Husein Huseinov

Husein Huseinov (born on 22 September 1951 in Ashgabat) is a Turkmen painter and art director in films.

In 1977 he graduated from the Art Faculty of the All-Union State Institute for Cinematography in Moscow and afterwards he participated in numerous Republican, All-Union and international art exhibitions. In 1982 he joined the USSR Union of Artists and from 1992 regularly appeared on the artistic scene in Baku, Azerbaijan.

In the late 1990s he attained a scholarship and moved to Innsbruck, Austria. He currently resides in his native city of Ashgabat. Huseinov has also worked on more than ten films and theatrical productions.

Huseinov is primarily a landscape painter, and he is noted for his wilderness oil paintings, particularly of the desert in rural Turkmenistan. He has also produced paintings of a number of ancient Turkmen artifacts such as vases.

Huseinov has participated in exhibitions held in Russia, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey and Iran, where in 1997 his work featured in Tehran. Much of his artwork has been purchased by the Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts, the Moscow Directorate for Artistic Exhibitions, and by private collectors internationally.

He is a recipient of the Honorable Artist of Turkmenistan and was awarded the State Award of the USSR. He is a member of the Amsterdam-based Academy of Russian Arts.