Sopho Chkhikvadze was born in 1972 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied art at the Nikoladze Art College, before going on to complete a masters degree at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. She lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Sopho Chkhikvadze mainly works in…

Levan Tsutskiridze was a Georgian monumentalist artist, illustrator, and painter of frescoes in the Sioni Cathedral, Tbilisi. Tsutskiridze illustrated The Knight in the Tiger’s Skin, a poem published in Berlin in German translation. It was also published in Tbilisi, Moscow, Yerevan, and Japan. He was…

Natela Iankoshvili studied from 1937 until 1943 at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. She later became a member of the Union of Artists. Her teachers were Lado Gudiashvili, Davit Kakabadze, and Sergo Kolubadze. She mainly worked in painting and also she was a graphic…

Maia Naveriani was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied under Gia Edzgveradze before going through strict social realism education at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. After moving to London she found her own unique voice in drawing, broaching feminist issues with humor, self irony…

Levan Mindiashvili is a Georgian born visual artist living and working in Brooklyn and Tbilisi. He holds his BFA in Sculpture from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and MFA in Crossed Media from The National University of Arts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his awards…

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.…