Сергей Игнатенко was born in Gomel, the Republic of Belarus.
At the young age of eleven Sergey Ignatenko was accepted into art school. As a child, he fiddled with paint and paintbrush and made figurative pictures with his mother's and sister's portraits. They were his models.
During his training he participated in numerous local and national exhibitions and competitions.
Graduating from the school in 1990, Ignatenko was accepted into the Gomel Art College painting department, from which he graduated in 1995.