Андрей Цой was born in Murmansk, northern Russia.
He is the son of a korean father and ukrainian mother. From 1986-1990 Tsoy attended the Dnipropetrovsk art school, before moving to the prestigious Ukrainian National Academy of Fine Arts where he completed his undergraduate education in 1997.
In 1993 the young Tsoy held is first solo exhibition at the Tychyna museum.