He was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1960. He finished Theatre College in Nizhny Novgorod.
He finished Saint-Petersburg State Academic Institute of painting sculpture and architecture named by Repin (the workshop of Reihet). The Member of the Union of Russian Artists since 1997. The participant of exhibitions in Paris, London, Shanghai, Hamburg, Leon, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg.
Andrey Smirnov is the Member of the Union of Russian Artists, one of the most familiar and excellent painters in Russia.
In 2015 at the end of collective exhibition “Tenth Muse” in the National Museum of Baden – Baden conducted by the support of Russian – Austrian cultural fund, the Museum’s Direction asked to present the artist’s painting as a gift for the museum’s collection.
| Personal exhibitions: | |
| 2000 | The blue sitting room of the Union of Artists, Saint-Petersburg; |
| Lyon, Paris, France; | |
| 1998-2002 | Summer garden, Saint-Petersburg; |
| 2003 | Hamburg, Germany; |
| 2004 | Tretyakov’s gallery, Saint-Petersburg; |
| the gallery “Astrosoft”, Saint-Petersburg; | |
| 2005 | “White dress”, the gallery “S.P.A.S.”, Saint-Petersburg; |
| Group exhibitions: | |
| 1997-2005 | The Union of Artists ( Leningrad Organization of the Union of Artists), Saint-Petersburg ; |
| 1997 | Jubilee exhibitions of the Union of Artists in the central exhibition hall “Manezh”, Saint-Petersburg; |
| 2003 | Jubilee exhibitions of the Union of Artists in the central exhibition hall “Manezh”, Saint-Petersburg; |
| 2005 | Art Manezh, The Exhibition Hall “Manezh”, Moscow; |
| “The exhibition of Petersburg Artists”, The Museum Geelvink Hinlopen Huis (the gallery “S.P.A.S.”) Amsterdam, Netherlands; | |
| “Saint-Petersburg Artists”, The exhibition of the gallery “S.P.A.S.”, De Veik, Netherlands; | |
| 2006 | The exhibition of the gallery “S.P.A.S.”, Bordeaux, France; |
| The exhibition of the gallery “S.P.A.S.”, The Museum Geelvink Hinlopen Huls, Amsterdam, Holland; | |
| 2010 | “Modern romantics” , the gallery “S.P.A.S.” at the open Art Fair in Utrecht, Netherlands; |
| «From Russia with love”, the exhibition of the gallery “S.P.A.S.”, Florence, Italy; | |
| 2011 | The gallery “S.P.A.S.” At the Fair “Art & Antiques in The Hague, Netherlands. |