Igor Shterenberg was born in 1960 in Moscow. It's no coincidence he is an artist: both his father, grandfather and grandmother were painters.

From 1972 to 1978 Shterenberg studied at the Surikov Institute of Fine Arts in Moscow. In 1978 he was admitted to further education at the same institution, a course which he completed successfully in 1984. From 1980 to 1989 Shterenberg worked as an illustrator of children’s books. In 1990 he became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists. He has – among others – exhibited in the Kremlin and in the Pieter Brueghel Art Gallery in Amsterdam.

In his youth Shterenberg worked mainly with watercolors. At the age of sixteen, he switched to oils. Today he still works only in oils. Shterenberg sees himself as a ‘photo-realist. His main source of inspiration is Johannes Vermeer, whose love for painting city scenes he shares.