Alexei Shulgin was born in 1963 in Moscow. He graduated in Cybernetics of Metallurgical Processes from Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys. He is the founder of the Immediate Photography Group (1987). Beginning in 1997, he was one of the first people in Russian making Internet art. In 1998, he founded the cyberpunk rock group 386 DX. In 2004, together with Aristarkh Chernyshev, he created the project Electroboutique. Selected solo exhibitions: Televisions, XL Gallery, Moscow (1994); Beauty Inside, XL Gallery, Moscow (2005); Montage, Moscow House of Photography (2002); KRITI-POP (with Aristarkh Chernyshev), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2008). Selected group exhibitions: I Believe!, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (2007); Futurology, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2010); 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (as part of the group Electroboutique), ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow (2014). He is a winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Media Art. Project of the Year (with Aristarkh Chernyshev, 2009).
