History occupies a prominent place in Michael Ricardo Andreev's work, which is influenced by Anselm Kiefer, Robert Motherwell, Gerhard Richter, and Franz Klein.

Andreev has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, at the Eickholdt Gallery in New York, and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. His work can be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), as well as in prominent private collections.