Mongolian Painter~Zayasaikhan Sambuu

2. Zayasaikhan Sambuu, who later became
known as Zaya, was born in 1975, in a small
and isolated town with only about one hundred
households in Gobi, Western Mongolia.
It is during his teenage years that the
oppression and censorship of communism
started to fade away, which enabled the
reemergence of forgotten nomadic culture and
heritage as well as the freedom of religion.
Growing nationalism and religious freedom
allowed many people to practice Buddhism and
as a teenager who was skilled in drawing and
was greatly encouraged by the elders to depict
portraits of Buddhist Gods in order to recover
their religious customs and values.

44. At the age of 17, Zaya enrolled in the Soyol
Fine Art College in Ulaanbaatar to study the
traditional Mongolian fine arts. After finishing
at the college, he continued his academic
career and went on to study at the Institute of
Fine Art at the Mongolian University of Culture
and Art, which he graduated in 2002 with a
bachelor’s degree.
From 1999 to 2002, he successfully presented
various solo exhibitions in the Art Union of
Mongolia. The 2001 exhibition in German
Embassy in Mongolia was highly rated by both
the Mongolian artists and art critics. In 2003,
Zaya was named the best young artist of
Mongolia in the Art Show of Young Artists.

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