ELDAR KAVSHBAIA
Date of Birth 24.03.1964
1979 - 1983
Qualification – Painter –Artist
Teaching Institution - Giorgi Shervashidze Fine Art college, Sokhumi, Georgia
1986 – 1992
Qualification – Painter –Artist
Teaching Institution - Tbilisi State Academy of Arts/ State Sector
Working Experience
1988-1990
Activity/Position - Pedagogue
Name of the Employer - Sokhumi Institute of Arts
Activity/Type of Sector - College/ State Sector
2007-2014
Activity/Position - Invited Pedagogue
Name of the Employer - Tbilisi Apolon Kutateladze Academy of Arts: 22, Griboedovi Str., Tbilisi
Activity/Type of Sector – Higher Educational Institute/State Sector
Creative Activities:
Awards
2008 - First prize in the Best Portrait of the year competition, Tbilisi, Georgia
2000 - 2nd Prize for the best canvas of the year, Christian Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2002 - National Prize named after Giorgi Shervashidze, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2014 - Penza Simposium Grand Prize
2014 - First prize in the Best Painting of the year competition, Tbilisi, Georgia
Exhibitions:
1992- “Georgian Days” Exhibition, Officers’ House, Leningrad, Russia
1996- Group Exhibition, Central Artists House, Moscow, Russia
2001- Artists Joint Exhibition, Niko Pirosmani House-Museum in Tbilisi
2002- Personal Exhibition, Nuclear Security State Committee in Prague, Czech Republic
2002- “Abkhazian and Georgian Moments” at the Modern Art Gallery, Prague Czech Republic
2002- Niko Pirosmani in Contemporary Georgian Art of XX Century, National Gallery of Art, Tbilisi
2003- International Art Festival – Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany
2003- Symposium, gallery “VARLA, Kutaisi, Georgia
2004- Art Zurich International, Zurich, Switzerland (represented by Le Siants Gallery)
2004- Art Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (represented by Le Siantsi Gallery)
2005- Personal Exhibition in National Gallery of Art, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006- Forbidden Towns, American Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia.
2007- Participate in Art Festival in Dublin, Ireland
2007- Art Edinburgh Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008- Children of war group charity exhibition in Tbilisi, Georgia.
2008– Art Edinburgh Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh, Scotland.
2008– Affordable Art Fair, Paris, France
2009– Artists from Sukhumi, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2009– Chelsea Art Fair, London, UK.
2009– Glasgow Art Fair, UK
2010– TBC Personal Exhibition “Episodes of painters”
2011– Action “We Will Return” Batumi
2011- Youth Art Center “Sameba Chruch” Personal Exhibition “City of Hope”
2013-2014- Penza International festival of Sculpture and Fine Arts
2017 year group exhibition in Strasbourg.
2018 year exhibition in Art modern gallery.
2019 year Georgian cultural days in Spain
2020 year plein air in Tbilisi, Batumi, Bazaleti.
2021 year Abkhazia our dream, exhibition in gallery Art tend
Eldar Kavshbaia Wors is kept in various galleries and private collections worldwide
Member of the Union, Society and Organization :
Since 2000 – Member of the Union of Artists.
Since 2001 – Member of International organization GEFA
Since 2005 – Professor of Tbilisi State Academy of Art
Catalogue
2005- Personal Exhibition “Folded Umbrellas” Gallery Hobby, Tbilisi
2005- Manchester Art Show, UK
2005- CAFÉ 2005 – Contemporary Art Fair Edinburgh, Scotland
2006- Modern Art Melbourne, Australia