Olim Kamalov

Who is Olim Kamalov?

By learning the specific of miniature painting and restoring copies of miniatures of Middle Age Persian-Tajik artist K. Behzod, O. Kamalov works on the series of his own works of modern miniature. He elaborated his own technology of wood processing and paints miniatures on canvases, plates and plane-tables. The artist has his author’s elaboration of painted in national style, chiseled wooden chess-backgammon. In 2009 Olim Kamalov found Tajik school of miniature painting.

Painter- miniaturist, honored artist of the Republic of Tajikistan

Education:

1975-1979 Art College named by M.Olimov

Work experience:

1979-1985 – chief artist in the fabric “Armugon”

1980-1982 – military service in Soviet Army

1985-1993– chief artist and founder of the cooperative “Tuhfa”

1993-2000 – teacher of drawing and sketching in the school #7

2000 – to this day – part-time artist in the publishing-house “Adib”

2010 – director of the gallery and educational center of miniature painting “Mino”

Professional memberships:

С 2003 - member of Union of artists in Tajikistan

с 2005 - member of People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan

Personal art exhibitions:

2004г, 2009 – personal exhibitions in Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan