Ravil Akmaev

Ravil Akmaev (Rus. - Равиль Акмаев, was born in 1948, in Stakhanov, Lugansk oblast', Ukraine), is the modern Ukrainian painter, sculptor, lives and works in Donetsk. Ravil Akmaev is a Tatar by ethnicity.

Education

 * Student of Ivan Kondratyevich Gubskiy, Lugansk painter
 * 1962-1967 - Moscow University of Arts and Culture, Russia
 * 1967-1972 - Slavyansk Pedagogical Institute, Ukraine

Activity
Ravil Akmaev is a speech pathologist by qualification. As a painter he has a preference for panel painting technique, "society" genre. Since 1990 he's been the Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. He was a student of Ivan Gubskiy, a well-known artist from Lugansk. Ravil Akmaev is the winner of ten awards at all-Union and all-Ukrainian poster contests.

Solo exhibitions

 * 1997-1999 - one-man exhibition at the gallery "Art Radon", Donetsk, Ukraine
 * 1999 - "XX" gallery, Budapest, Hungary
 * 1999 - exhibition at House of Scientists, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
 * 2002 - InterArt Gallery, New York, USA
 * 2003 - Mark Rudinshtein "WORLD KINOTAVR" Cinema Center, within the International Film Festival "Faces of Love", Moscow, Russian Federation
 * 2003 - "Neftyanik" Palace of Culture, Surgut, Russian Federation
 * 2003 - City Art Gallery, Surgut, Russian Federation
 * 2003 - Irina Litvak Gallery, San Francisco, USA. During the exhibition one of the paintings, "King, you've lost!" was stolen
 * 2005 - "Nef" gallery, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Kiev, Ukraine
 * 2005 - "Globus" gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
 * 2007 - Ukrainian Tatar Culture center "Tugan Tel"
 * 2007 - Russian Culture Center in Ukraine, Kiev
 * 2007 - International Exhibition of Tatar artists "Tat-Art", Central House of Artists, Moscow
 * 2007 - International exhibition within the program of the Tatar World Congress of Tatars, Kazan, Tatarstan
 * 2008 - 1st Prize at the Musa Jalil contest, Ukrainian Tatar Culture center "Tugan Tel", Kiev, Ukraine
 * 2008 - participant of the International Annual exhibition "Art-Salon", Central House of Artists, Moscow