Born in the city of Smolensk.
1980-Graduated from art-graphic faculty of the Smolensk state pedagogical Institute.
1980 participated in the work of the creative group of young artists in p. Desnogorsk.
1985 member of the Association of young artists and iskusstvoved at the Union of artists of the USSR.
1989 -1994 Artist of Smolensk artistic production workshops of the artists Fund of the RSFSR.
1993 Member of the artists Union of USSR ( since 1991 - member of Union of artists of Russia).
Exhibitions:
Since 1979, ucesnici regional art exhibitions in the city of Smolensk.
1981 Exhibition-report on results of work of creative group of young artists in p. Desnogorsk.
1983 Personal exhibition in the newspaper "Change", Smolensk.
1988 Exhibition of Smolensk artists in the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine).
1989 Exhibition of Smolensk artists in Vitebsk (Belarus).
1991 inter-Republican exhibition "Monuments of the Fatherland in the works of artists from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus", in Smolensk, Minsk.
1995 Personal exhibition in Berlin (Germany).
2000 all-Russia exhibition "to Your Name" , Moscow .
Overseas exhibition of Smolensk artists in Vitebsk (Republic of Belarus) .
2003 Regional exhibition "Artists of Central regions of Russia" , Lipetsk .
All-Russia exhibition "Heritage" , Voronezh .
2008 jubilee exhibition. Smolensk
The artworks Kozhevnikova, I. Yu., are in private collections in Russia, Poland, Germany, and France.
