LEVAN LAGIDZE is a national treasure i n 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, 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. He is widely collected worldwide. Coming up in 2024, Georgia’s leading museum of fine arts - the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi often referred to simply as The Art Museum - will open post-renovation with a large-scale exhibition of Lagidze’s works.
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;
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