Alex Nodopaka was born in Ukraine. He first exhibited in  Russia, 1940; finger painted in Austria, 1946; and doodled & sketched since. He studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco, 1958/59. Since 1959 he's lived in the USA where he is a full time artist, art instructor, art judge, self-appointed art critic and pretends to write poetry.