Solomon Nikritin was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire).
[citation needed] He had also trained with Aleksandra Exeter during the Civil War before he went to Vkhutemas.
[2] By 1916, he was associated with KKHU faculty's informal group of young artists, including Alexander Tyshler, Mark Epstein, and Isaac Rabinovich.
In 1922 Nikritin participated in the First Russian Art Exhibition in the Gallery van Diemen in Berlin together with Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Aleksandra Ekster, El Lissitzky, Nathan Altman and others.
Sometime in the 1920s, Nikritin attempted to develop a typology and classification of human voices, movements, gestures, emotions, sounds, and colors according to the principles and terms of biomechanics, musical harmony, and acoustics.