He was born 17 Jun 1930 in Ivanovo. In 1945 he entered the Ivanovo art school. Was trained by one of the founders of the Ivanovo art school of Ivan Nikandrovich Nefedova, honored teacher of RSFSR, Serafim Nikolaevich Trinity, people's artist of Russia, laureate of the State prize of the Mark I. Malyutin. He graduated from the school in 1950.
In 1951 he entered the State art Institute in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Department of graphics, Studio of the national artist of the USSR Vytautas Jurkunas. His teachers were also a people's artist of the Lithuanian SSR Juozas Kedaini, people's artist of the Lithuanian SSR Jonas Kuzminskas, people's artist of the Lithuanian SSR Augustinas Savickas. In 1957 he graduated from the Institute and moved to Kaliningrad.
Since 1965 member of the Union of artists of the USSR (since 1992 – the Union of artists of Russia).
A. A. Shevchenko works in different techniques: engraving, watercolor, oil, pastel and gouache. Special skills attained in the technique of linocut, as well as possible appropriate to their chosen topics. In his creative manner and reflected the best features of Russian and Lithuanian art schools. In Ivanovo masters, he learned not only to create realistic images, but also to satiate their creative fervor, and therefore glorified human labor. The Lithuanian master, in turn, showed the future artist a special approach to form, which combines the rigor, precision, and expressiveness.
In the works at different stages were influenced by the "severe style", Soviet poster and traditions of Russian printed graphic art of the early twentieth century. The works of A. A. Shevchenko distinguishes concise language, clear shapes, attention to details, great mastery of the technique. Writes genre scenes and domestic scenes, portraits, landscapes. The focus in his works, pays the following topics: the development of the Kaliningrad region, the life of the sea workers, the nature of Kaliningrad region.
The main characters of A. A. Shevchenko were people of working professions – those under whose direct participation on the ruins of the German city of Konigsberg grew up the Soviet city of Kaliningrad. The most Western region of Russia has acquired a new look in the eyes of the artist. The restoration of the city after the war demanded enormous effort, hard work of thousands of people. Their everyday heroism depicted in the graphic series A. A. Shevchenko. Today, these works are not only artistic but also historical value, because many details of those years are gone forever.
A. A. Shevchenko – the participant more than 100 exhibitions (including 12 international, 14 regional and 12 personal). The works of A. A. Shevchenko are in the collections of over 20 museums, including the Kaliningrad Museum of fine arts, national art Museum of Buryatia, Yaroslav-Rostov Museum, Kursk Museum, Murmansk local history Museum, Novgorod art Museum, Arkhangelsk Museum, Ryazan art Museum, the Karelian Museum of fine arts, Stavropol Museum of fine arts, the Art Museum in Brussels (Belgium) and private collections.