Andrii Kulagin was born in Kazakhstan in 1961. For about twenty years he has been living in Ukraine, today he is a famous Kiev artist with a wide creative range: landscapes and still lifes, portraits and laconic graphics. His portrait of John Paul II is in the gallery of the Vatican Library.

Adherence to the realistic school does not prevent the artist from experimenting with form and color in new genres, the result of such experiments was a solo exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Paris.

The artist was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor in Soviet times. The only artist in the post-Soviet space who was awarded the gold medal of the Vatican for his contribution to the development of world art.

The artist's paintings are in private collections and galleries in Austria, Australia, Great Britain, the Vatican, Germany, Italy, Libya, the Netherlands, Poland, the USA, Slovakia, France, Russia and Ukraine. He has over 100 solo exhibitions to his credit.