Born January 11, 1938 in the village of Veshenskaya, a Cossack family. He studied at the Rostov art College named. M. B. Grekova, where he was repeatedly expelled. In 1973 Zhdanov moved to Moscow. He took an active part in the underground artistic life. Participated in the famous "Bulldozer exhibition". Alexander Zhdanov has been exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya. Became known in the West. In 1987 the artist and his wife, Galina Gerasimova chained himself to a tree at the gate of the American Embassy in Moscow. After this demarche, the government ordered them to leave the country. In 1987, Zhdanov emigrated first to Austria, then to the USA. After the emigration of the work of Zhdanov was shown at the famous exhibition "the Other art" at the Tretyakov gallery.
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