Otar Chkhartishvili
B. 1938, Kobuleti, Georgia.
D. 2006, Rustavi, Georgia.
Education
1960 Gets admitted to the State Academy of Art in Tbilisi.
Chkahrtishvili was expelled from from the state academy of arts three times and was admitted back each time.
He gdaruated with honors in 1966.
Solo Exhibitions
1957 First solo exhibition, cinema foyer, Makaharadze, Georgia.
1973 Solo exhibition, Cinema Khudojestvenaya, Moscow, Russia.
1973 Exhibotion of one artwork, Artist’s house, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1981 Solo exhibition, Artist’s house, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2005 Paintings, Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2006 Memorial exhibition, Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2016 Istambul, 20 years later, IArt Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2016 Solo Exhibition, TBC Art Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021 My yard, Bughadze Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2023 Art inspired by freedom, National gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2026 Otar Chkhartishvili: Works from Hans Heiner Buhr’s private collection, Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Group Exhibitions
1957 Exhibition of childrens’ art, New Dehli, India.
1959 Exhibition of the artists’ union, Moscow, Russia.
1962 Unsanctioned open air exhibition of young artists on Rustaveli avenue, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1967 Spring Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1974 Bulldozer exhibition, Belyayevo urban forest, Moscow, Russia.
1975 Unsanctioned exhibition of nonconformist artists, Alexander Gletzer’s apartment, Moscow, Russia.
1976 Spring exhibition, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1977 Group Exhibition, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1986 First exhibition of Caucasian artists, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1988 Exhibition of Georgian Avant-Garde, Artist’s house, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1988 Exhibition of Georgian Avant-Garde, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
1990 Exhibition of Georgian Avant-Garde, Moscow, Russia.
1991 Three Georgian Artists, Mziuri, Moscow, Russia.
1996 Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Artists, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1997 Artistic group NIKO, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1998 Otar Chkhartishvili and Hans Heiner Buhr, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
1999 Three generations: 70s, 80s, 90s, National Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2000 Counterculture, Chancellary of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2021 Art inspired by freedom: Georgian nonconformists, Sighnaghi National Museum, Sighnaghi, Georgia.
2022 Locating Georgia Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet union, Zimmerli museum of art, New Jersey, USA.
