Alexey Titarenko was born in St.Petersburg in 1962. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in both his beloved native city and in New York.

Titarenko joined the famous underground photo club “Mirror” in 1978. In 1983 he graduated from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at the Leningrad Academy of Culture. He organized the Ligovka - 99 exhibition space in 1989 and founded the Charitable Trust for the Development of Classical Music and Culture in 1995 (he remains a member of the board). Titarenko became a member of the Russian Union of Artists in 1997.

Titarenko has received numerous awards from institutions such as the Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in St.Petersburg;and the Mosaique program of the Luxemburg National Audiovisual Centre. He has participated in many International festivals, biennales and projects and has had more than 28 personal exhibitions both in Europe and the U.S.

His works are in the collections of major European and American museums, including The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg); the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art (USA); George Eastman House (Rochester, N.Y.); the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); the Museum of Fine Arts (Columbus, Ohio); the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); the Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego); the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College (Mass.); the European House of Photography (Paris); the Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona Beach, Fla.); the Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Arts (Cal.); the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (N.J.); the Reattu Museum of Fine Arts (Arles); and the Musée de l’Elysée Museum for Photography (Lausanne).

Major photo series include City of Shadows (1992-1994); Black and White Magic of St. Petersburg (1995-1997) and Time Standing Still (1998-1999).

Two monographs have been published about his work: Alexey Titarenko, Photographs: An Essay by Gabriel Bauret (YEAR); and City of Shadows: Alexey Titarenko, by Irina Tchmyreva (YEAR). In 2005, the French-German TV Channel ARTE produced a 30-minute documentary about him entitled “Alexey Titarenko: Art et la Maniere.”

The artist is represented exclusively by Nailya Alexander Gallery (24 W 57 Street #503 New York, NY 10019, 212-315-2211).