Sasha Budayev was born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus, and studied painting in Minsk State Art College, Saint-Petersburg Academy of Art, School of Engaged Art Chto Delat and School of a Young Artist ProArte. He holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University.

He has participated in group and personal shows in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Brighton (UK), Minsk, Berlin, Paris, Tallinn and Philadelphia and NYC. He taught in Minsk State Art College before moving to Philadelphia.

From 2018 through 2021 he taught at the Princeton Academy of Art, NJ. He currently teaches academic drawing and painting in Bridgeview School of Fine Art, New York, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia.

To see Sasha’s paintings in the classical tradition, click here:

CLASSICAL WORKS

To see Sasha’s recent contemporary work, please visit his instagram @sasha_budayv or click here:

CONTEMPORARY WORKS