Pavlo Mykolayovych Ponomarenko, born on May 14, 1979 in Mariupol. He drew all his life, but he never dreamed of being an artist. He did not receive special training, he studied the works of the classics, independently studied the works of outstanding masters, painting techniques, etc. He graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics with a major in "computer networks and systems", and received a diploma in computer network analysis. He has been doing art since 2011, the catalyst was a conversation with a friend "for life" that there should be something else besides work and family. After that, I plunged headlong into art, and now art is my life. Until March, he lived in the city of Mariupol, but life turned out in such a way that he ended up in the city of Lviv. Favorite directions in art - avant-garde, cubism, abstract art. Member of the NSHU union since 2017, participant of all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions, Works in the genres of abstract art, cubism; in his works, he offers a vision of the surrounding world through the analysis of geometric shapes. The works are in private collections in the USA, Poland, Italy, India, Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Russia