ART: Lado Pochkhua will opening an exhibition in Tbilisi soon.

Lado likes to emphasize that he’s a product of good Soviet academic training. I’ve never met an artist so fully versed in the history of all the art that came before him. He graduated from the Sokhumi College of Art in 1994 and the Tbilisi Academy of Art in 2001. He has had personal exhibitions in TMS Gallery and Old Gallery in Tbilisi, and has participated in ten major group exhibitions, including one in the Georgian Embassy in London, UNESCO in Paris, and in the Tbilisi History Museum (Carvasla) and the National Gallery of Art. He has participated in international projects in Russia and Azerbaijan, and has lived and worked in Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, the United States, and Hungary, where he currently resides.


Lado Pochkhua, Georgian, born 1970.
Biography
Vladimir Pochkhua was born in Sokhumi, Georgia in 1970. He graduated from the Sokhumi College of Art in 1994 and the Tbilisi Academy of Art in 2001. He has had personal exhibitions in TMS Gallery and Old Gallery in Tbilisi, and has participated in ten major group exhibitions, including in the Georgian Embassy in London, UNESCO in Paris, and in the Tbilisi History Museum (Carvasla) and the National Gallery of Art. He has participated in international projects in Russia and Azerbaijan, and has lived and worked in Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, the United States, and Hungary, where he currently resides.
Jeff Taylor, art dealer, taylorartadvisors.com



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Lado Pochkhua
Email: krotart@gmail.com

Education
MFA 2001 Painting and Printmaking Tbilisi State Art Academy Tbilisi, Georgia
BFA 1993 Studio Art and Instruction Sukhumi College of Art, Sukhumi, Georgia

Exhibitions and Private Commissions
2008 Gardens, Ships, and Lessons, K. Petrys Ház Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (solo show)
Exhibition of Georgian Artists, Festival OFF EUROPA ditorei Gallerie NBL, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Moscow University Building, mural in private collection, Dublin, Ireland
2004 Best Artists of Georgia, Georgian Embassy, London
Mural with Figure, private collection, Baku, Azerbaijan. Featured in Salon Architecture
Magazine, Russia
2003 Curriculum Vitae: a retrospective of 20th century Georgian art, Caravasla Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2001 21 Georgian Artists, UNESCO, Paris, France
Orientalism: Inside and Outside Biennale State Exhibition Hall S. Bakhul-Zade, Baku, Azerbaijan

Gallery Affiliation
1999-2004 Old Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Works on Paper, 2004 (solo show)
Invented and Borrowed Pictures, 2001 (solo show)
Utopia: Conceptualizing Thomas Moore, 2001 (group show)
Magical Geography, 2000 (solo show)
Paintings and Graphic Works, 1999 (two-person show)

2002-2003 Gallery Club 22, Tbilisi, Georgia
Waiting for the Barbarians, 2003 (solo show)
Trivial, 2002 (two-person show)

1998- 2002 TMS Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
Ultramarine, 1999 (group show)
Magical Geometry, 1998 (solo show)

Conferences and Awards
2006 20th International Sculpture Centre Conference, Cincinnati, OH
2000 18th International Sculpture Centre Conference, Houston, Texas

Best Graphic Artist of the Year, Georgia, for Illustrations for the Epic Poem of the Narts