Almas Orakbayev was born in Almaty, Kazakhsan, in 1985. He received a BA from the Kazakh National Academy of Art in 2009 in Fine Art, Painting. Almas was awarded a academy scholarship to practice in Paris in 2007. After his graduating he worked at Almaty college of Applied and Decorative Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan as a teacher of painting and drawing. In 2010 he was awarded a Kazakhstan government scholarship to study in Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California. MFA, Fine Art, Painting.