b. 1955, Kaskasu, South Kazakhstan region, Kazakhstan

Erbolat Tolepbay began exhibiting in Kazakhstan and abroad in the 1970s and remains an important figure in Kazakh art. Tolepbay is a graduate of the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute named after Abai (1977) and from an early age was interested in art and crafts – he was greatly influenced by his older brother Tokbolat Toguzbayev, whose work is also presented at the exhibition “Qonactar”.