Tedo Rekhviashvili

Tedo Rekhviashvili

Born 1990, Georgia

Lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia

Tedo Rekhviashvili is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking, and installation. His practice explores memory, identity, and perception, rooted in personal narrative and post-Soviet experience. Through a distinctive visual language that merges expressive abstraction with fi gurative precision, his works unfold as layered compositions—where symbolic forms, fragmented landscapes, and surreal structures construct immersive and psychologically charged environments.

He holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. His background in fi lm storyboard production, including collaborations with Giga Agladze and David Lynch, informs the cinematic depth and narrative structure of his compositions.

Recent solo exhibitions include Memory, Power & Temptations (2024), Geography of Memory (2025), and Between Land and Eye (2026). His work has been presented internationally, including at Sotheby’s and the Venice Biennale.

Rekhviashvili’s works are held in both institutional and private collections, distinguished by their strong narrative presence, material complexity, and ability to bridge intimate storytelling with monumental visual impact.

Artist Statement

My work moves between painting, printmaking, and installation, exploring memory, identity, and perception through the lens of personal narrative and post-Soviet experience. I build a visual language that merges abstraction with figurative precision—layering symbolic forms, fragmented landscapes, and surreal structures to create immersive, psychologically charged environments.

For me, an artwork should always be filled with question marks—it should demand deep analysis and offer the viewer an opportunity to connect with both conscious and subconscious impulses. I am interested in the moment when something that appears defined begins to dissolve, revealing an abstract dimension that cannot be immediately explained. In this space, the work becomes a direct channel, where mental and emotional information resonates instantly, forming a connection between the image and the viewer’s inner world.

As both a person and an artist, I do not see our time as sacred or predetermined, but as a time of reality—a moment in which we are challenged to perceive the world as it truly is, and to engage with it consciously.

I am deeply interested in philosophy, psychology, physics, and astronomy. These fields shape my thinking about existence across time and humanity’s place within a larger cosmic structure. Through my practice, I seek to create works that are both intimate and monumental—spaces where personal memory intersects with broader questions about the nature of reality and our shared human condition.

Education

2018 – 2020 New York Academy of Art

MFA program, Fine art; full academy scholar Award

2012 – 2014 Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

Master’s degree (faculty of Graphics/Printmaking) full scholarship

2008 – 2012 Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

Bachelor’s degree (faculty of Graphics/Printmaking) awarded four  year governmental scholarship and three-year scholarship for high Academic performance.

Exhibitons

2026 Group Exhibition, Imagining Life After Land, Nauru Pavilion, 61 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2026 Solo Exhibition, Between Land and Eye, Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

2026 Group Exhibition, Edition 2: Self Image, Identica Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia

2025 Group Exhibition, Im-Permanence, Ellia Gallery, Paris, France

2025 Solo Exhibition, Geography of Memory, Bentley, Tbilisi Georgia

2025 Group Exhibition, Encoded Emotions: The Future of Form, Milan, Italy

2025 Group Exhibition, Parallel to the Protest, Tbilisi, Georgia

2024 Solo Exhibition, MEMORY, POWER & TEMPTATIONS, Silk Factory, Georgia

2023 Group Exhibition, INK FUSION, Georgian Museum of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia

2022 Group Exhibition, DREAM BABY DREAM, Venice, Italy

2020 Group Exhibition, Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art – New York, USA

2019 Group Exhibition, Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s – New York, USA

2019 Group Exhibition, Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art – New York, USA

2018 Group Exhibition, Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art – New York, USA

2017 Group Exhibition, Vanda Art Gallery – Tbilisi, Georgia

2015 Group Exhibition, Ex-libris, Chubinashvili Centre, Ministry of Culture – Tbilisi

2015 Group Exhibition, Vanda Art Gallery – Tbilisi, Georgia

2015 Group Exhibition and Contest, Oftalmij Art Gallery – Tbilisi, Georgia

2014 Solo Exhibition, Georgian National Museum – Tbilisi, Georgia

2014 Solo Exhibition, The University of Georgia – Tbilisi, Georgia