Growing up in the family of the St. Petersburg artist Dmitry Lvovich Goncharenko (1924-2011), I never doubted that I would be an artist. In 1968, at the age of 13, I became a resident of the Art Studio at the St. Petersburg Hermitage. I was particularly impressed by the works of Nathan Altman, Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Natalia Goncharova, and Aristarchus Lentulov. This experience changed me profoundly. My exposure to Russian avant-garde artists in the Hermitage inspired the geometric style of my art.
My spiritual teachers are Russian avant-garde artists.

TODAY I am completely immersed in the creative process, constantly experimenting with new materials and technologies. Making art makes me happy.

The OBJECT of MY ART is reflection through emotion on vivid political, technological, and cultural events.

MEDIA: drawing, painting, mosaic, ceramics, sculpture, installation, video art, art objects, photography, music, performance.

Since 2013, I have been using sheets of colored cardboard, glued at an angle, as the material for my graphic compositions. It has become part of my recognizable style.

MY ART PROCESS is essential for me. By immersing myself in it, I escape from all my earthly problems. In my subconscious, pacifism steadily blocks everything negative. During moments of creativity, I turn off my left brain. I listen to ambient music and go into a state of meditation, in which my subconscious is completely released, and the creative process becomes the trigger for the creative act.

MY ART PROCESS always begins with creating a preliminary sketch, where I define for myself an image of my future work. Then I design a structure that harmonizes with a geometric object, the center of which is very important. This design immediately calls for color. And this process does not let me go until it is in final harmony and complete.

EDUCATION. I owe my early artistic experience to my father. After the death of my mother, Tatyana Andreyevna Nikolaeva (1927-1962), my father and I became very close. He always took me with him to the studio at the Factory of Decorative and Applied Arts, where he constantly worked on commissioned projects, and I made ceramic objects.
After graduating from high school, I received a private art education. My teachers were the architect Stepan Grigoryevich Stepanyan; Professor of the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting Sergey Stepanovich Fedorov; and, Professor and honored artist of the RSFSR, Sergey Mitrofanovich Godyna.

I started my professional career at the Moscow Monumental and Decorative Art complex. During 1975-1994, along with Viktor B.Elkonin (apprentice of Vladimir A.Favorsky and Lev A.Bruni), Yuri Y.Libhaber, Boris P.Milyukov and my father Dmitry Goncharenko, I created interior and exterior design projects for industrial and public buildings in the cities of the former USSR. In this period, I authored or co-authored a number of mosaic and ceramic panels, stained-glass windows and other objects in the Soviet style of monumental-decorative art (including ceramic panels in the Polyanka Moscow metro station lobby; mosaic panels in the restaurant of the Moscow hotel in Sochi; mosaics, ceramics and paintings made in the national style at the Tajikistan, Moscow Cinema, to name a few). Unfortunately, many works made at the Art complex were destroyed by vandalism and non-compliance with copyright protection laws of the USSR.

From 1990 to 1999 I created a series of art objects dedicated to the Russian Avant-Garde movement as part of the “LE DROIT DE RÊVER” project, supported by philanthropist and art collector Wilhelm Otten and curated by Vitaly Patsukov. This work resulted in three personal exhibitions held in Europe in 1998-1999. During this time, I discovered and refined my artistic style, which I call Techno-Pangeometry.

Series of art objects and a series of graphic works created as part of this project, remained in the private collection of Wilhelm Otten.

In 1999, I received a referral from the Moscow Union of Artists for 3 months residency with the creative group of ceramic artists at The Gzhel Experimental Ceramic Factory. During this period, I designed vases for Ikebana florists. In finishing the project, an exhibition was held, as a result of which the plant management accepted me as an artist - ceramic designer.

In 1999-2002, at the ceramic factory, I experimented with the factory’s glazes and created my own unique method, reminiscent of expressive painting, which was used in mass production. I also created a number of original ceramic pieces, including a series of 12 original ceramic vases for Sogetsu floral compositions, tea set in the Russian Avant-garde style, and other ceramic sculptures.

In 2022, after personal exhibitions, art objects of the “LE DROIT DE RÊVER” project and my ceramics entered the collections of the Saratov State Radischev Art Museum and the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum.