Vadim Markevich was born in Riga, Latvia.
He graduated from the Lyceum of Arts and Restoration in St. Petersburg, and has exhibited since 1994 in the State Museum of Modern Arts, Minsk.
He went on to study at the Royal College in London in 1999, where he received an expert assessment of his work by Sotheby's.
The artist describes his work as neoclassical; a return to the more traditional style of painting.