Aleksandre (Avto) Mosiashvili was born in Dusheti. He continued his studies at the Tbilisi State Academy, majoring in Fine Arts, after completing his studies at Iakob Nikoladze Art School. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1969. In 1986 he received a gold prize at…

Kako Topuria is an art historian, with knowledge of traditional Georgian monumental painting, sculpture, embossing, enamel, and ceramics. Based on Georgian emotional realism and a subjective approach to reality, the demonstration of Kako’s pictorial culture is revealed in an individual, exquisite style and involves primitivism,…

Sculptor, graphic artist, painter and illustrator, theater and film designer, Tamara Abakelia was the first female sculptor in Georgia, who created a landmark example of a large-scale  statuary.   While studying at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art, young Tamar attracted the attention of Iakob…

Otar Jishkariani is an Honored Artist of Georgia and one of the prominent representatives of the 50s of the 20th century.During the four decades of his work, his main concern was to raise the artistic level of contemporary Georgian books. He also worked in painting…

Levan Urushadze after graduating from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1990, he started his exhibition activity in Georgia and abroad in the United States (New York) and various European cities (Berlin, Zurich, Lisbon, Monaco, Amsterdam, Rome, Moscow). He participated in numerous exhibitions; among…

Karaman Kutateladze in 1983, graduated from the Faculty of Painting of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in Ucha Japaridze’s studio. After graduating from the Academy, he began his active pedagogical activities. During different periods, he taught painting at the faculties of film, restoration, and…

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…

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…

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.…

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…