Mikhael Kouzminykh was bom in 1958 in the town Kambarka, the Urals, Russia.
In 1982 he graduated from the Izevsk University, art-grafic facullty.
In 1987 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art-Industrial Institute, mural painting.
Since 1992 he has been participainting in republican and international exhibitions.
He became a member of Artist Union of Ukraine in 1984.

Personal exhibitions;

1987 December , Museum in Kambarka, Russia.
1993 November, Fund of Culture, Mykolayiv, Ukraine.
1994 February,Galery "Zamoscworechie", Moscow.
1996 August,"Red Wine Mystery" in "Marine Galery", Odessa, Ukraine.
1997 May, 1998 September, Galery "Pavlovsky", Utreht, the Netherlands.
1998 July,"Jaconde's Kabinet", the Hague, the Netherlands.
1999 March,"Moonlike Lilith",The Union of Artists, Mykolayiv, Ukraine.
1999 May,"VazoVegetarius", Galery "Grifon", Kyev, Ukraine.
2000 September,The Ukraine Embassy in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Two group exibitions in "Galery Oeral" in 1998 and 1999, the Hague, the Netherlands.
International Art Fair;
"Marine-1996", Odessa, Ukraine.
"The Holland Art Fair" in the Hague, in 1997,1998, 1999, 2000.
"The Lineart" in Gent, Belgium in 1998, 1999.
"International Art Festival" in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1998.
"The Artiade " in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.in 1998, 1999.

"...putting phisical and emotional energy into creative work,materializing in idea accomplishes on the surface of the tensed canvas, the artist accomplishes an act of creation, he lives the instance of real and unreal lives simultaneously"
"To understand painting it's necessary to be just an honest person"