Dmitry Gubin was born on October 6, 1975 in Kharkov, USSR (now Ukraine). His father, a Jewish dissident artist, was the first to introduce Dmitry Gubin to art and was responsible for Dmitry's initial art education.

After receiving a refugee status, Dmitry Gubin and his family have emmigrated to the US in 1989. Gubin continued his art education at LaGuardia HS of Music and Art and later at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he received Photography BFA in 2000.

Dmitry Gubin curretly lives and creates in Bedford-Stuyvetsant area of Brooklyn in New York City.