Since 1992 Oleksandr Zhyvotkov is a member of the art group Picturesque sanctuary;[1] participant of the Ukrainian New Wave.

Oleksandr Zhyvotkov was born on 31 March 1964 in Kyiv in a creative family that lived on the then Heroes of the Revolution Street (now - Tryokhsviatytelska), near St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.

[4] According to Oleksandr Zhyvotkov, his creative mentor and teacher was his uncle - artist Mikhail Rudakov (Moscow, Russia).

He graduated in 1988 and received a diploma of higher education at the Faculty of Scenography of the Kyiv State Art Institute) during perestroika.

[5][6][7] Oleksandr Zhyvotkov’s works are kept at museums and in numerous private collections in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.