Rinat Baibekov

Rinat Baibekov (Tatar: Ринат Байбәков, born 1962, Kazan, Russia) comes from a family of artists of Tatar ancestry. He began sketching and painting at a very young age, attending full-time art courses alongside primary school. Baibekov studied art at the Kazan Art College, followed by the Kharkov Academy of Fine Art, where he majored in Public Art. After living and working as an artist in St. Petersburg until 1990, Baibekov moved to Toronto, Canada. He returned to Europe in 1998, re-locating to Lowestoft, UK, where he paints and exhibits to the present day. rdf:langString