Shukhrat Babajanov is an Uzbek/Soviet artist painter and journalist.
Shukhrat Babadjanov was born in 1963 in Khorezm (Uzbek SSR). In 1984 he graduated from Tashkent State Institute named after Nizami, faculty of graphic arts. He studied under masters of painting as Chingiz Akhmarov, Malik Nabiev, Yanis Salpinkidi, Isfandior Vaidarov, Ruzi Choriev, Abdumumin Boymatov, Shavkat Abdusalamov.
After graduation he worked as a chief curator of Urgench Art Gallery and created a collection of contemporary Soviet paintings. In 1986, he exhibited his painting "Kissing stealthily" at an exhibition in Moscow called "Showing the young". This painting was also shown at an exhibition of Soviet art in Tokyo, Japan in 1987 and was awarded the gold medal of the Japanese Academy of Arts. That year he was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR.
He created paintings in the genre of fantastic oriental realism under the general name "One Thousand and One Nights".
In 1988 he was invited to the GDR by the Reclam book publishing house. The publishing house published a book of Uzbek folk tales (Der halbe kicherling) with the illustrations made by Shukhrat Babajanov.
The same year, he participated in the project "Unknown Uzbek Painting" at the House of Artists in Moscow, where his naive-art paintings "Mikhail Gorbachev" and "Raisa Gorbacheva" were shown. In 2000 he organized an exhibition in the Karakum desert in the border region of the two countries, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Germany he participated in the project of the House of Artists "Luisa" and created the installation "Samarkand".
In 2002 in the city of Weimer in Germany he took part in an exhibition of Central Asian artists with an installation titled "The Truth of the East".
In 2004, the installation was exhibited at Galerie Václava Špály in Prague.
On September 15, 2017, for the first time since Shavkat Mirziyoyev became President, Shukhrat Babajanov's works were exhibited at the ZERO LINE Gallery at the Contemporary Art Leaders Exhibition in Uzbekistan.
Shukhrat Babadjanov was born in 1963 in Khorezm (Uzbek SSR). In 1984 he graduated from Tashkent State Institute named after Nizami, faculty of graphic arts. He studied under masters of painting as Chingiz Akhmarov, Malik Nabiev, Yanis Salpinkidi, Isfandior Vaidarov, Ruzi Choriev, Abdumumin Boymatov, Shavkat Abdusalamov.
After graduation he worked as a chief curator of Urgench Art Gallery and created a collection of contemporary Soviet paintings. In 1986, he exhibited his painting "Kissing stealthily" at an exhibition in Moscow called "Showing the young". This painting was also shown at an exhibition of Soviet art in Tokyo, Japan in 1987 and was awarded the gold medal of the Japanese Academy of Arts. That year he was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR.
He created paintings in the genre of fantastic oriental realism under the general name "One Thousand and One Nights".
In 1988 he was invited to the GDR by the Reclam book publishing house. The publishing house published a book of Uzbek folk tales (Der halbe kicherling) with the illustrations made by Shukhrat Babajanov.
The same year, he participated in the project "Unknown Uzbek Painting" at the House of Artists in Moscow, where his naive-art paintings "Mikhail Gorbachev" and "Raisa Gorbacheva" were shown. In 2000 he organized an exhibition in the Karakum desert in the border region of the two countries, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Germany he participated in the project of the House of Artists "Luisa" and created the installation "Samarkand".
In 2002 in the city of Weimer in Germany he took part in an exhibition of Central Asian artists with an installation titled "The Truth of the East".
In 2004, the installation was exhibited at Galerie Václava Špály in Prague.
On September 15, 2017, for the first time since Shavkat Mirziyoyev became President, Shukhrat Babajanov's works were exhibited at the ZERO LINE Gallery at the Contemporary Art Leaders Exhibition in Uzbekistan.
Biography
• Series "One Thousand and One Nights
• Illustration "Der halbe kicherling" 1988
• Naïve art "Mikhail Gorbachev" and "Raisa Gorbacheva" 1988
• Exhibition in the Karakum Desert 2000
• Samarkand" installation
• Painting "Bread."
• Illustration "Der halbe kicherling" 1988
• Naïve art "Mikhail Gorbachev" and "Raisa Gorbacheva" 1988
• Exhibition in the Karakum Desert 2000
• Samarkand" installation
• Painting "Bread."
Paintings
The golden tiger
2017, collage (The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
Two guns
2014, collage (The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
9/11
2001, collage. 63х68 (The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
Blue tank
2019, collage
The soldier with a beard
2018
Circle
2018
The target
2016(The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
Verdict
2019(The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
The Peacock
2019(The State Art Museum of Uzbekistan)
+351 961 488 333
Babajanovs@gmail.com
