Prof. Dr. Murad Allahverdiyev’s solo painting exhibition consisting of 27 works exclusively prepared for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts will be opened by President Ersin Tatar on December 27 at the Near East University Atatürk Congress and Culture Center Exhibition Hall.
Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts bids farewell to 2021 with its 401st exhibition, which will be opened on December 27 at the Near East University Atatürk Congress and Culture Center Exhibition Hall. Artist-academician Prof. Dr. Murad Allahverdiyev’s painting exhibition titled “Personal”, consisting of 27 works of oil on canvas, exclusively prepared for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, will be opened by President Ersin Tatar on Monday, 27 December at 16.30 at the Near East University Atatürk Congress and Culture Center Exhibition Hall.
The painting exhibition titled “Personal”, which will feature Near East University Faculty of Fine Arts and Design faculty member Prof. Dr. Murad Allahverdiyev’s works exclusively prepared for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts, will be the last exhibition of 2021.
Who is Prof. Dr. Murad Allahverdiyev?
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1960, Murad Allahverdiyev studied at A. Azimzade Art College between 1975-1979. He graduated from the Ukrainian Academy of Applied and Decorative Arts in Lviv in 1979. He started teaching at the State Art Institute in 1990. In 2000, he transferred to the Azerbaijan State Painting Academy. In 2004, he became an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Arts at the Academy of Arts. Murad Allahverdiyev, who was a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan in 1991, opened his first solo exhibition at the Lviv National Gallery in 1986. Afterwards, he held solo exhibitions in Warsaw in 1987, Hungary in 1988, Baku in 1997 and Nicosia in 2015 and 2020, respectively. He participated in international exhibitions in Iran in 1994, in Stockholm and Moscow in 1996, and in Paris and Vienna in 2004.
Working at the Near East University Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Plastic Arts since 2013, Prof. Dr. Murad Allahverdiyev is the owner of the statue “Artist of the Year 2018” and a European artist diploma. Prof. Dr. Allahverdiyev received the “Fergani Award” given to painting artists as part of the Alasia Awards on 29 July 2020, for his contributions to the Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts.