1945
Born in Iva, Russia

1966-72
Moscow State Surikov Art Institute

1975
Admitted to the USSR Union of Artists

1976
Self-Portrait in Russian and Soviet Art. Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow

1979
First International Drawing Competition. Contemporary Art Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

1981
International Biennial of Arts. Rostock, Germany

Russian Images, Ltd., Pittsburgh

Twenty Three Moscow Artists. Moscow

1982
XL Biennial di Venezia. Russian Pavilion, Venice

5th Annual Triennial of Fine Arts. New Delhi. Awarded Grand Prize

Exhibition of the Ludwig Collection. Ludwig Museum, Cologne

1984
International Painting Exhibition. Kosice, Czechoslovakia

Chicago International Art Exposition

Shostakovich and His Time. Duisburg, Germany

1985
Russian and Soviet Art; Traditions and the Contemporary. Stuttgart; Hanover; Dusseldorf

1986
Art Expo, New York

Frick Fine Arts Gallery, University of Pittsburgh

Chicago International Art Exposition

1986-87
Six Moscow Painters. Riga, Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia

1987
Contemporary Soviet Art, FIAC 87. Galerie de France

1988
Forty Artists, Forty Years, Forty Countries. UNESCO, Paris

Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art. Sotheby's, Russia

1989
Moscow Artists in London. Riverside Artists Group, London

1990
Moscow: Treasures and Traditions. Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the USSR Ministry of Culture in association with the Seattle Organizing Committee of the 1990 Goodwill Games and the Seattle Art Museum

Olga Bulgakova, Alexander Sitnikov. International Images Gallery, Sewickley, PA

Contemporary Soviet Art: The Property of the Kniga Collection, Habsburg, Feldman, New York

1990-91
The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad 1965-1990. Columbus Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Arkansas Art Center

1991
Russian Painting. Lisbon, Portugal

1993
The Dream Reveals the Nature of Things. Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow

1994-95
The True Russia. The Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, Washington

1995
From Gulag to Glasnost. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Permanent installation of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986

1996
Neskuchmy Sad Gallery, Moscow. Solo Exhibition

Art Manége '96. International Art Fair, Moscow

Europe Art '96.International Art Fair, Geneva

In Memory of Shostakovich. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1997
Art Manége '97. International Art Fair, Moscow

Red Color in Russian Art. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The World of Perceptible Things in Pictures - the End of the 20th Century. State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1998
Operation Smile. Charity Auction with the support of Sotheby's, Moscow

1999
Olga Bulgakova, Alexander Sitnikov. De Twee Pauwen Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

2000
The Hurricane of Time: Turn of the Century, Close of the Millennium. Art of the 1960s through 2000. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection, Sanremo Villa Ormond, San Remo, Italy

Today Gallery, Moscow. Solo Exhibition

New Hermitage Gallery, Moscow. Solo Exhibition

Olga Bulgakova, Alexander Sitnikov. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

2004
Portraits. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

Public Collections: Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Moscow Museum of Modern Art Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Museum Ludwig, Cologne Museum of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA Museums of Art: Arkhangelsk, Bryansk, Kemerovo, Magadan, Omsk, Petrazovodsk, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, (Russia); Semipalatinsk, Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan)