Guram Dolenjashvili

Guram Dolenjashvili (born 9 March 1943 in Kutaisi) is a Georgian painter often working in a monochrome technique. He is a Meritorious Artist of Georgia and an honorary member of Russian Academy of Arts (since 2004).
Dolenjashvili was born in Kutaisi. He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1968 where he studied in the shop of Lado Grigolia. He mostly lived in Kutaisi but travel led to Russian North, White Sea, Kamchatka and Chukotka. His works are exhibited in the Art Museum of Georgia, Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum, Russian Museum and many others.
Many of his works are landscapes made in black and white, using a graphite pencil or etching with slightly surrealist shifting of reality still he is often considered a follower of traditions Russian realist landscapers of Ivan Shishkin and Yuly Klever.
Now, Guram signed the agreement with Raffian Art to produce limited editions of giclees.
Featured personal exhibitions
Tixi Bay, 1979
Saint-Petersburg, 1984
Tbilisi. 1988
Moscow, Central House of Artists (TsDKh), 1996
“Logovaz” at Tverskaya St., “Mercedes Benz”, Moscow, 1998
Moscow, Foreign Trade Centre (Hammer Federation), 1998
Moscow, Parliament of Russia Federation, 1999
Moscow, The World Bank, 2000, 2001
Moscow, The Directorate of Exhibition and Auctions, the RF of Ministry Culture, 2003
International exhibitions
XIII Biennial exhibition of easel painting, Yugoslavia, 1979
Biennial of European Print (plate), Heidelberg, Germany, 1979
“Intergrafika-80”, Kraków, Poland, 1980
XIV Biennial exhibition of easel painting, Luibliana, Yugoslavia, 1981
International Poster Exhibition, Moscow, 1982
Biennial exhibition of easel painting, Muilouise, France, 1982
XV Biennial exhibition of easel painting, Luibliana, Yugoslavia, 1983
III Biennial exhibition of European Print (plate), Baden-Baden, Germany, 1983
Triennial exhibition “Artists against War”, Maidanek, Poland, 1985
Biennial exhibition of easel in Varna, Bulgaria, 1985
(Ist Place — “Silver Plate” and diploma)
II International Festival of Arts, Baghdad, Iraq, 1988
III Biennial exhibition of easel painting in Bhopal, Matia-Pradesh, India, 1995
II International Exhibition of easel painting, Kaliningrad (Kenigsberg), Russia 1996
International Arts Fair “The Art of XX century”, Art-Manezh, Moscow, Russia, 1996
I International Quadrienneal of graphics, Moscow, 1997
V International Arts Exhibition “Palette”, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1999
International Arts Fair, Art-Manezh, Moscow, 2000
III International Triennial of printing graphic, Ufa, Bashkortostan, 2001
Other exhibitions and auctions
Magnum association, Moscow, 1993 (auction)
Istoki Co., Moscow 1993-1994
Cohem City, FRG, 1994, 1995, 1996
“Russian village” at Niigata, Japan, 1995
Russian Culture Days in Delhi, India, 1995
“Russian Art Gallery at Vozdvizhenka”-personal exhibition, Moscow, 1996
Kufstein City, Austria, 1996
“Tetterode Grafik – 1997” contest, Holland (A Window to Europe, Moscow)
“Russian Artists tribute to Moscow”, Moscow, 1997
Gallery “World and colours”, London, England, 1999
Gallery “Galina”, London, England, 1999
Australia, EXPO-88
France, 1977
Sweden, 1984, 1985
Great Britain, 1977, 1978
Switzerland, 1985
USA, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984
Arts Fair of the socialist countries 1985, 1986, 1987
«InterArt-85», Poznan, Poland
Austria, 1980, 1985
«InterArt -86», Poznan, Poland
FRG, 1983, 1985
Los Angeles, USA, 1990 (auction)
Czechoslovakia, 1984, GDR, 1984
Great Britain, “Art/London-91” (auction)
Museums
State Tretyakov gallery
State Pushkin Museum
The Bakhzadeh Museum, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
State Oriental Arts Museum
State Russian Museum
Modern Art Museum, Cologne, Germany
Arts Museum, Canton, Ohio, USA
Chelyabinsk Picture Gallery
New Orleans Museum, Louisiana, USA
Museum of the Resistance, Brussels, Belgium
North Kazakhstan Oblast Museum of Dodgy Collection from Gularto Glasnost
People’s Museum, Poznan, Poland
Poznan Bureau of Modern Arts, Poznan, Poland
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Georgian National Museum, National Gallery
Central Museum of Revolution, Moscow
Tbilisi State Museum of Arts
Kutaisi Picture Gallery, Georgia
State Historical Museum, Kutaisi
Bashkirskiy State Museum of Art of Nesterova
Museum of Art of Tzjik Republic
References
Further reading
Альбом Г. Доленджашвили (G. Dolenjashvili Album), Moscow:2006,
External links
Paintings by Dolenjashvili
About Guram Dolenjashvili (Raffian Art)
"After the rain" by Dolenjashvili at Raffian Art
Painters from Georgia (country)
1943 births
Living people
People from Kutaisi