Alexander Volkov was born in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia in 1960. He started painting with oil as a high school student. From the age of 7 to 17 he attended a special English school and in 1986 graduated from the Department of Physics at Leningrad State University. Following graduation Alexander worked as an animator at Leningrad Studio of Science Films and later as a stage artist in a small Leningrad theatre.
In 1981 he began to exhibit his paintings with a group of 200 Leningrad artists known as the "Brotherhood of Experimental Arts", a conglomeration of "underground" artgroups active in Leningrad at the time. Later, he joined a splinter group called "Ostrov" or "Island" which united 30 artists who felt that, ideologically their work was neither socialist realism nor extreme avant garde.
Since moving to the U.S. in 1990 he has worked as a teacher and exhibited his paintings in Princeton and Lambertville, New Jersey, New hope, Pennsylvania, Carmel, Laguna Beach and San-Francisco, California and Finland.
An Evening Conversation
Rainy Day
A Promise of Spring
Alice's Farewell
Distant Thunder
September Story
Interlude
The Old Guard
Aspen Light
Alone in the Desert
The Northern Venice
October Farewell
Maples
Returning Home
Park City Twilight
Secret Window
Brothers