Silhouette No. 26. 2014

Born in 1961 in Minsk. In 1984, he graduated from the Republican Boarding School for Music and Fine Arts (now the Akhremchik Gymnasium-College of Art). In 1992, he graduated from the Belarusian State Theatre and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts), Department of Monumental and Decorative Arts, under the tutelage of Gavriil Vashchenko. Following his graduation, he was invited for a six-month internship in Hanover, Germany—a trip he still considers a defining moment in his career.