Shai-Ziya
(Ziyakhan Shaigeldinov)
Video-artist, author of objects
Born in 1948 in Issyk, Almaty Region. Died in Almaty in 2000.
Major exhibitions
1980 “Zhiger”, Republican Exhibition of Works of Young Artists of Kazakhstan. Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1982 “Zhiger”, Republican Exhibition of Works of Young Artists of Kazakhstan. Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1989 “Green Triangle”, Geology Museum, Almaty,
Kazakhstan
“Crossing”, Directorship of Art Exhibitions, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1990 Exhibition of avant-garde artists, “Shai-Ziya
and Co”, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Stalin – yesterday, today, tomorrow”, Directorship of Art Exhibitions,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
1991 “Paintings of the spirit”, “Cathedral” exhibition hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1995 “A Parade of Galleries”, Kasteev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1996 “Pro vitamin”, “Ular” Gallery,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Almaty’s Dull Art”, “Voyager” Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
1998 “Exhibition of Surrealism”, “Ular”
Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Opt-art”, Directorship for Art Exhibitions, Almaty, Kazakhstan
“Bed” fringe program on the First Exhibition of the Soros Center
Contemporary Art “Self-identification: Futurological prognosis”,
, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2000 “Pioneers and Komsomol of Kazakhstani video-art” fringe program on the Second Annual Exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art “Communications – Experience of Interaction”, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2001 “New acquisitions from Central Asia”,
Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA
“Dedicated to the memory of Shai-Zia”, “Ular” Gallery,
Almaty, Kazakhstan
2002 “No mad’s land”, House of World Cultures,
Berlin, Germany
“Trans Forma”. Center of Contemporary Art, Geneve, Switzerland