LEVAN LAGIDZE

(b. 1958, Tbilisi, Georgia)

LEVAN LAGIDZE is a national treasure is his native country of Georgia with work in the permanent collections of major museums in Georgia, Russia, and the United States.

Born in 1958 in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of the Soviet Union), Lagidze graduated from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1981. He founded and led an artist’s studio at the Tbilisi Artists’ House in 1983 and served as Chairman of Georgia´s Young Artists’ Union from 1986 to 1989. In 2011, he founded the Lagidze gallery in Tbilisi.

Public Collections

  • Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

  • The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

  • The Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia;

  • The National Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia;

  • The Batumi State Gallery, Batumi, Georgia;

  • The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, United States

  • The Gertsev Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

Private Collections

Levan Lagidze’s works are in private collections in Georgia, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and South Africa.

Select Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions

2024 - Retrospective, Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

2023 - Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, London, South Kensington, United Kingdom

2022 - Katrine Levin Galleries at Marie Jose Gallery, London, South Kensington, United Kingdom

2021 - Katrine Levin Galleries at D Contemporary, London, Mayfair, United Kingdom

2020 - Katrine Levin Galleries, exclusively online (due to COVID restrictions)

2019 - Katrine Levin Galleries at Zurcher Gallery, Soho, New York City, USA

2018 - Katrine Levin Galleries at La Galleria Pall Mall, London, St. James’s, United Kingdom

2016 – National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2012 – Modern Art Museum, Kuwait City

2011 – Opening of Lagidze Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2010 – Exhibition Hall of Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia

2007-10 -  Chardin Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2004-6, 1998, 1995 – TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1994 – Central House of Artists, presented by Gertsev Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1990 – Georgian Centre of Culture Mziuri, Moscow, Russia

1989 – House of Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia

Group exhibitions

2009 – Oc-Eo Art – Contemporary and Modern Fine Art, London, UK

2008 – The Alla Bulyanskaya Gallery, London, UK

2004 – Silent Auction to benefit the American Friends of Georgia – Doyle, New York, USA

1998 – ART SALON’98, Moscow, Russia

1997 – “Going Back”, TMS Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

1996 – Galerie Seidel am Domhof, Cologne, Germany

1994 – “The Bigining”. CA Global AC, Vienna, Austria

1994 – Georgian Art, Steiner Haus, Bonn, Germany

1993 – Georgian Art, Riviera Gallery, London, UK

1990 – Georgian School - Drouot Auction, Paris, France

1986 – Retrospective of Georgian Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia