Zufar graduated cum laude from Zelenodolsk Art School with five years course. Encouraged by his teachers to continue his education at the Surikov’s Moscow Fine Art University, Zufar’s family history directed him to choose an education in a more financially secure profession. He turned to medicine and graduated from Kazan State Medical University with further specialization in cancer surgery. As Zufar studied and then practiced medicine, he continued to pursue his passion for painting. 

As a faculty member of the Department of Oncology at the Kazan State Medical University, Dr. Zufar Bikbov was invited to the United States through the exchange program with Yale University. During his stay he compared his future potential in America to his life in Russia and made the decision to relocate his family to America. Zufar, his wife Liliya and their two daughters Kadriya and Camilla live in Waterbury, CT.  

“My love of painting has been instrumental in shaping the direction of my life. It gave me my wife Liliya, talented music teacher and singer, best friends and sense of endless way of growth and perfection. Because of presence of medicine in my life, I have a very special feeling about nature and all that lives in the human soul. It is reflected in my mind and created in my art. I love to work with oils, which allow me to be flexible and deeply expressive. Graduated from classic realism approach art school later trough years I experimented. I am now developing a style, true to myself, based on things essential to life and human experience. Realism is not forgotten either. If I compare medicine and art, last gives me the chance to create – to feel the world and feel it in myself. And I always wish we all remember - life is such a special treasure.”   

Zufar’s art is currently represented by Devon House Antiques and Gallery, Stonington, CT.

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Zufar Bikbov is an Elected Artist of Kent Art Association, a member of Lyme Art Association and Professional Union of Artists of Russia. He has been privileged to be invited to exhibit at the following:

2009 Solo Show. Stairwell Gallery. Gunn Memorial Library, Washington, CT

2009 Members' Show Judge, Kent Art Association, Kent, CT.  

2008 Best in Show and Medal of Merit.  Kent Art Association, Kent, CT.

2008 From Another Window Show. Lorica Gallery, Andover, MA 

2008 Solo show. Kent Memorial Library, Kent, CT

2007-2008 Members' Shows, President Show, Kent Art Association, Kent, CT. 5 Awards of Excellence

2007 Anthony E. Wallace Memorial Award. Kent Art Association, Kent, CT. 

2007-2008 Members' Shows, Lyme Art Association. Old Lyme, CT 

2006 56th Annual SideWalkArtShow, Art Society of Old Greenwich, CT, Award, 2nd Oil

2005 Two Artists from Russia, Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, CT

2004-2006 Washington Art Association Members’ Exhibition, Washington Depot, CT

2005-2006 Spring Art Show, Woodbury Town Hall, Woodbury, CT

2004 Medicine and Art Show, Woodbridge, CT

2004 Yale Art Place Show, New Haven, CT

2003 Vanguard Traditions in Contemporary Art of Tatarstan, State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia

2003 Doctors Paint, State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan, Russia

2002-2003 Spring Crown, Central Exhibition Hall of Artists’ Union of R.T. Kazan, Russia

2001-2002 Young Artists’ Exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall of Artists’ Union of R.T. Kazan, Russia

1997-2002 Faculty Art Show, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia  

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