After graduating from the Faculty of Painting of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Giorgi Roinishvili  started working in the editorial office of the magazine „Dila” (Morning) in 1947. He continued to be its artistic editor for four decades. He left us dozens of paintings…

Nugzar Natenadze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts from 2000–2005. Since 1990, he has actively participated in projects and group exhibitions. His exhibitions are held in Tbilisi: “Old Gallery”, 2004; “Vanda”, 2005; Gallery “Vernisage”, 2006; and gallery “Gamrekeli”. Nugzar Natenadze mostly employs oil painting…

Nana Tsintsadze graduated from the Faculty of Graphics of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1971 and has been actively participating in local and international biennales and exhibitions. Her work is mainly focused on graphics. She uses etching techniques, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, and mixed media.…

Irina Stenberg was educated in Tbilisi. In the late 1920s she entered the world of the Russian artistic elite. In the 1930s she returned to Georgia and began doing artistic work for local theatres. In order to do so, however, she had to renounce her…

Klara Kvees was born in Tbilisi to an ethnic Latvian family. In 1921 she entered the Tbilisi Art Academy, from which she was later expelled for her “infatuation with modernist art”. In addition to painting and graphic art, she also did theatre set design and…

Gogi Tsereteli holds a distinct place among Georgian graphic artists of the 1960s and 1970s. The artist created many easel paintings and graphics, but since the 2000s, he has been more involved in book design, creating illustrations, and ex libris. In 1972, Gogi Tsereteli graduated…

Tamuna Melikishvili studied at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University’s Faculty of Chemistry while also taking painting classes at Levan Chogoshvili’s workshop. In 1989, she graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts with a degree in the Faculty of Art History and Theory. Since the…

Ema Lalaeva-Ediberidze started painting at a very young age. She entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Art in 1921. In 1924-28 she continued her studies at the academy’s graphic design department. Starting in the 1930s she tried her hand in almost all media of art.…

Nana Tchurghulia is a graphic artist, book designer, and illustrator. Her artistic work also includes ceramics and metalworking. She was a graphic designer at the Institute of Aesthetics from 1974 to 1976, as well as a “Dila” (Morning) magazine designer-illustrator. At different times, she collaborated with various…

Lali Lomtadze works in easel painting and graphics. She creates book illustrations and ex-libris, and works in the field of film / TV design. From 1975 to 1979, she studied at the Film/TV Faculty of the Department of Fine Arts of the Tbilisi State Academy…

Malkhaz Kukhashvili, an Honored Artist of Georgia, began his artistic career in the late 1960s. He mainly works in the field of drawing. He has been the art director of numerous fiction, musical, documentary, and stage plays for the Rustaveli Theatre. He has made several…

Born in the village of Sakao, Kutaisi province of the Russian Empire. After graduating from the Gori educational institution, he studied at the Tbilisi Theological Seminary, attended higher education courses in Tbilisi. In 1925, Gordeziani studied at Vkhutemas (ВХУТЕМАС) in Moscow, and in 1928 he…