Alexandr Rodin was born on 15 May 1947 in Baranovichi, a city in the Brest Region of western Belarus.

1' in the same city; in 1966 he started a study at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, which he finished in 1971.

[2] He resided at Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany for 12 years, because (as he describes it himself in an interview with website n-europe.eu) 'Berlin is a place interested in art.

[3] Art critic Larysa Mikhnevich described him as "the representative of neo-avart-garde and of the 'good old' painting: anecdotic and figurative".

Rodin's works are at the National Art Museum of Belarus, the Museum of Modern Art in Minsk, Belarus, Hasso-Platter Institute in Potsdam Germany and numerous private collections in Germany, Switzerland, UK, Poland, France, the USA, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia, Belgium and other countries.