Year of birth: 1958
Occupation: Fine arts. Painting
Occupation: Fine arts. Painting
Gafur Kadirov
Artist Style: Academics
Artist Style: Academics
Monumental painter, painter.
Academic, modern, philosophical and romantic
Kadirov Gafur was born on December 28, 1958 in Tashkent.
1974 - 1978 - Studied at the P.P. Benkov Republican Art College.
1978 - 1984 - Studied monumental painting at the State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov in Moscow.
Since 1982 - Has participated in International Art Exhibitions.
1985 - 2024 - Works as a teacher at the National Institute of Fine art and Design named after Kamoliddin Behzod.
Since 2017 - Has been a professor at the Department of Monumental Painting at the K. Bekzad National Fine art and Design Institute.
1992 - 1997 - Was the head of the "Monumental Painting" Department at the Mannon Uygur.
Gafur Kadirov's works are kept in the Uzbekistan Academy of Fine Arts, the State Museum of Art, the collection of paintings by the National Bank of Uzbekistan (NBU), the Urgench Art Gallery, private collections in Great Britain, Germany, Spain, the USA, Singapore, Turkey, Italy, Norway, Ukraine, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and other private collections.
His works entered a new era in the art of Uzbekistan in the nineties. Realism in the work of Gafur Kadirov has acquired new facets. The new "plastic" thinking and synthesis of art throughout the centuries of the East, mixed with modern sensations in the visual arts, is the result of his many years of search and struggle.
Main exhibitions:
1988 - International Exhibition of Young Artists, Manege, Moscow, Russia.
1991 - Solo exhibition. Paris, France.
1993 - Solo exhibition, "Saksaul" Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
1995 - Exhibition, "Gork" Gallery. London. United Kingdom of England.
1995 - Exhibition. "Takashima" Gallery. Singapore.
2001 - Exhibition. The "Andrean" Gallery, London, United Kingdom of England.
2001 - Solo exhibition, Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan. Tashkent.
2001-2022 - Participant of nine Tashkent Biennales in Tashkent.
2002 - World Bank Gallery. Washington, USA.
2002 - International Moscow Art Salon. Central House of Artists, Krymsky Val.
2004 - Solo exhibition at the Ilkhom Theater. Tashkent.
2005 - Beijing International Biennale (Beyjing).
1998 – 2013 - Participated in the International Moscow Salon in Moscow. Central House of Artists.
2013 - Exhibition of artists of Uzbekistan. Ashgabat.
2015 - Exhibition of Uzbek artists. Beijing. China.
2016 - New silk roads: Painting beyond borders. Ene Central Asian art gallery. Singapur
2017 - Mustakillik exhibition. Tashkent.
2020 - An exhibition dedicated to March 8th. Central Exhibition Center. Tashkent.
2022 - Exhibition of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan. VDNKH. The Uzbek pavilion. Moscow.
2023 - The Republican exhibition Navruz. Central Exhibition Hall. Tashkent.
2024 - BONUM FAKTUM gallery. The exhibition "The Mystery of Turan".
2024 - Solo exhibition at "ARTIKUL32" Gallery.
