Yuri Fedorov was born in 1949 in Ternopil, Ukraine (then USSR). He graduated from People's University of Art, Moscow, in 1972. His art works have been influenced mostly by modernism, and by Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali in particular. Paintings of Yuri Fedorov are included in the permanent collection of the Ternopil Gallery of Art. He has had five exhibits in his hometown, and in 1998 he exhibited his works in Ried, Austria. Paintings of Yuri Fedorov can be found in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Austria, and Netherlands.

The paintings of Yuri Fedorov follow the original style which the artist named accentuism. The focus of his paintings is in expressing human emotions, feelings and music, interleaved with each other. Yuri Fedorov uses various techniques in his art, but primarily it is oil on canvas and chalk and pastel on paper. The artist has a number of artistic series, which represent most of his work. In particular, these are "Day and Night", "My Circus", "The Artist and The Model", "The Rise of Jazz".

Yuri Fedorov has never visited USA, and his paintings are presented by his son, Andriy Fedorov, who is a student at William&Mary, and can be reached by email ayfedo@wm.edu, or at (757) 358-4150.