Shota Imerlishvili

Shota Imerlishvili (b. 1991, Telavi, Georgia) is a self-taught Georgian painter, human rights advocate, and peace ambassador whose creative journey began at the age of three. He received his first international recognition at eight years old, earning the UNEP South Caucasus "Peaceful and Healthy Environment" Art Award in 1999, the start of a twenty-five-year practice built outside formal art school. His work explores fragmented identity through cubist geometry, layered symbolism, and continuous-line drawing of fragmented faces, soaring birds, architectural distortion, and spiritual metaphor, channeling a vision of a unified world. He is widely known for his signature series Flying Peace, using birds in flight as a metaphor for freedom and the universal desire for peace. Parallel to his art, Shota has served as a global peace ambassador, a United Nations Youth Assembly delegate, and a European Parliament young diplomat representing Georgia. His exhibitions include solo shows at the Embassy of Georgia in Brussels (2019) and The Art Palace of Georgia in Tbilisi (2022). His work has been selected for major international group exhibitions, including the United Nations Headquarters in New York, UNRISD in Geneva, the Reece Museum in Ten...

Georgian Technical University faculty of Social Sciences.

Solo Exhibitions: 2022: Personal Exhibition, The Art Palace of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia 2019: My Voice to Europe, Embassy of Georgia to the Kingdom of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Group & Institutional Exhibitions: 2026: FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. 2024: Swiss Art Expo. Zurich, Switzerland, 2020: The John Bryant Award Finalist Showcase, London Arts, London, UK 2019: United Nations Office at Geneva Showcase, UNRISD, Geneva, Switzerland 2014: United Nations Headquarters Cultural Exhibition, New York City, USA