Yuri
Aleksandrovich Zharkikh

1938 - was born in the city of Krasnodar Krai Tikhoretsk.

1950s, came to Leningrad

1967 - graduated from the Leningrad College of industrial arts. V. I. Mukhina.

After graduation worked for some time in the Altai. In the second half of the 1960s – early 1970s, tied to numerous travelers the "unofficial" artists of Leningrad and Moscow.

Together with E. by Rohini, O. Rabin and other Muscovites was one of the organizers and exhibitors of "Bulldozer" exhibition.

Participated in the first (after the "Bulldozer") allowed the exhibition of the Moscow "unofficial" in Izmailovsky Park on September 29, 1974 . together with V. Ovchinnikov, I. by Sinjavina,

E. by Rohini and V. Filimonov. Immediately after Zharkikh develops rapid organizational activity, resulting in the organizing Committee, which after lengthy negotiations with the authorities and the Board of the Leningrad Union of artists holds a four-day exhibition in DK. Gas. In the Wake of this success Zharkikh tried to make spontaneous movement of artists in the Association of experimental exhibitions (TEV), amounting to using the lawyers of its Charter (meant that the Partnership will be confirmed officially). At the initiative of the organizing Committee was able to hold the next major exhibition in DC "Nevsky". TEV did not last long.

1977 – the artist propose to leave the Soviet Union by foreign passport and not return. He emigrated to West Germany

1978 – asks for political asylum in France, gets it, and has long lived in Paris (until 1994)

Currently living and working in Carcassonne (France)

Hot – Exhibitor has more than 150 solo and group exhibitions in Paris, Bonn, new York, Zurich, London, Tokyo, Barcelona, Brussels, Monte Carlo and other cities. The works Hot with unmistakable deep author's individuality has evolved and continues to evolve under the powerful influence of the traditions of Russian avant-garde and German expressionism. Close to the "analytical realism" Pavel Filonov method allows the artist to him through the many strata of material to consider the true spirituality of peace, human.

The robots are:

Municipal Museum of modern art, Paris, France; Ministry of culture, France; Toulouse-Lautrec Museum, Albi, France; Museum of Russian nonconformist art. Paris, France; Collection of Ceres Franco, France; Museum "house Trouble", Germany; Zimmerli Museum, a collection of Dr. N. Dodge, new York, USA; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; national Museum of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia; Fund of culture of the USSR, Russia; Museum of nonconformist art, St. Petersburg, Russia; private collections in Russia and abroad.