Akanaev Amandos is a painter and member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He was born on the collective farm named after I. Michurin in the Alma-Ata region. In 1968 he graduated from the Alma-Ata Art School named after N.V. Gogol, where he studied under M. Kalimov and M. Kisamedinov. He lives and works in Almaty.

Akanaev shows in his work the desire to talk in a specific artistic language, and to reveal his feelings through colour, texture, and rhythm. He likes the dynamics of forms and their movement. The energy of the steppe plant sprouting through the stones (the word “taszhargan” translates from Kazakh as “a bush splitting stones”) is perfectly conveyed in the work A Taszhargan bush in the museum’s exhibition.