Alexander is a russian contemporary artist based in St. Petersburg. He is born in Leningrad in 1975 and begins to explore the art of photography in 1994 at the F.K.

In 1995, he enters for one semester the St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture in the film and photography department. Since then he has been working as a photographer at the Academy of Technology and Design and begins, since 1997, to be active in exhibition activities.

In 1998 he is the diploma winner of the Youth Interfoto contest.

He is invited by the City Hall of Paris, France, to the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2003, where the most promising artists from all around the world undergo an internship.

Since 2013, Chernogrivov collaborates with the school of analogue photography (Cabinet).

His artworks can be seen in different places around the globe : at the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosphoto (St. Petersburg), the State Museum “Tsarskoyer Selo Collection” (St. Petersburg), at the Tverskaya Oblastnaya Kartinnaya Galereya (Tver, Russia) or in private collections in Russia, Switzerland, France, United States of America or Israel.

He currently works as a free-lance photographer.

Alexander Chernogrivov works with the mixed-media of analogue photo-process. He calls his technique as "chimigramma" (artistic technique that consists in applying a chemical substance over a photosensitive surface) or "photomonotipy" (that consists in painting with typographic ink, oil painting or gouache or a non-porous surface such as photography).