Alekhin, Andrey

·Born on April 3, 1962 in Kirovograd, Russia (Ural Region)

 ·Family moved to Rybinsk and entered the Rybinsk Art School in 1969

·Studied education as part of the Art Faculty of the Kostroma Pedagogical Institute, 1975-84

·First exhibited in 1983 at the Kostroma Pedagogical Institute

·Accepted into the artists’ union in 1991

·Participant in the 1991 exhibition at the Moscow Central Artists’ House

·One-man exhibit in Switzerland in 1999

·Participant in numerous exhibitions of the Russian Federation’s Union of Artists since 2000

·Currently resides in Kostroma where he works and gives private painting lessons

·Alekhin began showing at Gallery Russia, Scottsdale, in late 2005