Chingiz Farzaliyev

Chingiz Farzaliyev was born on November 20, 1943 in Baku. In 1973, he graduated from the faculty of painting of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. In 1975, he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1966 has been a participant of national, All-Union and international exhibitions. Since 2004 has been working as the head of the fine art chair at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006, he was awarded the honorary title of «Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan». Since 2008 he works as a professor in the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2010 he was appointed the director of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.[1] He is also the Chairman of the State Commission for Fine Arts since 2010.

• Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 2009;
• Honorary Professor of the Academy of Fine Art of Uzbekistan, 2012;
• Honorary Professor of the International Biographical Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2015;
• Laureate of the National Award «Humay», 2015;
• Honorary Doctor of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, 2015;
• Honorary Professor of the Moscow State Art Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov, 2017;

• Diploma of the International Association of the Union of Architects of the CIS countries, 1998
• The award «Outstanding Personality in Art» of the International Biographical Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2014[2]
• The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 2015
• Gold medal «The Best Patriotic Research Scientist of the Year", European Press and Publishing House, Azerbaijan 2015[3]
• Diploma of I degree in the nomination «Art-book» of XIII International Competition of the CIS countries, 2016
• The Presidential Order of Brilliance, 2016
• Medal of TURKSOY for contribution to the promotion of Turkic art, 2018
• Shohrat Order for merits in the development of fine art in Azerbaijan, 2018[4]
• Medal of the Azerbaijani Cultural Association "Simurg", 2019;
• Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 2019;

• All About Still Life, Baku, 2004
• All About Portrait, Baku, 2005
• All About Landscape, Baku, 2006
• Anthology of the Azerbaijani Painting, Baku, 2007
• Azerbaijan State Museum of Art, Baku, 2010
• Folk Art of Azerbaijan, Baku, 2013
• 36 books from "Sarvat" series dedicated to 45 prominent representatives of Azerbaijani National Art of the 20th century, Baku, 2014

• «At the Turn of Centuries», 2010 [5]
• «In Between» - Exhibition of Austrian modern art , 2011 [6]
• «The spirit of Budo - The History of Japan's Martial Art», 2012 [7][8]
• «Azerbaijani art through millenniums», 2013
• «Russian Avant-Garde As Phenomenon in the Art of XX century», 2015 [9]
• «French art from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art», 2017 [10][11]
• «Japanese art from the collection of Azerbaijan National Museum of Art», 2018 [12][13]

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• «German art from the collection of the Azerbaijan National Museum of Art», 2019;[15]

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  «Faithfulness», 1980
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  «Sunset», 1980
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  «Old clocks», 1987
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  «Still life», 1983