Evgeniy Monahov was born in 1974 in Moscow, in the family of a naval officer and engineer, none of his relatives or ancestors had any contact with art. Nevertheless, at a fairly early age, he began to show interest in art.

”Pictures are bits of life – you don’t know what happened before, nor what would happen next. You can only see “the now” – a moment frozen in time, as if caught in amber”.- Evgeniy Monahov