Zurab Nizharadze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1955. From 1964 to 1971, he taught in the Academy’s Drawing Department, and from 1982 to 1987, he served as its rector. He is a distinguished representative of the generation of Georgian artists from…

George (Gogi) Alexi-Meskhishvili was born in 1941 into the family of renowned architect Lado Alexi-Meskhishvili. In 1967 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, and since that time has actively participated in exhibitions. Beginning from 1971, Gogi Alexi-Meskhishvili served as stage designer of…

Albert Dilbarian was born in Tbilisi in 1928. He was a painter who studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in the Department of Painting from 1946 to 1952. His oeuvre, which includes portraits, still lifes, landscape, and genre paintings, is distinguished by original…

Givi Toidze belongs to that generation of artists, who actively appeared on easel painting area in the sixties of the twentieth century. His creativity perfectly reflects the considerable progress, occurring at that time. Givi Toidze cognized in the workshop of his grandfather, outstanding Georgian artist…

Reno Turkia was born in Sokhumi, in 1926. He graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1966. He was teaching at the Academy 1959. After 1940 he was actively participated in local and international exhibitions. Reno Turkia main medium was painting. His portraits…

Guram Gelovani graduated from Tbilisi Art Academy in 1954. The generation of artist Guram Gelovani, who has been on the creative scene since the 1950s, lived and worked within the Soviet system. The artistic practice of this generation also functioned in an environment regulated by…

Levan Songulashvili is a painter, multimedia, video and installation artist, was born in Tbilisi. At present, he lives in New York and manages art projects in both USA and Europe. Levan started painting in his early childhood. In 2013, after graduation of Tbilisi State Academy…

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…

Leopold Dzadzamidze was born in Zugdidi on November 20, 1922. He is one of the prominent figures of Georgian Soviet painting, whose remarkable oeuvre is almost entirely rendered in an impressionistic style. Within socialist realism and post-Stalinist painting, impressionism was the only acceptable European movement…