- 1977-82 Studied Art & Graphics at Lenin's Institute of Pedagogy, Moscow.

- 1978-798 Worked with I. Lutz.

- 1980-84 Worked with V. Skersis.

- 1982 Worked with N. Stopolskaya.

- Member of The AVANT-GARDISTS Club.

1978 - 1979: private apartments, Moscow: several individual & group presentations.

1982: APT-ART Gallery, Moscow: Inaugural presentation // Kalistovo, Moscow: In the Woods & in the Fields.

1983: APT-ART Gallery, Moscow: Victory over the Sun // Newark, N. J., USA: Come yesterday & You'll be 1st // Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, NYC, USA // Tarasovka, Moscow: Behind the Fence - an APT-ART Group presentation // APT-ART Gallery, Moscow: SZ (V. Skersis & V. Zakahrov (# 60) // Malta Embassy, Moscow: Oh, Malta !

1984: Various workshops, Moscow: SZ Group - itinerant exhibits (up to 6 months) // APT-ART Gallery, Moscow: Far Away Countries.

1985: Triback, Washington, D.C., USA: an APT-ART Group presentation.

1986: Bitza Park, Moscow: Art against Commerce // Kuznetsky Bridge, Moscow: Young Moscow Artists - 17th presentation by Soviet Artists Union (SAU).

1987: Vostochnaya, Moscow: The Avant-Gardists Club 1st presentation // Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, Ill., USA: Direct from Moscow ! // Ermitage Group, Moscow: Visual Representation of Culture // Manezh, Moscow: Moscow Artists Retrospective 1957 - 1987 // Moscow: Cubist Expo an Avant-Gardists Club presentation.

1988: Kunst Museum, Bern, Switzerland: Ich lebe, Ich sehe (i.e. I live, I see) // Sanduni Baths, Moscow: an Avant-Gardi'sts Club presentation // Sotheby's, Moscow: Avant-Garde of the 1920's & of the 1980's - auction sale // Ludwig Museum, Köln, then Stadtische Museums of Münster & Bielefeld, West Germany: Sowjet Kunst Heute (i.e. Soviet Art today) // Galerie de France, Paris, France: 8 Artistes Soviétiques - a Sigma Foundation presentation // DAAD, East Berlin : Iskunstvo.

1989: Kunst Verein, Freiburg a/Brisgau, W. Germany // Pakesh Gallery, Vienna, Austria // Sophia Ungers Gallery, W. Germany: Young Art from Moscow // MAM, Fort Worth, Texas, USA: 10 + 10, subsequently shown at MOMA, San Francisco, Calif., A. Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., & Washington D.C.,USA // Kunst Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland: Von der Revoluzion zu der Perestroïka (i.e. From Revolution to Perestroïka) // Mucsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary : 7 Artists from Moscow // Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, Austria : Moskau - Wien - New-York // Barbican Art Gallery, London, U. K.: 100 Years of Russian Art // Warsaw, Poland: Furmanny Zaulek.

1990: Museo Prato, Tuscany, Italy: Artisti Russi Contemporani.

Comment:

The artist has long illustrated the myth of the Cyclops, as well as other legendary adventurous lives. He later turned to medias such as tiles, ceramics & linoleum.