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