Sayan Baigaliyev

Sayan Baigaliyev (b. 1996, Betkuduk, East Kazakhstan) is an artist whose practice originates from easel painting and has gradually expanded into contemporary approaches. He studied at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.K. Zhurgenov and later continued his education at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Vasily Surikov within the mentorship program of Aidan Salakhova and Sergei Ossovsky.

Baigaliyev frequently turns to still life, one of the oldest genres in art history, but reinterprets it in unexpected ways. His objects often refuse to stay confined within the frame of the canvas, accumulating in thick ridges of oil paint and sometimes even transforming into sculptural forms.

In 2021, he received the Jackson Painting Prize in the category Scenes from Everyday Life (London). He has led painting masterclasses at UNESCO’s International Festival Planet of Art in Astana (2019) and has exhibited internationally, including at the VOLTA Basel (Basel, Switzerland) and the exhibition New Time at the New Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) as well as a solo exhibition at Kasteyev Museum of Fine Arts in Almaty in 2024.

His artworks are part of Almaty Museum of Arts Collection, TOVA Foundation Collection, MoCA Collection, MMOMA Collection, Vinzavod CCC Collection, and Private Collections in Kazakhstan, England, France, Switzerland, Japan, USA, Denmark, Italy, Russia.

From the Room, 2022

Canvas, oil, oil sculptures
280 x 750 x 100 cm

Self-portrait, 2024

Oil, canvas
39 x 25 cm

Alone in the Room, 2023

Oil, canvas
200 x 450 cm

On the sides, 2023

Oil, canvas
30 x 31 x 21 cm

Picturesque Vase, 2023

Oil, canvas, wood
120 x 60 x 50 cm

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