Andrey Krisanov was born on June 30, 1966 in Novorossiysk. In 1983 he moved to Leningrad. In the mid-80s, he participated in exhibitions of the group "New Artists" founded by Timur Novikov. ​

The artist's creative career began in the legendary Assa gallery on Voinova Street. Novikov helped him to get a job at the heat center of the Russian Museum, and Andrey had the opportunity to visit museums at any time. Thus his artistic taste was formed. Many artists, including Timur Novikov, Sergei Bugaev, Oleg Kotelnikov, Viktor Tsoi, Georgy Guryanov were fascinated by his "square-headed characters". They are remembered as a calling card of Krisanov of the 80s.

After being acquainted with the music group "Kino" Krisanov exchanged several of his paintings for a bass guitar and became a musician. Since 1986 he made stage sets for "Kino" and "Pop Mechanics", as well as performed at concerts as a guitarist. Andrey Krisanov designed the cover of the "Blood type" album by "Kino" group (1988). He acted in some cult movies of the 80s, including "ASSA" (director Sergey Soloviev, 1988) and "ROCK" (director Alexey Uchitel, 1987).

Krisanov was one of the first to join the “Club of Friends of Vladimir Mayakovsky”. He was a member of the “Novorossiysk group” along with artists Sergey Bugayev-Africa, Inal Savchenkov and S.Enkov.

In the late 80s the famous collector of contemporary art Frederick Weisman bought several works by the young artist and presented them in famous museums in the United States. In the early 90s Andrey went to Switzerland. ​In 1991 his first solo exhibition took place in Lausanne, which had a good reaction among collectors and mass media.

In 1994 he returned to St.Petersburg, where he lived, worked and participated in exhibitions. Andrey Krisanov passed away in August 2018.