Mikhail Gubin was born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1953. In 1970 he graduated from Kharkov Art School. In 1989 Mikhail Gubin immigrated to New York by way of Vienna and Rome. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions (including a 1998 solo exhibition at the International Visions), receiving multiple awards and praising reviews from the New York Times among many others. His work shows an impressive mastery of metaphorical and allegorical subjects, displaying both his dry humor and his bold approach to the figure in his vigorous and expressive work. Ernst Neizvestny, a renowned artist and philosopher, said, "Gubin's work occupies a unique place in which there is synthesis of freedom of expression and feelings and true artistic professionalism."