Since 1967 he has been an illustrator for a popular science journal "Himiya I Zhizn" ("Chemistry and Life") and has also worked for a number of other leading journals and magazines of Russia.
Since 1973 he is a member of the Moscow Committee of Graphic Artists on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street. From 1986 to 1990 he has been a head of the easel graphics section of this committee, taking part in annual summary exhibitions.
Gennady Goncharov illustrated many books published by such publishing houses as "Mysl'" ("Thought"), "Nauka" ("Science"), "Detskaya Literatura" ("Children Literature"), "Hudojestvennaya Literatura" ("Fiction") and some others.
He worked as a restorer for a number of eparchies of Russian Orthodox Church: Moscow eparchy (in Sergiev Posad), Ivanovo eparchy (Ivanovo Cathedral), Perm eparchy (in Kungur and Solikamsk), Tambov eparchy (in Pichaevo), Orel eparchy (in Livny).
Participated in the action "Russian collection of the end of XX century" (1994-1996). This action supported the establishment of M'ARS (the Modern Arts Museum) in Moscow, the first private museum in Russia.
Participated in the project "The World of Sensual Things in Pictures of the End of XX Century" based on Jan Amos Komensky's book "Orbus pictus sensualis" ("Visible world in pictures"), 1658.
He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia under the UNESCO International Federation of Artists.
Gennady Goncharov works in the composition painting genre, the style of romantic conceptualism. He primarily works in pencil.
Some Gennady Goncharov's paintings are in M'ARS museum collection as well as in private collection in Russia, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Austria, Great Britain, Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia, USA, Finland, and Argentina.
The artist now lives and works in Moscow.
Gennady Goncharov speaks about himself:
"I'm giving you some thoughts about my so called biography or graphics. It is not the collection of facts of my life, it would be too simple - just get some truth, some tales and here is a number of events that have neither meaning, nor significance (while the purpose is most significant). Besides, while the so-called fact is not realized, it is as if it were absent, it is just a tale, a show. Thus, we need something different: like in weaving a base is needed, here we need sence.
Therefore I think that I am not an artist. It is not a slip of tongue. I am neither a bad artist, nor a good artist or a very good artist. I am no artist. What I observe is not life as landscapes with cows and mood, but the life of mind and perception. A picture can appear or not and it does not matter. As it does not in every real life or real biography which has no beginning and no end, they just continue. There is nothing between the life and the man, to be more precise, there is a gap and one should see something in it: either God or concsiousness".
A brief list of exhibitions:
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