Artist
Alpamys Batyr
Alpamys Batyr was born in Aktyubinsk in 1988.

The artist graduated from the American International University in London with BA in Graphic Design.

Batyr’s begins his artistic practice by making graffiti drawings with a more recent shift toward animation, public art, and paintings. The artist’s research centers around cities and their maps, imagined spaces, paintings, and an attempt to rethink Qazaq ornament in the contexts of new urban culture.

Recent exhibitions include a solo show Metapolis at Esentai Gallery in 2017, a group exhibition Life of Things at the Museum of Future Energy Nur Alem as well as a solo exhibition Amazing Planets held in Almaty in 2021.