Guram Dolenjashvili

From series Moonlit nights of Imeretia. Variant 5. Pencil., 1993 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.

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. 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