Aisha Galimbaeva

Camilla Lee, Aisha Galimbaeva, People Artist of Kazakhstan, [Threelingual: Kazakh-Russian-English], 2007

She taught at the Alma Ata Art College and the Graphics and Art department of the Kazakh State Abai Pedagogical Institute. She was a member of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan from 1951 and always took an active interest in the artistic life and community of her native land. She died in Almaty in 2008.

The artist mainly worked in oils. Her paintings, which was mainly executed during the 1950s, addressed issues of home, family and work. Her paintings capture the rich texture of her native land and its people, with a particular focus on women, and their changing social role. Her works have been described as possessing "socialist Realist content."

Aisha Garifkyzy Galimbaeva (Kazakh: Aişa Ğarifqyzy Ğalymbaeva; December 29, 1917, in Issyk, Almaty Province – April 21, 2008) was a Kazakhstani painter and educator. She is noted for her colourful and realistic depictions of women's changing position in the Soviet Bloc in the mid-20th century.

Aisha Galimbaeva was born in 1917 in the village of Issyk in the Almaty Province of Kazakhstan. She demonstrated an aptitude for drawing and painting at an early age. She received her artistic education with artists L.P. Leontev, A.I. Bortnikov, and A.M. Cherkassy. By the age of 17 had received her diploma from the N.V. Gogol Art College in Almaty. She graduated from Almaty Art School in 1943 and worked at the АН-Union State Cinematography Institute in Moscow.