My early exposures to Eastern Philosophy and to Western innovations in art have greatly influenced my perspective as an artist.

I create from memory and imagination to inspire a new truth in my artworks. A departure from realism allows me the space to gain the perspective to communicate in a more relevant way the truth as I see it. For me, at that point, the ideas become sharper.

I was born in Dushanbe, the Republic of Tajikistan in 1958. At the age of eleven, I studied at the Moscow Surikov School of Visual Arts graduating in 1976 and received my Masters from the Moscow Surikov Academy of Fine Arts in 1982. I moved to the United States in 1994 and currently reside in Lincoln, Nebraska.

FEATURED in Union of Artists 0f Russia, Победа, (Victory) book dedicated to 70th anniversary victory in World War II; ART LTD; Art Forward Magazine; The Artist Catalogue; Prairie Schooner; China and Tajikistan: Cultural Dialogue; United Nations Chronicle Magazine; Omaha World Herald; Manhattan Arts International; Landscapes of a Mountainous District; Young Artists of Tajikistan; Creation (Творчество) Magazine; Young Artists (Юный художник) Magazine, among others.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: Include “Bronze Award”, Art Forward Magazine; “Prairie Light Award”, Museum of Nebraska Art; “Award of Excellence”, Manhattan Arts International; “The Color Profile Award”, Sun Storm Fine Art Magazine, New York; Awarded First Place for the Civil War Monument, Dushanbe, Republic of Tajikistan.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: National Museum of China, Beijing; K. Bekhzod National Museum, Tajikistan; Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow; Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA).