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Born 1969 in Kazakhstan
Lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1987-92 | Academy of Art and Theatre, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | Exodus, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kurban, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Kissing Totems, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2007 | On the Road, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Steppen Baroque, Alma-Ata Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2003 | Rudolff Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| 2002 | Arttra Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
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| 2001 | Color of Temptation, Tengry Umay Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 | Tajarma/Translation, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (forthcoming)
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art, and Violence, El Cubo-Tijuana Cultural Center, Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico; and Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (forthcoming) |
| 2009 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Jeu de Paume National museum and Centre Pompidou, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Reina Sofia National museum and the Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid.
Off the Beaten Path: Women, Art, and Violence, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, the University of California, San Diego, CA
Golden Drum International Video Festival, Hanti-Mansiisk, Russia
Re-imagining October, curated by Isaac Julien and Mark Nash, Calvert 22, London, UK
La Nit de l'Art, Project Space I, La Caja Blanca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Unconditional Love, 53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Alexandrina Markvo, Alinda Sbragia and Christina Steinbrecher, Arsenale Novissimo 89, Venice, Italy
East from Nowhere, curated by Enrico Marceloni and Valeria Ibraeva, Arsenale II, Turin, Italy
Tajarma/Translation, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
Native Dancer, dir. Guka Omorova, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2008 | Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
The Distance to the Sun, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany
International Video Festival, Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Madrid, Spain
New Media Art from Iran and Central Asia, College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
Oberhausen International 54th Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Time Code, Mambo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
I Dream of the Stans, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007 | Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Destination Asia, Galerie 88, Mumbai, India
Central Asian Project, curated by Yuliya Sorokina, Almaty, Kazakhstan;
Bishek, Kirgizstan; Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Peristan, performance and screening for the opening of the 52nd Venice Biennale, curated by Uyliya Sorokina, Central Asian Pavillion, Venice, Italy
Time of the Storytellers, curated by Viktor Misiano, Museum of Contemporary
Art - Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Paradox of Polarity: Contemporary Art from Central Asia, curated by Leeza Ahmady, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, NY
Central Asian Project, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK |
| 2006 | Catodica, curated by Maria Campitelli, Trieste, Italy
Actual Archives: Central Asian Contemporary Art, Rosamira Festival, curated by Viktor Misiano, organized by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Moscow, Russia
Caravan Seray, Zones of Contact, 2006 Sydney Biennale, curated by Dr. Charles
Merewether, Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia.
International Biennial of Photography-Brescia, curated by Sarenco, Brescia, Italy
Scanners: NY Video Fest, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Art and Conflict in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Haggerty Museum of Art,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
On the Road, premiere at Paris-Berlin International Film Festival,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Polyzentral, art festival of Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Art from Central Asia, curated by Viktor Miziano, Center of Contemporary Art,
Zamok Ujazdowskie, Warsaw, Poland
One in One and Jihad, film and video installation, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico
Mascelloni and Sarenco, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2005 | Paris-Berlin 2005, international video festival, Paris, France
On the Road, 51st Venice Biennale, Central Asian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Lublyana, Slovenia
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central
Asia, Ifa Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
The Syndrome of Tamerlan: Art and Conflict in Central Asia, curated by Valeria Ibraeva, Enrico Mascelloni and Sarenco, Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy |
| 2004 | Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, video festival organized by
The Center for Contemporary Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Paris/Berlin 2004, international video festival, Paris, France
M and Others, 1st Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art-Bishkek,
State Museum, Kirgizstan
Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk, Russia
International Visions, The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Vom roten Stern zur blauen Kuppel, Islamic World Art and Architecture from Central Asia,
Ifa Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Pueblos y Sombras, Canaja Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Natural Women, Visible Voice, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2003 | Berlin-Paris 2003, video-festival, Podevil Arsenal, Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Art-Novosibirsk, Novosibirik, Russia
Almaty Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
20th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paris-Berlin International Video Festival, Paris, France
Caravan Café, Rocca di Umbertide - Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy |
| 2002 | Catmania, Illuzeum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Nomad Land, Art and Culture from Central Asia, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
First Festival of Video Art, Kazakhstan
Re-orientation: Art on Central Asia, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Fourth Biennial of Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| 2001 | Inner Asia, traveling exhibition of graphics from Kirgizstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Siberia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Novosibirsk, Russia (2001 – 2003)
The Days of the Culture of Kazakhstan in Moscow, Moscow Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Collection 2000, International Vision -The Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Communication and Experience of Interaction, Central Asia Festival of Contemporary Art in
VDNH, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Handmade, Pushkinskaya 10, Saint Petersberg, Russia
Nomads Culture in the End of the Centuries, State Museum of Modern Art, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
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| FILM PROJECTS |
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| 2008 | Art Design for “Native Dancer” dir. Guka Omorova, screened at the 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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| AWARDS |
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| 2009 | Gold Tambourine Prize: Video Art, 1st Prize, Golden Drum International Video Festival, Hanti-Mansiisk, Russia |
| 2003 | Sacred Places of Kazakhstan, 3rd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan |
| 2002 | First Video Festival, 2nd Prize, Center of Contemporary Art, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan
Tarlan, an independent prize of Kazakhstan |
| 1995 | Asia Art, Grand Prix, Second Biennial of Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Darin, the state Grand Prix for artists, Khazakstan |
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