Andrey Olenev was born in Nizhny Novgorod. He is a member of the informal art association Muddlehood and co‑founder of Tolk Gallery. He participated in the publishing project of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019), the art residency of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2021), and the exhibitions Fresh Layer (Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod; PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, 2017), Life of the Living (National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, 2017), Tragedy in the Corner (Museum of Moscow, 2018), and Unnamed. Selected Works from the Collection of Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, 2021). He is a resident artist at Tikhaya Studio (Nizhny Novgorod).
