Akmal Nur

Akmal Nur. National Artist of Uzbekistan. Laureate of the State Award of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Full member of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, chairman of AAUz.

Author’s Biography

Main dates of life and work:

1959 –born in Namangan city.

1978 – graduated from State Arts College named after Benkova.

1984 – graduated from the easel painting department of the Tashkent Theater and Art Institute named in honour of A.Ostrovsk.

1985-1989 – Internship at the Creative Workshop of the Academy of Arts in Tashkent named in honour of R.A. Akhmedov.

1990 – member Artists of the Union of Uzbekistan

1997 – elected as an Academician of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan.

2005 – titled as “National Artist of Uzbekistan”

2011 – Winner of State Award of Uzbekistan

2012 – appointed chairman of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan.

2013 – elected as an honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Exhibitions:

1987 – Inter Union Art Exhibition, Moscow Russia

1988 – USSR Arts Academy Exhibition, Tashkent

1988 – USSR Arts Academy Exhibition, Leningrad, Russia

1988 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1989 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1989 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

1989 – International Exhibition, Skopje, Yugoslavia

1990 – Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1990 – Group Exhibition of uzbek artists, Galler Davidson, Seattle, USA

1991 – Personal Exhibition, Rabat, Morocco

1991 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1991 – Personal Exhibition, Hague, Netherlands

1992 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1992 – Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1992 – Personal Exhibition, Gallery “Art Heritage”, Delhi, India

1993 – “Associations of the 23’s” Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1994 – Republican Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1995 – Personal Exhibition, Theatre-studio “Ilkhom”, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1995 – Personal Exhibition, Munich, Germany

1996 – Republican Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

1996 – International Exhibition “Habitat-2” Istanbul, Turkey

1997 – Group Exhibition of uzbek artists, Detinham, Netherlands

1998 – Group Exhibition of uzbek artists, Cologne, Germany

1999 – “I profess the religion of love” Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2000 – Group Exhibition of uzbek artists in World Bank, Washington DC, USA

2001 – Personal Exhibition, Detinham, Netherlands

2003 – “Valley of love” Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2004 – “Path to yourself” Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2006 – International Exhibition of the SCO, Handzhou, PRC (China)

2007 – Personal Exhibition, Gallery “Sovcom”, Moscow, Russia

2011 – “In me” Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2014 – “Feelings and dreams” Personal Exhibition, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Works are kept in the lands of Uzbekistan – in Tashkent: in the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan, the Exhibition Directorate of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, the National Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Invest Bank of Uzbekistan; Samarkand State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve named A.Ikramov, Urgench Art Gallery; abroad – in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yugoslavia), the Davidson Gallery in Seattle (USA), in the Art Heritage Gallery and Lalit Cala Academy, Delhi (India), Credit Suisse Bank Collection (Switzerland), and in private collections in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, USA, Israel, Canada, Morocco, India, Turkey, Switzerland.