Refat Mamutov was born in Uzbekistan in 1966. He graduated from the Pedagogical University with a degree in teacher of fine arts and drawing in Nizhny Tagil (Russia) in 1990.
He currently teaches fine arts and photography at this university. Since 2001, Refat has been a member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia. He is also a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture of the Sverdlovsk region. Since 2012, Refat has been actively engaged in artistic photography (he mastered the art of photography on his own). In 2015, he took part in an international photo contest for the first time. Since then, Refat annually participates in numerous photo contests around the world, in many of them he has won prizes and honorable mentions by the jury of competitions. His works were awarded prizes at the International Photography Awards in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2023; PX3 Prix De La Photography Paris in 2020; Moscow International Foto Awards in 2015 and 2017; Neutral Density Photography Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017; Monochrome Photography Awards in 2015 and 2018.