TAMUNA MELIKISHVILI
LIST OF EXHIBITIONS
(b. 1965)
EDUCATION
1984–1989 Faculty of Art History, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
1983-1986 Faculty of Painting, Tbilisi State University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1993 ‘Return to Tipasa’- Gallery Orient, Tbilisi, Georgia
1998 ‘Scoop’- Gallery Chardin, Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 ‘Today’- Gallery Kopala, Tbilisi, Georgia
2011 ‘Genghis Khan in a Pizzeria’- Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 ‘Escape’- Gamrekeli Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 Solo Exhibition- Art Café Sfumato, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 ‘The Sound of Rails’- joint project of Opera Design & Gala Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 ‘Headwind’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 ‘One Quarter of the Day’- Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 ‘Fragments’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 ‘Between Blue and Violet’- Georgian Furniture Underground, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 ‘Dagny’s Tbilisi Holidays’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 ‘Taming’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 ‘Adam and Humans’ Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 ’Gender and Politics’- Tbilisi Marriott Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 ’12 Zodiac Signs’- stained-glass sketches for private interior, Tbilisi, Georgia
2008 ‘Installation based on The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’- Art-Gen Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 ‘Open Up’- Ethnographic Museum , Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 ‘Regional tour- You Cannot Change the Heartbeat of My Country’ (conceptual art, CAC) , Georgia
2011 ‘Tserovani: Against the Dawn’- FestiNova Garikula, Garikula, Georgia
‘Free Fall’- Artisterium , Tbilisi, Georgia
2012 ‘4 + 1’- Vanda Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2013 ‘Point as Circle; — National Public Library, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 ‘Group exhibition for the opening of Gallery Giraffe’- Giraffe Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2014 ‘Illustrations to The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’ Simon Janashia National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 ‘Group exhibition’- Gallery Sfumato, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 ‘Exhibition of Georgian Artists’- Haifa & Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 ‘Group exhibition’- Pirosmani Museum, Mirzaani, Georgia
2017 ‘Drawing Club’- Film Studio Pavilion, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 ‘Trouvez la Femme’- Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 ‘Group exhibition’- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2019 ‘Art Tent’- First Official Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia
2021 ‘The Smell of Abkhazia: Four Artists Exhibition’ Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 ‘Fiesta’ -Gallery 9, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 ‘Beyond the Surface’ - Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
ART FAIRS AND AUCTIONS
2017 Beijing International Biennale
2018 Yerevan Art Fair
2019 Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF)- Vernissage Gallery.
2022 Tbilisi Art Fair (TAF)- Vernissage Gallery.
2023 Georgian and Armenian Contemporary Art- BONHAM’S AUCTION HOUSE. Lot. 22 ‘TWINS’.
FILM & DESIGN
1990-1991 ‘Celebration’
‘New Year’- (dir. Keti Gujabidze), VGIK diploma projects- Set Designer.
1992 ‘Sarkmeli , Film Journal Designer.
1998 The Foolish Pomegranate Tree (dir. Péter Mészáros)- Costume Designer (Hungary–Georgia co-production) .
1999 ‘From Primitivism to Pop Art’ Co-author, Open Society Georgia; National Picture Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2002 Etude No. 6 (dir. Giorgi Beridze)- Screenwriter & Production Designer.
2006 Sad Voices of a Sunny Country - Director & Production Designer of the Akhaltsikhe segment (documentary)
2008 Green Tango (Niko Gomelauri)- Production Designer (music video)
2010 What You Remember from Childhood (dir. Pako Svimonishvili)- Production Designer.
2023 Illustration for Selma Lagerlöf’s book ‘Christ Legends’- Sulakauri Publishing.
ACHIEVMENTS
1998 First Prize, for the photograph ‘Red Frame’- (Open Society Georgia Photo Competition)
2009–2020 Art History Teacher- Nata Buachidze Studio, Tbilisi, Georgia.