'MOM'S HUGS' - Oil on Canvas

Artist Biography

Sayan Baigaliyev was born in 1996 in the village of Betkuduk, Kazakhstan. He specialized in easel painting at a boarding school and technical school at the KazNAI named after T.K. Zhurgenov, Almaty. He studied under the guidance of Aidan Salakhova at the Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Sayan has also trained in museum practice in Paris and won the 2021 Jackson Painting Prize in the Scenes from Everyday Life category in London. He was a finalist in the 18th Art Laguna Prize, Italy, and was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Kazakhstan. His works have been exhibited at international art fairs including VOLTA in Basel and ASIA NOW in Paris.