Artist and public figure, the People’s Artist of Georgia, Ketevan Magalashvili was born in Kutaisi, Georgia in 1894. Between 1911 and 1915, she studied at the Tiflis School of Painting and Sculpture of the Caucasian Society. In 1914, she went to Moscow and began her…

Elene Akhvlediani (1901-1975) was a painter, graphic artist, book illustrator, and theater and cinema artist. Beyond her prolific output, she played a pivotal role in organizing events. She formed a group of Georgian women landscape painters who specialized in Plein Air art and initiated a…

Shalva Kikodze, one of the important representatives of Georgian modernism, was born in 1894 in the village of Bakhvi in Georgia. From 1902 to 1912, he studied at the Tbilisi Noble Gymnasium. In 1914, he went to Moscow with a scholarship from the Society for…

Vladimir (Lado) Gudiashvili, a Georgian painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, theater and cinema artist, book illustrator, People’s Artist of Georgia, and laureate of the Shota Rustaveli Prize, is one of the outstanding representatives of Georgian modernism.Lado Gudiashvili was born in 1896 in Tbilisi. From 1910 to…

Modernist Georgian artist David Kakabadze was at the same time an art theoretician, scientist, and inventor. His name is one of the most important in the history of 20th-century Georgian painting.David was born in 1889 in the village of Kukhi in Imereti. Soon, his family…

Giorgi (Gigo) Gabashvili – Georgian painter, graphic artist, and People’s Artist of Georgia (1929), was one of the founders of modern Georgian realistic painting.In 1882-1883, Gabashvili studied at the Kempen private art school in Tbilisi. He collaborated with the battle artist Franz Roubaud, who created…

Nino Lordkipanidze, after graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1964) (teachers were: architects – Archil Kurdiani, Ivane Chkhenkeli, Tony Kalandarishvili, artists: Sergo Kobuladze, Ucha Japaridze, Vasil Shukhaev), continued her studies at the Technical University of Prague (1969). And…

Tamaz Kakabadze (Kakacha) was a painter, graphic designer, and stage designer – one of the outstanding representatives of Georgian painting in the 80s of the 20th century. 1954-1996 he graduated from the Jacob Nikoladze art school; Faculty of Painting of Tbilisi Academy of Arts, workshop…

Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1979. She moved to the United States at the age of 14 and graduated with a degree in Photography from Bard College of New York in 2003. Currently she lives and works in Berlin, Germany.She has featured…

Lado Pochkhua is a Georgian artist who lives and works in New York. Pochkhua was born in Sukhumi, 1970 during the Soviet period. In 1993, he graduated from Sukhumi College of Art. During 1992-93 as a result of the military conflict in Abkhazia, the artist…

Sculptor Erekle Tsuladze, after graduating from public school, first graduated the Iakob Nikoladze Art College – Faculty of Graphics, then – Tbilisi State Academy ofArts, Faculty of Sculpture. Erekle’s first work, the statue called “Me, you and Batumi” was placed in Georgia in Batumi Boulevard…

In 1926-1928, Yoram Mamaladze studied at the art studio of Moses Toidze, and in 1928-1932 at the Tbilisi State Art Academy. He was G. Gabashvili and V. Lancere student. In 1940-1945, he worked as a teacher in the Tbilisi Art School, in 1945-1948 in the…