Andrey Starkov

Andrey Starkov​

 

Born in 1957, in Almaty

Graduated from Novosibirsk Engineering and Construction Institute. Worked as an architect in design institutes in Moscow and Alma-Ata. Member of the Union of Architects of Kazakhstan.

Practicing private architect.

 

Solo exhibitions:

25 solo exhibitions since 1991  till 2012.

 

As the artist has participated in several expeditions in the Himalayas and in the Central Tien Shan. Has diplomas of IV, V and IV Moscow International Festival of Mountaineering and Adventure Films "Vertical" for solo  exhibitions of mountain scenery.

 

He was awarded the diploma of the Moscow Government for solo exhibitions .

 

The painting " View of Mount Everest from Tengboche Monastery " is in the collection of the famous Russian traveler Yuri Senkevich.

 The painting " Khan Tengri - Lord of Spirits ," was presented as a gift to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in commemoration of the visit to Almaty in November 1996.

 

" The peak of Abai in the evening haze " - this work is in the collections of Nursultan Nazarbayev , the first president of the Republic of Kazakhstan .

" Victory Peak " - the work presented to the famous mountaineer Reinhold Messner at the International Festival "Golden Ice Axe " in Chamonix in April 2010 .

 

His works are kept in the Kasteev State Museum of Art and in private collections .