Arti Struyanskiy was born and raised in Moscow, Russia and currently resides on the unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He attended Stroganov’s Academy of Art in Moscow, and received a BFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Struyanskiy is an MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia.