Shailo Djekshenbaev

Artist, photographer, architect documenting creation and destruction.

Shailo Djekshenbaev was born in 1947 in Kyrgyzstan. After graduating with diploma in architecture in 1971 he began his professional career as an architect. In 1979 his passion for cinematography led him to the Cinema Academy of Goskino USSR in Moscow, where he studied animation film direction. Until collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Shailo Djekshenbaev was creating animation films in the Kyrgyzfilm studio. Since 1992 he has become a freelance photographer. He resides and works in Kyrgyzstan.

TOPOGRAFICA, American University of Central Asia, 2015

International art exhibition “Lost to the Future: Contemporary Art from Central Asia” in conjunction with Singapore Biennale 2013, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS), 2013

Solo photo exhibition “Zaman”, Bashkortostan, Ufa 2013

Solo photo exhibition “Ubergang”, Austria, Vienna 2010

International art exhibition “1989-2009 Turbulent World – Telling Time”, Germany, Berlin 2009

Solo photo exhibition “Soul And Its Environs”, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek 2009

International photo exhibition “WOSTOK” within Month of photography jointly with Christoph Grill, Austria, Vienna 2008

International photo exhibition “Kyrgyzstan: Between The Past and The Future”, Museum of Photography “Dom Metenkova”, Russia, Yekaterinburg 2008

International photo exhibition “Anikahandelt”, Austria, Vienna 2008

Solo photo exhibition “Experiences Of Silence”, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek 2008

Exhibition of contemporary art “Door. Epoch”, Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek 2007

4th Tashkent Biennale, Uzbekistan, Tashkent 2007

Solo photo exhibition “White Gesture”, Kunstmarke, Austria, Vienna 2007

International art exhibition “Paradox Of Polarity”, Base Pacio Gallery, USA, New-York 2007

Solo ...