Aleksei Sundukov was born in 1952 in a settlement in Kuibyshev region. He graduated from the Savitsky School of Art in Penza in 1977 and the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry (formerly the Stroganov Institute) in 1982. He joined the Union of Artists in 1986 and received fame after the Seventh Youth Exhibit in Moscow in 1988, where his paintings were noted by critics and the press.
In subsequent years he has participated in most exhibitions of alternative art, including the Labyrinth exhibit in Hamburg, Germany, and the 10 + 10 exhibit held at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. The artist’s images become a model of the canonical representations of Soviet culture, its degradation and irreversible changes. In the 1990s they go beyond the concrete boundaries of time and space and take on universal character and meaning, creating a special type of «social cosmos».
Sundukov’s work is currently represented in many museums and private collections in Europe and the United States. He lives and works in Moscow and New York City.
