Hadji Murad
Alikhanov

Year of birth: 1948

Education: Dagestan Art School, Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography.

Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Awards: Honored Artist of the Republic of Dagestan.

Exhibition experience: the artist has a large number of solo exhibitions (Moscow) and group exhibitions (Germany, Belgium, Syria, France, Russia).

The artist's works are in museum collections:
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow;
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art;
- Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts;
- Dagestan Museum of History and Architecture;
- Novosibirsk State Art Museum;
- Perm State Art Gallery;
- Tula Regional Museum of Art;
- Samara Regional Art Museum;
- Kaliningrad Regional Museum of Fine Arts;
as well as in corporate and private collections in Russia, the United States, Scotland, Austria, Italy, France, Japan, Norway and Sweden.

The main theme of the artist's work is, first of all, color. Creating his compositions, the artist thinks exclusively in color, which is the main means of artistic expressiveness of the image. Haji-Murad Alikhanov's painting system includes many styles and trends that have already become a classic heritage in the world visual culture. They are embedded in the fusion of his experiences and in the texture of his painting. The art of El Greco and Matisse, Vrubel and Miro, Kandinsky, the school of oriental miniature had a strong influence on the artist's work.