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Education, exhibitions, auctions, public works, collections and memberships.
Education
- 1978Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Russia
- 1974Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Department of Sculpture (graduated), Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1962Sukhumi Art School, Sukhumi, Abkhazia
Solo exhibitions
- 2015U Maistra Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
- 2012Palace of Arts, Kalchuga, Moscow region, Russia
- 2010Sochi Art Museum, Sochi, Russia
- 2010“The Long Road Home”, Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of Abkhazia, Sukhum, Abkhazia
- 2009U Maistra Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
- 2008U Maistra Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
- 2006Historical and Archaeological Museum, Grodno, Belarus
- 2005Solo exhibition, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2001Central Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union of Abkhazia, Sukhum, Abkhazia
- 2000“Moya Kollektsiya” Gallery, State Exhibition Hall “Tvorchestvo”, Moscow, Russia
- 1998U Maistra Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
- 1997Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union, Grodno, Belarus
- 1997“Forma-I”, Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus
- 1996Architect’s House, Baden-Baden, Germany
- 1996Education Centre, Neustadt-Glewe, Germany
- 1996Neue Galerie, Rostock, Germany
- 1994U Maistra Gallery, Grodno, Belarus
- 1993Svobodnaya Galereya (Free Gallery), Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1991Palitra Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Group exhibitions
- 1999Open-air exhibition, Croatia
- 1999“Petersburg-98”, Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1999Group exhibition of Abkhazian artists, Sukhum, Abkhazia
- 1998Open-air exhibition “Hudson-Neva”, New York, USA
- 1998“Artists of Russia and the CIS”, Dom Khudozhnika, Moscow, Russia
- 1998“Petersburg-97”, Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1997“Petersburg-96”, Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1996Biennale of Painting, Xàtiva, Spain
- 1995International Biennale “Dialogi”, Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1995Exhibition at the Maison du Limousin, Paris, France
- 1995“Petersburg-95”, Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Auctions
- 2026Bonhams, British and European Art — Maria, bronze (2019), London, United Kingdom (online)
- 2025Bonhams, British and European Art — tapestries Red dolmen and Archaic love in dolmen (2008), London, United Kingdom (online)
- 2015Auktionshaus Eppli, “Art, Antiques, Jewellery & more” — Akt in Abchasien (2000) and Akt mit großem Blumenstrauß (1999), Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany
Public works
- 2010Monument to the Mahajirs — bronze, winning design of the state competition, Mahajirs’ Embankment, Sukhum, Abkhazia
- 1980Travel to the Sky — chamotte and glaze composition, Argonavt plant, Tkvarchal, Abkhazia
Collections
- 2025State Russian Museum — Female torso. Luda (1993), bronze, gift of the artist, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- 1995National Art Gallery of Abkhazia — Requiem (1995), Sukhum, Abkhazia
- Private collections in Germany, Spain, Italy, Croatia, the USA and Belgium
Memberships and titles
- 2012Honorary Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
- 1976Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR
- Member of the Artists’ Union of Abkhazia
- Member of the Belarusian Union of Artists
- Member of the Moscow Union of Artists
- Member of the International Association of Art (UNESCO)