Gama Malikova

(B. 1972; Baku, Azerbaijan)
Gama (Hamida) Melikova graduated from the Azerbaijan State Medical University in Baku in 1997. In 2003, she left her medical career to devote herself to art. Gama is a talented self-taught artist whose passion for painting became her calling. Significantly, Gama has painted since childhood and always wanted to express herself through the language of art. Her talent has often been called a godsend.
Large surfaces always attracted the artist, and she created her first works using raw wooden boards. After that, Gama began to paint on the bark of trees, adapting her images to the wood’s natural structure. We could refer to this as her "organic period." Then she began to use the canvas as the basis for her works. During this period, her works resembled the paintings of old masters. They are both realistic and decorative, and their motifs are often inspired by the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani carpets.
Gama invented her painting style out of her desire to reproduce and display the dreams and images of her childhood, namely the plant motifs and the mythical and mysterious animals that she saw as a baby on the carpets that hung on the walls instead of paintings, as is so common in Azerbaijani homes.

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Solo Exhibitions
2016 Azerbaijan Carpet Motifs, Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow, Russia
2015 Azerbaijan Carpet Motifs, Giz Galasy Art Gallery (QGallery), Baku, Azerbaijan
2013 MAR’S Gallery of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2009 Park Café, Baku, Azerbaijan
2007 Giz Galasy Art Gallery (QGallery), Baku, Azerbaijan

Group Exhibitions
2023 Art Moscow Antique, «Sneg Gallery»Moscow
2022 Art Moscow Antique , «Milliart Gallery»Moscow
2021 CosMoscow Art Fair , «Uluhanli Gallery» Moscow .
2020 Affordable Art Fair New York , USA
2015 Art Fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2015 From Waste to Art International Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan
2014 From Waste to Art International Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan
2011 Maiden Tower International Art Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan