Born in 1960 in Leningrad Graduated from Leningrad institute of cinema engineers (1982). Began to take photographs at the time. Photo club ,,Mirror" member(1985). The group “TAK” member(1987). A participant of art’s association ,”Photopostscriptum”(1993). The Association of Russian photo arts member(1995). S-Petersburg humanistic fund, ”Freeculture” member(1996). ”International Federation of artists” (IFA) member (1998). Chezhin is an organizer and a supervisor of the annual festival “Autumn Photo Marathon” (1998-2005). He is the Director of the gallery “PHOTOimage”. Today the artist is working like free-lance photographer.

CREDO

-Conceptual photography
-Unpredictable photography process
-Self-sufficiency of purely photographic ways of expression.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1987- Three Degrees of Freedom, ТАК Group, Leningrad, Russia.
1988- After Life, ТАК. Group, Leningrad, Russia.
1989- 150 Years of Photography, 50 ТАК Group, Moscow, Russia.
1990- Second Artificial Wind, ТАК Group, Daugovpils, Lithuania.
Cross Fertilization, ТАК Group, Leningrad, Russia.
First Exposition, Interfoto Gallery, Leningrad, Russia.
1991- Photo Manifesto. Photography of Perestroika, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore and Fine Arts Gallery, Long Island University.
TAK Photos, Theatre de Lhotel de Ville, Le Havre, France.
1992- Les Experiences photographiques Russe. (Mois de la Photo), Paris, France.
Group ТАК, Bild Galerie, Aarau, Switzerland.
PhotoFest, Houston, TX, USA.
1993- Photopostscriptum, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1994- Self-identification. The Art of St. Petersburg 1970-1990, Kiel, Berlin, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Sopot, Poland; St. Petersburg, Russia.
Art of Contemporary Photography from Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia.
1995- Russian Photo Art - 3, Gallery Teatro, Moscow, Russia.
Photoarcheology(Month of Photography), Bratislava, Slovakia.
The Latest Photo Art from Russia, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe, Hanover, Gerten, Germany.
1996- Point of Resistance, Museum of History of St. Petersburg, Russia.
IV St. Petersburg Biennial, Museum of History of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Russian Photographers Renewal and Metamorphosis from the Late Soviet Era to the 1990's, The M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, USA.
Exhibition of Experimental Art and Performance, Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia Collection in Context, Thread Waxing Space. New York, USA.
Pushkinskaya 10: Avant-garde from St. Petersburg, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA.
St.Petersburg Photoarheology, Kashirka Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Absurd Subject, Kseshinsky Mansion, St. Petersburg, Russia.
 Self-identification, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1997- Time Slipping Away. Fruits of Education, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg.
Russia Chronicles of Change, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, FL; Washington Center for Photography, Washington, D.C., USA.
Northern Dream (CD-ROM photo show), in the frame of the Festival "Salute, St. Petersburg!" at The World Financial Center, New York, USA.
1998- Tools as Art IV: Material Illusions, The Hechinger collection. The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
In Love/Once More, The House of Photography, Poprad, Slovakia.
Photographic Games, V St. Petersburg Biennial, Russia.
Aufbruch. Neue Russische Fotografie. Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany.
Strange Person. Strange Body. Navikula Artis, St.Petersburg, Russia.
Interfoto-98, Moscow, Russia.
Photographic Seminar, Bratislava, Slovakia.
1999-  ALIENATED ST. PETERBURG, City Art Center, Edinburgh.
NEVA -MISSISSIPPI, CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHY, pARTs Photographic Arts gallery, Minneapolis.
2000- MIART 2000, Fiera d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milano, Italy.
2001- Go Europe: The Kaleidoscopic Eye, Museum fur Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany.
2002- Abstract photograph, The Delta Gallery. St. Petersburg
Lines of a life The Gallery 103, The Culture Centre Pushkinskay-10, St. Petersburg.
Harmsiada, Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin.
Sailor’s dreams, The XXI Gallery, Prague.
Cathedral, The Delta Gallery, St. Petersburg.
Geometry of element is the element of Geometry, the Gallery at Obvodnom, the International Business Centre Neptune, St. Petersburg
Andrey Chezhin, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, USA.
2003 -The forty third, The Astrosoft Gallery, St.Petersburg.
The City-text,The Artcollege,Moscow.
Transformation of a sight, noname Gallery, Rotterdam.
Mostovaia Street. Isaak’s LightThe Delta Gallery, St. Petersburg.
Venice,Drawing room of Arts, The Palkin Restaurant, St.Petersburg.
Fish, The PhotoImage Gallery, St.Petersburg.
2004 - Hands, The  Fund of the artist  M. Shemjakin, St. Petersburg.
Nevsky Baptistry, FotoFest, Vine Street Studios, Houston, USA.
Thumbtacks and modernism, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA.
Self-Portrait 366 days, The Modern Russian History Museum, Moscow, Russia.
2005 - Drawing pin and modernism, The Yaroslavl Museum of Art, Yaroslavl.
Leningrad-a hero city, D. Semenov’s Gallery, St. Petersburg.
Esher space, The Moscow Architect’s House, Moscow.
To be continued, The International Information-Exhibition Centre
InfoSpace, Moscow.
The Petersburg art man-made-silver photo o­n a boundary of centuries, The Ars Magna Gallery, St. Petersburg.
Two Venices (with L.Chezhina), The Nonconformist Museum of Art, St.Petersburg.
Saint Regal Strastroterps, The Orthodox Fair, Manej Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg.
Collection of Obmilkov, The Soap Studio, The Bulthaup Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2006 - Thumbtacks and modernism, The Visual Arts Gallery, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, USA.
Meta order,(from The Studio of Creative thing), The Gatchina Reserve Musuem, Prioratsky Palace, St. Petersburg.
Between this and that, Madam Grand the beauty salon, St. Petersburg.
Lines of life. Anna Ahmatova, The Museum of Anna Ahmatova in Fontanny House, St. Petersburg.
4 in 1(together with D. Mishenin), The Ars Magna Gallery, St. Petersburg.

COLLECTIONS

Columbus Museum Of Art, Columbus, Oh, USA
Centrum Sztuki Wspoiczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
The Navigator Foundation, Boston, USA
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, USA
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum At Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Muzeo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
The Ermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Collection of Humanitarian Foundation "Free Culture", St. Petersburg, Russia
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA.
The Brooklyn Museum, NewYork, USA.
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano