Projects

2023-2024 Petroglyph Park "Arkalan" (Botanical Garden of Almaty and Public Foundation "Petroglyph Hunters")

2020-2024 Visitor Center "Ayusai": Creation of petroglyphs on stones and rocks

2019 Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Permanent exhibition on stones at the museum entrance

1988-1991 Artist at the Republican Industrial Association "Kazkhudozhprom"

Exhibitions

2024 September 21 - December 21 Collaboration “A Warm Welcome: Felt Painting by Jeanelle Millefleurs and Stone Engravings by Sanzhar Zhubanov” (Tian Shan Gallery, Almaty)

2024 July 12 - August 31 “Fire.Stars.Stones.” (Performance “Contemplation of Fire” at Visitor Center “Altyn-Emel”)

2023 November 29 - December 16 “Cosmos” (Paris, 8th arrondissement, City Hall Gallery)

2023 October “Turkic Petroglyphs, Clan Symbols Tamga, and Runic Writing” (Bern, Switzerland)

2023 October 8 - February 8, 2024 Collaboration of Painting and Poetry: Exhibition by Jeanelle Millefleurs “Blossoming” and Poetic Installation by Sanzhar Zhubanov “Dreams of Green Hills” (Tian Shan Gallery)

2023 September “Turkic Petroglyphs, Clan Symbols Tamga, and Runic Writing” (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2023 June-August “Stars and Stones” (Visitor Center Altyn-Emel)

2023 March 4 - May 14 “Children of the Deer ‘See’ You” (Tian Shan Gallery, Almaty)

2020 November 7 - January 7 “AkrapovichTime” (Tian Shan Gallery, Almaty)

2019 ArtParis2019 (Grand Palais, Paris, 2019)

2019 Presentation of Stone Engravings at the Opening of the Exhibition “Colors of the Great Steppe” at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris

2019 Exhibition within the International Ethno-Cultural Festival “Great Steppe – The World of Nomads”

2019 “Nomadic Heart” (National Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty)

2018 “Reincarnatio” (Kazakhstan, Almaty)

2018 Exhibition within the International Conference “Enlightened Islam and the enaissance: From Farabi, Baghdad, and Cordoba through European Monasteries - to the Culture of Knowledge” (Center for Cultural Convergence under the auspices of UNESCO, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

Articles and Publications about the Artist:

Alain Cardenas-Castro et Christophe Comentale (Sciences & art contemporain) De l’Asie nippone au Kazakhstan, trois artistes éclectiques https://alaincardenas.com/blog/de-lasie-nippone-au-kazakstan-trois-artistes- eclectiques/

Alain Cardenas-Castro et Christophe Comentale (Sciences & art contemporain)Sanzhar est un artiste plasticien kazakh https://alaincardenas.com/blog/sanzhar-est-un-artiste-plasticien-kazakh/

Alain Cardenas-Castro et Christophe Comentale (Sciences & art contemporain) Art Paris 2019 édition particulière https://alaincardenas.com/blog/art-paris-2019-une- edition-particuliere/

Renat Tashkinbaev (TengriNews) "Kazakh Alchemist: How an Almaty Resident Found His Philosopher's Stone" https://tengrinews.kz/article/kazahstanskiy- alhimik-almatinets-nashel-svoy-filosofskiy-1117/

Renat Tashkinbaev (TengriNews) "Meditation and Petroglyphs on Stones: How a Jiu-Jitsu Coach Became an Artist" https://tengrinews.kz/picture_art/meditatsiya- petroglifyi-kamnyah-trener-djiu-djitsu-stal-365886/

24 KZ "Petroglyphs of Kazakhstan Were Presented in Paris" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujP9GaESazU

24 KZ "Kazakh Artist’s Works Featured at a Global Fair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccy3q0AL5dk

ABAI TV "Eternal Values: Sanzhar Zhubanov"https://abaitv.kz/ru/videos/824

ALGA PETERBURG "Sanzhar Zhubanov – Dimash, Kazakhs, the Phenomenon of Kazakhstan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2wuNhgvXkё

Sarsembayeva A.Zh., Zhubanova A.A. "MODERN NOMADIC CREATIVITY: ARTISTIC LANGUAGE, MENTALITY, VISUAL MEANS" https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/sovremennoe-nomadicheskoe-tvorchestvo- hudozhestvennyy-yazyk-mentalnost-izobrazitelnye-sredstva

Sports and Coaching Activity: Qualifications

1990 Black Belt in ITF Taekwondo (First Dan)

1995-2000 Black Belt in Gojyu Ryu Karate (First, Second, Third, Fourth Dan)

2015-2018 Blue and Purple Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Coaching Achievements Throughout my coaching career, I have trained champions and prizewinners in city, regional, national, and international competitions in karate, taekwondo, wushu, jiu-jitsu, and grappling, including:

2017 Two Gold Medals and One Bronze Medal at the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship (UAE, Abu Dhabi)

2016 Gold and Bronze Medals at the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship (UAE, Abu Dhabi)

2015 Gold and Bronze Medals at the World Jiu-Jitsu Championship (UAE, Abu Dhabi)

1998 Gold and Silver Medals at the World Karate Championship in Naha, Okinawa (Japan)

Personal Sports Achievements
From 1981 to 2008 – Champion and Prizewinner of Kazakhstan and International Karate Competitions
1992 – Silver Medalist at the European Karate Championship (France, Mulhouse)

1998 – Bronze Medalist at the World Karate Championship (Japan, Okinawa, Naha)