Born in Moscow in 1954. Since 1966. studied at Children's art school, Krasnaya Presnya. In 1971 76гг. – at the Moscow polygraphic Institute. In 1979. he joined the Moscow branch of Union of artists of the USSR. In 2004. awarded "Master".
Works are in State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; State Museum of fine arts named after Pushkin, Moscow; the Moscow Museum of modern art; City art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of contemporary art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; the City Museum of Warsaw, Poland; the Museum of contemporary art in Trento and Rovereto, Italy; and also in other museums and collections in Russia and other countries.
Selected solo exhibitions:
1986 – House of architects, Moscow;
1989 – "Holidays", Raab Gallery, London, England;
1990 – Gallery 369, Edinburgh, Scotland;
1991 – Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland;
1992 – Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden;
1994 – "Elements", Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden;
1995 – "Irkin house", gallery "Roza Azora", Moscow;
1996 – “Russian Retablos”, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden;
1998 – "the Chapel and around", Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland;
1998 – "the Pill", gallery "Manege", Moscow;
1999 – Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland;
2000 – gallery "Mitki-VHUTEMAS", St. Petersburg;
2001 – Egg, London, England;
2002 – "Neglinka lost", gallery "Ulitsa OGI", Moscow;
2003 – "Experiments", the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg;
2004 – Russian gallery, Tallinn, Estonia;
2005 – Leilas Shop, London, England;
2005 – Fondazione Orestiadi, The Ghibelline, Italy;
2005 – "Painting on metal", Matthew Bown Gallery, London, England;
2006 – "I. Z. Klassiki", State Museum of architecture im. Schuseva, Moscow;
2006 – "Two of sundress", Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland;
2007 – "People and animals", Nina of lumer Galleria, Milan, Italy;
2008 – "the Fourth Siberia", gallery "Proun", Moscow;
2008 – "Twenty years later", Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland.