Mark Tochilkin 

" His work also adresses the intellectual viewer, well-versed in pictorial metaphors of association and, while grotesque at times, this nevertheless express the beauty of the surrounding world. Overall, his works reveal a strong and ironic sense of humor. " Pr. Grigory Ostrovsky, Doctor of Arts criticism.

Born in Dniepropetrovsk (Ukraine) in 1958, he studied to the Institute of Arts, from 1973 until 1977, and then to the Academy of Arts of Vladivostok from1977 until 1983, where he graduated.