Member of the Artists' Union of Russia.
Born in 1970 in Nalchik.
In 1989 Yuri Pervushin graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art School named after I. D. Shadr.
In 1995 graduated from the Graphic arts faculty of The St. Peterburg Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin (studio of professor A.A. Pakhomov).

In 1995 interned at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris (painting studio of prof. B. Piffaretti and engraving studio of prof. J.-P. Tanguy). 

In 1995 - laureate of the contest dedicated to N. Poussin (contest organisers: the Louvre Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Paris and the LVMH Company).

From 2000 - Fellow of the Presidential Fund in Support of Young Culture Professionals. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg.

From 1990 Yuri Pervushin has participated in more than 100 personal and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

The artist’s works are found in museum collections:

• Benois Family Museum (Peterhof State Museum-Reserve),
• State Museum of Fine Arts (Yekaterinburg), Contemporary art collection at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (Staint Petersburg),
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain),
• Museum of Contemporary Russian Art (New Jersey, USA),
• Municipal Arts Center (Wress, Belgium),
• House-Museum of M.P. Mussorgsky (Velikie Luki),
• Vologda State Museum of Fine Arts.

Yuri Pervushin’s artworks are also found in private collections in Australia, Belgium, Great Britain, in the Netherlands, Russia, USA, France and Finland.