Said Atabekov is a Kazakhstani artist in the fields of installation, performance and video art, and photography.
Atabekov was born in 1965 in Bes Terek in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan.
After his studies at the Shymkent Art College, he continued with the education of upcoming artists and the organization of exhibits of their work.
[1] He began his career when the introduction of perestroika in the Soviet Union which enabled him to make use of the enlarged possibilities of artistic freedom.
In this time he founded the collective Kyzyl Traktor (Red Tractor) and experimented with international modernism.