The eminent graphic artist, founder of modern Georgian graphic art, People’s artist of the Georgian SSR, winner of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, Honored Art Worker of the Georgian SSR and Professor at the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Lado Grigolia is considered a major master of…

Leopold Dzadzamidze is one of the most prominent figures in the soviet Georgian painting. In socialistic realism and post-Stalinist painting out of European tendencies acceptable was only impressionistic style because this last one depicted the plot legibly for ordinary people and rejected avant-garde signs. Most…

Grigol Chirinashvili graduated from the Tbilisi Art Academy in 1943; He was a teacher at the same academy since 1965 (since 1982 – professor). He systematically participated in exhibitions. In 1978, he artistically decorated the Gurjaani Immigrant Memorial. Created images dedicated to the Tbilisi community,…

In 1936-1940 Ekaterine Bagdavadze studied on faculty of Fine Art at Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. She graduated from the faculty of painting in 1946. From 1948 she was a member of the Artists Union in Georgia. Ekaterine Bagdavadze was working in magazine “Nakaduli” as…

Sculptor and goldsmith, was born in 1941 in Bordjomi, Georgia. He spent his youth in Batumi with. He studied sculpture at the Art school of Tbilisi between 1958 and 1962. He left Georgia in 1962 for Moscow, where he started a career as a sculptor, while dreaming of becoming a goldsmith. In…

Robert Sturua is Georgian painter-monumentalist, People’s Artist of the Georgian SSR (1965). In 1933, he entered the Tbilisi Art Academy. In 1939, he continued his studies at the Moscow Surikov Art Institute at the faculty of monumental painting. His works include such examples as “Victory…

Eteri Chkadua  (born 1965 in Georgia) Is a artist and a designer. Currently she works and laves in  NYC, Kingston (Jamaica) and Tbilisi (Georgia). After  completing  Academy of Arts in Tbilisi , Georgia, Eteri married American linguist Kevin Tuite and moved to United States in 1988.…

Iakob Nikoladze was born in 1876 in Kutaisi. He was the first Georgian professional sculptor and the founder of the round sculpture school. Nikoladze was a People’s Artist of the USSR of Georgia, a People’s Artist of the USSR, and a full member of the…

Aleksander Tsimakuridze started his studies at the Caucasus Fine Arts Promotion School with Boris Fogel and Oskar Shmerling. Then he went to Moscow and studied painting in K. In Yuon’s studio. Later he entered the Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School, and in 1906 he…

Thea Gvetadze was born in Riga in 1971. In 1988-1993 she was graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Afterwards she continued studying at Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam, Netherlands). During 1994-2001 she studied at Dusseldorf State Art Academy in  Germany. Currently, artists lives and…

Sculptor, graphic artist, Gia Japaridze is an alumnus of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. He graduated from the faculty of sculpture in 1986 and completed his postgraduate study in 1972. Starting form 1970 he participated in lots of different exhibitions on both local and international…

Koki Makharadze birth in Ochamchire, Georgia. He graduated from Ap. Kutateladze Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1953. Since 1973, he has been teaching at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Important works: “Suvorov and Bagration in the Alps” (1952), “Battle of Aspindze (1961)”, large…