In 1985, Boris Vedernikov graduated from the Moscow Secondary Art School, and in 1992 he graduated from the V. I. Surikov Moscow State Institute of Art, the studio of Professor V. N. Zabelin. In 1993, he won a scholarship from the Russian Union of Artists. In 1994 he was admitted to the Union of Artists. Since 1997 he has been working in the Creative Painting Workshop of the Russian Academy of Arts under the guidance of Academicians A. Tkachev and S. Tkachev. In 2002 he was awarded a diploma from the Russian Academy of Arts. The artist is a participant of various exhibitions since 1987. Personal exhibitions of B. A. Vedernikov were held in Borovsk (1996), in Moscow (1997, 1998, 1999), in the Tomsk Regional Art Museum (2004). His works belong to the private collections and galleries in Russia and other countries.