Member of the Union of Artists of the Republic of Kazakhstan since 2003, sculptor. Alibek Nurlanovich Mergenov was born in 1976 in Almaty. In 1995 he graduated from the Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after O. Tansykbayev, Almaty. In 1999 he graduated from the Temirzhan Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts, Almaty.. In 2017 he received the Grand Prix of the First Eurasian Biennale in Astana. Lives and works in Almaty.