Born in 1962 in Minsk, Soviet Union. Lives and works in Minsk, Belarus.

His recent works are mostly focused on text in its various forms, on virtual installations and real life objects and situations.

Represented by Liza Fetissova Gallery (ex-Russiantearoom gallery) since 2010.

His works are present in the following collections:

Public:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA; The Hasselblad Collection, Gothenburg, Sweden; The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland ; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhague, Denmark; Fotografiska Museet - Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Fotomuseum Muenchen, Munich, Germany; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; KIASMA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; The State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, Russia

Private:

William M. Hunt Collection Dancing Bear, New York, USA; Aad Speksnijder and Mrs. Speksnijder-Jansen, Rotterdam, Holland; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., New York, USA; Annette Martens, Rotterdam, Holland; Antti and Tiina Herlin, Kirkkonummi, Finland; Barbara Straka, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Christoph Schifferli, Zurich, Switzerland; Erik Lieber, Rotterdam, Holland; Fotofolio Collection, New York, USA; Gary Edwards, Washington, D.C., USA; Henry Mendelssohn Buhl, New York, USA; Jaime Sanford & Ted Storey, San Francisco, California, USA; Jan Bor, Amsterdam; JosephBaio, New York, USA; Joshua P. Smith, Washington, D.C.; Peter Herzog, Basel, Switzerland; Rainer Haarmann, Kiel, Germany; SUPREMUS Archive – Aleksandr Schumow, Zurich, Switzerland-Moscow, Russia; Tatiana Salzirn, Moscow; ; Wim Paling, Rotterdam, Holland; Wolf Erlbruch, Wuppertal, Germany

Some dates

1980 - Began scuba diving at Minsk School of Voluntary Society to Support Army, Air Forces and Navy with instructor Valery Burtsev.

1980-85 - Studied cibernetics and automatic control systems at the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics.

1985-91 - Worked as an engineer, Minsk.

1988-89 - Contacted Valery Lobko Creative Photography Studio in Minsk.

1990 - Received prize by Kodak-Pathe Foundation at Salon International de la Recherche Photographique, Royan, France.

1991 - First solo exhibition, Galleri Index/ Fotograficentrum, Stockholm. Artist working with photography.

1992 - Portfolio reviewer at FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA.

1994-95 - Started writing texts and prose.

1995 and 1996.- Guest teacher at Turku School of Art and Communication, Turku, Finland.

1997 - Declarative abandonment from creation of new photographic works.

1997-2006 - Artist in residence at: Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, (1997); Konstepidemin/ School of Photography and Film of Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, (1998); Kuenstlerhaus Boswil, Boswil, Switzerland, (1999); Villa Waldberta, Feldafing-Munich, Germany, (2000); Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, (2006).

2000 - Portfolio reviewer at Odense Photo Triennial, Odense, Denmark.

2001- First book of his prose "Nach Osten. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell" and art-object-book "Sergeyev's Temptation" .

2002 - One of his works has disappeared from a retrospecrive show of his photographs at Contemporary Art Museum (from 'Invisible' series), Minsk .

2003 - Resumed practicing scuba diving at Sea Pegas Diving Club, with instructor Andrey Likhachyov, PADI, Minsk .

2004 - First courses of technical scuba diving, with instructor Sergey Borisov, TDI, Hurghada, Egypt .

2005 - Certified as Adv Tx TDI diver with instructor Andrey Chistyakov; Trimix Deep Diving master-class with Chistyakov and diving with him to the depth of 192 meters, The Blue Hole, Dahab, Egypt.