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…

Misha Shengelia was born into the family of scientists. His grandfather – botanist Niko Ketskhoveli, was the rector of Tbilisi State University in 1945-1953. Alumnus of the Geology Department of the Tbilisi State University, he worked for some time at the Institute of Geology of…

Misha Gogrichiani graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1992. His paintings first appeared in Georgian exhibition spaces in the early 1990s, and viewers remember him for his minimalist, naive painting style. The artist moved to the United States in the late 1990s.…

Theater and movie artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. One of those modernists whose work has not been studied at all, although he can be considered one of the reformers of Georgian theatrical painting. His merit is great, as he widely spread the new scenographic language in…

Giorgi Gegetchkori is a painter, teacher and the full Professor at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. He graduated from the Academy in 1983. Giorgi Gegetchkori, a representative of the realistic school of painting, made a name for himself principally as a portraitist. He created…

Kote Sulaberidze is a representative of the 1990s generation of artists. His works first were shown in the late 1990s. Kote Sulaberidze’s diploma work demonstrated attempts to synthesize visual and verbal information. Kote Sulaberidze’s story begins unusually: when enrolling in the academy, he was asked…