Muhadin Ismailovich Kishev (Kabardian: КIыщ Мухьэдин, Russian: Мухадин Исмаилович Кишев; born 1939) is a Circassian artist from Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus.
Currently he lives in Spain and divides his time between his Studios in Moscow, Nalchik and Los Canyos de Meca in Andalusia.
His first exhibition was of literary portraits (Dostoevsky, Gogol and others) and took place in the school library at the age of eleven organised by the librarian Zoya Elgarova.
At the age of thirteen he joined the Art Club run by Andrei Lukich Tkachenko in the House of Pioneers in Nalchik and every Sunday walked the fourteen kilometres from his home to the capital.
He travelled to Gambia, Senegal, Scotland, Belgium and France and in 1997 was elected member of the Association of Russian artists in London.
[9] His work has been seen not only in Soviet Russia and the present day Russian Federation, but also in cultural centres in London: "Andalusia in the eyes of Muhadin Kishev".
Over 300 of his paintings are in private collections in Russia, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Finland, France, the United States, Latin America, Brazil, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the former Republics of the USSR and other countries of the world.