From 1954 to 1959 Shelkovsky
studied at the Moscow Art School 'in memory of the year 1905'. From 1962
to 1966 he worked as a fresco restorer in Moscow and Novgorod. In
1971 he started sculpting. In 1976 he emigrated to France. From 1979 to
1986 he was editor of the Journal 'A-Ya'