leverkusen, (Germany)
1997 – "the Square" at the Museum of Josef Albers, Bottrop (Germany)
1997 – "Russian constructivist started: concern for the present", Washington (USA)
1997 – "Different times" in the gallery "Art from the barn", bad Homburg (Germany)
1998 – "Acquisitions and gifts: 1988-1998", the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1999 – "Contemporary Russian photography", Minneapolis (USA)
2000 – "three Hundred years of Russian painting" in the Samara art Museum
2002 – "Wood sculpture" in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2002 – "Two" at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2003 – "wild Pets" in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2004 – "Kandinsky and Russian soul" (from the collection of the State Russian Museum), Verona (Italy)
2004 – "the Academy of porcelain" in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg
2004 – "Festival of independent art" (the 30th anniversary of nonconformists exhibition ' in d/Gas) in the Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
2005 – "the Nonconformists. Collection Of Bar-Gera", Bern (Switzerland)
2005 – Exhibition of new acquisitions at the Museum of nonconformist art, art centre "Free culture", Saint Petersburg
2005 – Exhibition of contemporary sculpture "АRTПОЛЕ" in Gorki-10 (Moscow)
2005 – "Portrait person" in the modern art Center Mars (a joint project of the NCCA Mars and galleries of Marat Guelman), Moscow
2005 – "Two design" at the design gallery "Bulthaup center", Saint-Petersburg
2005-06 – "Collage in Russia. XX century", in the Benois wing of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2005-06 – "From art to mail art" ("Mailartissimo"), in the Central Museum of communications im. A. S. Popov, Saint-Petersburg
2006 – "time for a change. Soviet art 1960-1985" at the Benois wing of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2006 – "Day of memory of Kazimir Malevich" in Nemchinovka, Moscow region
2006 – "ART MOSCOW" Central house of artists, Moscow
2006 – "International neo-constructivism" (from the collection of the Mobile MADI (Budapest, Hungary) in Moscow Museum of modern art, Moscow
2006 – "Twelve letters to Rembrandt" gallery, Saint Petersburg
2006-07 – "East - a delicate matter" in the gallery "New Hermitage", Moscow
2007 – "All Petersburg" at Central exhibition hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
2007 – "Architecture: ad magdim" in the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2007 – "New ideas for the city" at the Museum of the city's architecture, Saint-Petersburg
2007 – "the adventures of "Black square" Kazimir Malevich" in the Benois wing of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2007 – "New angelarium", Moscow Museum of modern art
