Daud Akhriev Daud Akhleev Kazakh painter, (1959-)
Daud Akhriev is a Kazakh-American painter. Born in 1959 in the former Soviet Union. He studied classical painting for 14 years and graduated with honors from the Repin Academy of Fine Arts with a Master of Fine Arts degree under the tutelage of the late painter and scholar Piotr Fomin. In 1991, he immigrated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Akhleev is now a U.S. citizen and travels frequently with his artist wife, Melissa Heffering, between Andalusia in Spain and Chattanooga in Tennessee. His work is available in a variety of mediums, mainly oil paintings, but also watercolors and tempera paintings, as well as ceramics, sculptures and mosaics. Themes include figures, landscapes, still lifes, and interiors. The texture of most of his works, especially in his landscapes and interiors, has a material age.
Akhleev was internationally sought after as a mentor in figure and landscape painting, as well as his monumental works. Four seasons, four 9-foot-tall bronze statues he completed for chattanooga, are included in the National Register of Public Art. Other public art includes mosaics of Elanger Church and Belle School, as well as frescoes from The Adventist Church of Colegdale and St. Peter's Cathedral.
Daoud Akhleev's Stylistic Pluralism was published by Common Place Publishing House in 2002. He was also included in the Finley Collection of Russian Art. Akhleev's paintings are now in several books about the Repin Academy, both in Russian and Chinese, as well as in many magazines such as The Artist Magazine, Pastel Magazine, Island Magazine, Chattanooga Magazine, Southern Life, and American Art Collector.
Recent partial awards and recognitions
Shortlisted for the American Portrait Association's 24th International Portrait Competition, 2022
Center for the Revival of the Arts Salon No. 15, Southwest Art Magazine Awards, Barcelona, 2021
Portrait of America, "Best Unsolicited Portrait" Member-Only Contest, 2020
Hahnemuhle Prize, 5th International Pastel Biennale, Spain, 2020
American Oil Painters Annual Competition Exhibition, Master Autograph Gold Medal, USA, 2019
American Oil Painter, Vitas Exhibition Award of Excellence, USA, 2018
Annual Appraisal Exhibition of American Oil Painters, Excellence Award for the Most Original Master Signature Group, USA, 2018
Spanish Pastel Biennale, Rembrandt Prize, Oviedo, Spain, 2018
National Appraisal Exhibition of American Oil Painters, Most Imaginative Paintings, 2018
Master Signature Member, American Oil Painter, 2016
National Exhibition of American Oil Painters, Silver Medalist, 2016
Plein Air Magazine, Spring 2016 Competition, Grand Prize