Born in 1964 in Aktyubinsk. In 1979 to 1983, studied at the Department of Art and Design of the Aktyubinsk School of Cultural Education, from 1984 till 1990, at the Byelorussian State Theatrical Art Institute of Minsk (Department of Easel Painting). Member of the Artists' Union of RK from 1990. Since 1993, he has been a teacher at the Arts Faculty of the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University. Lives and works in Almaty.     Marat Bekeyev would rather effectively and enthusiastically work simultaneously on several groups of plots and language systems, look for heraldic lucidity of the nomad image, be it a shepherd, warrior or philosopher, catch the mystic bonds of the Wanderer with the world space, the mesmerising man in love with motion, aspire to touch the unintelligible and embarrassing intensions of the collective unintentional. He would choose between the tribal, national, collective and characteristic, individual and personal. His works had now a clear decorative basis, now pictorial plays of colour stains, where contours and gestures were defined by a thin and nervous line. The picturesque surface presented a colourful foggy space, where the painter's hand now gingerly, now resolutely kept track of the outlines of slipping away figures, determined associative lines of images that appeared to him alone. Several years elapsed and amidst pictures of M. Bekeyev there appeared Kanbak (Tumble-Weed). There a man with balls of this strange plant flying by is plunged into the space of the world and given to the stream of time. Now time for the painter has come to start wandering, however not in the Earth's space, but in inconceivable depths of his memory. Lurking there are precious reminiscences of child's feelings and experiences of real events, which after all this time disappeared from the context of multi-layer life and turned into edges of a bewitching crystal casting its magic light over all the plenitude of being.     Small canvases concerned with the aul childhood appear to be lucid memoirs started by the painter on the threshold of his forty years. These vivid pictures, which preserve smells and sounds, facts and gestures, sappy shades and dense light are images and signs of the painter's personal life. Every picture gives an idea about the painter's Ego which joins everything: tenderness and severity, trustfulness and irony, wisdom and simplicity, seriousness and gaiety, pliancy and resilience, sensitiveness and rationality. These life (figurative) portrayals indicate the painter's inclinations to see the world, even in the light of day, through the prism of symbols, which send one to deep-laid senses of existence