Vakhtang (Vati) Davitashvili

1946- Born in Kvareli on the 5th of January.

1964- Goes to study at the Kiev Aviation school.

1967- Quits the University and starts painting.

1967-68 – Works under the Georgian artist Avto Varazi. Later that year moves to Telavi where he lives until his passing on the 11th of may in 2000.

Group Exhibitions:

1967- Republican Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1969- Republican Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1969- Union Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Moscow, Russia.

1973- Private Exhibition of Dissident Artists, Moscow Russia.

1979- Republican Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Tbilisi, Georgia.

1979- Union Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Moscow, Russia.

1987- Exhibition of Self-taught Artists, Telavi, Georgia.

1994- Group Exhibition: Andrey Karpov, Alexander Tumanov and Vati Davitashvili, Moscow, Russia.

1996- 1st International Art Biennale, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2004- Classics of Nonconformist Art, Baia Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2005- Group Exhibition, Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2005- Exhibition of Nonconformist Art, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2010- ‘Pavements’ Memoirs’, Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2021- ‘Freedom-Inspired Art’ of Nonconformist Artists: Avto Varazi, Otar Chkhartishvili, Temo Japaridze, Amir Kakabadze, Vati Davitashvili, Avto Meskhi, Sighnaghi Museum, Sighnaghi, Georgia.

Solo Exhibitions:

1968- Telavi, Georgia.

1991- Tbilisi History Museum Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2003- Telavi, Georgia.

2004- Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2008- Exhibition opening of the new TBC Bank branch office. The Project was implemented at the initiative of the Vernissage Gallery. Sighnaghi, Georgia.

2011- Chamber Music Festival, Telavi, Georgia.

2018- Exhibition for inauguration of the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili. Telavi Theatre, Telavi, Georgia.

2023- Vakhtang (Vati) Davitashvili: Solo Exhibition, Vernissage Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia.

2023- Vati Davitashvili: Telavian Thristle, LC QUESSER, Tbilisi, Georgia.