Sergey Khorikov

Sergey Khorikov is the Russian sculptor who strives to place universal human experience and feelings in the centre of his artistic creation embodying amazing images in marble. Sergey was born in Moscow, the former USSR, in 1955.

After leaving Moscow high school in 1972 he started working as an apprentice and later a co-author of Moscow established sculptors of that time mastering the traditional technique of carving marble without using electrical instruments.

Since 1973 Sergey was also engaged working for the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and in the workshops of the Soviet Fund of Culture sculpting in marble and granite busts of generals and marshals as well as political leaders. In his spare time, however, he continued to pursue his passion for sculpting in the classical tradition. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist system Sergey has worked on his own in his studio in Moscow.

In the early 1990s he created the cycle "Rejecting the dogma", a series of marble sculptures investigating the main Christian idea of sacrifice. In the 1990s a number of his marble sculptures including those from the cycle "Rejecting the dogma" were exhibited in the art galleries in San Francisco, the USA.