Mr. Lekim Ibragimov was born in 1945 in Alma Ata region, Kazakhstan. From 1964 to 1971 he studied at the N.V. Gogol Art School in Alma Ata City. From 1971 to 1977 he studied at the graphic arts department of Tashkent State Institute of Graphic Arts named after A. Ostrovskiy. Since 1978 he has been a member of the Union of Artists of Uzbekistan.

His paintings can be seen in the following museums of the world: State Art Museum named after A. Kasteev, Alma Ata City, Kazakhstan.
East Asia Museum, Budapest,
Hungary
Museum of Orient, Moscow, Russia
State Picture-Gallery, Novosibirsk
City, Russia
Museum of Arts, Tashkent City,
Uzbekistan
Collection of Tawkerchen town
administration, Germany
Collection of Jay Pancer Corporation
of America, New York, USA

Honors and Awards:
1998: Golden medal of the Academy
of Arts for contribution to the
development of World culture.
1998: Artists of the World Congress
delegate, Paris.
1999: conferred the rank of the
Member of the Academy of Arts.
2001: Blue ribbon from the jury of
the 1st Tashkent International Arts
Exhibition Biennale 2001.
2001: conferred the rank of the
People's Artist of Uzbekistan.
Personal exhibitions:
1989: Luxemburg.
1990: Tashkent-Poland, India,
Morocco.
1992: Germany-Munich.
1993: Germany-USA.
1994: Germany-Tawkerchen.
1995: Germany-Bavareten.
International Artists Festival.
1996: France-Paris-UNESCO.
1997: A poetry book with
illustrations was published in
Switzerland. It is in the Louver
library collection (Paris).
1998: Uzbekistan-Tashkent.
2000:Japan-Nagano.
2002: Personal exhibition. Austria
2003: Personal exhibition.
Bangladesh
2003: Personal exhibition. Germany
2004: Participant of Biennale.
Beijing, China
2005: Exhibitions in Alma Ata,
Kazakhstan, Aichi, Japan and Paris,
France.

Mr. Lekim Ibragimov is the artist whose marvelous works, unparalleled in modern art, have gained the recognition of art critics and the public. Profound ties with the ancient pre-lslamic culture of Central Asia are clear in his creative work. His style is a synthesis of ancient Samarkand paintings, Uigur Turfan frescoes. Oriental miniatures and Matisse-ian traditions of European painting. Lekim's paintings are laconic and made by precise, free brushstrokes. They are extemporaneous and very original. The poetics of the ancient and medieval art of Central Asia live in the works of Lekim, as a phenomenon of unity of the past and present time, as the ancestral memory of artistic perception, as a glimpse into the dim and distant past. The material world is shown without compression of color and form, as ephemeral and illusory "maya", elegant and flying. The calligraphic movement of the brush places emphasis on forms, marks the substances, which appear and evanesce in space. The characters of Lekim's pictures form the characters of the eternal game of atman, and do not belong to the vulgar, three-dimensional world, or historical time; but to a temporary field of perception. Heavenly and mundane virgins, riders, centaurs-signs and hieroglyphs of this world and this mythology. Such are the characters of inconceivable, but everlasting game.
Member of the Academy
of Arts of Russia.
Art critic Vladimir Nazanskiy
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International Contacts Centre Xamar"
(the Uzbekistan Academy of Arts)