Artist, Doctor of Art History (since 1998).
Born in 1960 in Kharkiv.
Graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering (1978–83), where he studied under O. Tits, O. Buriak, V. Kulykov, and V. Kravets, and completed postgraduate studies at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics (Moscow) under the supervision of S. Khan-Magomedov.
Member of the Kharkiv branch of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1992 and the Creative Union of Art Historians and Art Critics of the CIS countries since 1992.
Participant in republican, nationwide Ukrainian, and international exhibitions since 1990.
Author of approximately 100 scholarly and art-critical works in the field of art history.