b. 1971, Karaganda, Kazakhstan

Born in 1971 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. She lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She graduated from an art school and continued her studies in fields related to painting and design, including training at the T. Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts. In 2002, she became a second-prize laureate of the Shabyt Festival in Astana. From 2010 to 2013, she taught in the “Fashion Design” department at the Zhurgenov Academy of Arts in Almaty. She works across various media, including painting, drawing, animation, video installations, and objects. Her practice explores the relationships between personal history, the body, space, the domestic environment, and memory. Nature, everyday objects, and cultural codes become elements of her visual language. She often addresses themes of identity, mythology, culture, and design—for example, examining how archaic or Eastern ornamental patterns, decorative motifs, and household forms can be integrated into contemporary visual space. Her work is marked by a fusion of cultural codes: Eastern/Central Asian and Western/European, decorative and conceptual.