Bio

Born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR (part of USSR in 1969), Andrey grew up in Simferopol and a small city near Leningrad.  He studied arts at the Leningrad V.A. Serov Art school and Russian Academy of Arts, during the Soviet Era of Stagnation and Perestroika.

After the collapse of the USSR, Andrey began his professional career and commercial activity as a teacher and nonconformist artist and designer.  As an artist-in-residence at the famous nonconformist Art-Centre "Pushkinskaya -10", he organised and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad.  Since 2012 Andrey has made political satire musical videos including Alexey Navalny's "Anti-Putin video challenge" and Pussy Riot's Imprisonment amongst more, as a personal reaction to the political situation in Russia.    

In 2014 after Crimea's annexation, and war began, Andrey left Russia and has since lived and worked in Prague as motion, graphic designer, and political satire cartoonist for the RFERL's Currenttime.tv.  His political cartoons went viral in Russia, Ukraine, and post-soviet territories, and in 2015 he received the Communicator Award of Distinction for his video animation work titled “And Now We Win” chronicling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launch of “Novorossiya” (an expansionist campaign for Russia).  After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Andrey stopped spending time on political satire, deeming it “useless at that point in time”. 

Andrey’s paintings and drawings are in Museums and private collections, such as the Erarta art museum and the Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art gallery at the US Zimmerli Art Museum. 

Andrey continues to work on numerous projects as a visual effects artist, while trying to dedicate more time to his personal paintings.  More recently his work experimenting with animation to bring Van Gogh’s work to life in three dimensions has caught the attention of distinguished curators and art audiences from across the world.