Besik Arbolishvili

Besik Arbolishvili's imaginative work is distinguished by an expressive visual language that merges figuration, symbolic narrative, and atmospheric landscape. Born in the Kakheti region to the painter Mikhail Arbolishvili who was the artist’s first teacher, Besik received his formal training at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1974–1981) under leading Georgian artist Ucha Malakevich Chaparidze (Ucha Japaridze), and at the Union Academy Creative Studio (1983–1986). Since the mid-1980s, Besik has exhibited extensively in Georgia, Germany, France, the United States, Kuwait, and Azerbaijan, with select exhibitions at the National Gallery in Tbilisi, the Museum of Modern Art and the Central House of Artists, Emory University in Atlanta, as well as the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. His work has also been featured at the Alla Rogers Gallery in Washington, D.C. and Phillips, New York. In 1998, the Arbolishvili served as a visiting artist as the Virginia Commonwealth University.

Besik’s paintings are represented in institutional collections including the National Gallery of Georgia, the Georgian National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art , the Museum of Oriental Art, the Otto Pankok Museum...

1974-1981 "Tbilisi State Academy of Art"
1983-1986 "Union Academy Creative Studio"

Solo exhibitions

2018 - “National Research center of literature " Tbilisi, Georgia.
2008 - Embassy of USA in Georgia, Tbilisi.
2007 - Hotel “Sheraton Metechi Palace”, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2000 - Trading House “Seoul”
1999 - UNESCO office , Tbilisi, Georgia.
1997 - “Gallery Hobby” Museum of literature, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Group exhibitions
2025- Was Launched at Samsung The Frame Gallery. WW.
2024- " National Gallery" Tbilisi, Georgia.
2023- “Museum of modern art” Tbilisi, Georgia.
2017 - “Silk Gallery” Tbilisi, Georgia.
2016 - "Emmanuel Fremin Gallery" New York. US.
2016 - “ Art Ankara” Turkey
2015 - "12 Artists" TBC Art Gallery ,Tbilisi, Georgia.
2014 - ART EXPO, New York, US
2013 - SAINT-PIERRE DE MONTMARTRE, Paris, France.
2012 - “Art House Historian” Tbilisi, Georgia.
2009 - ART EXPO, New York, US.
2009 - "Spring Vernissage" NoHo, California. US.
2008 - “Vernissage Winter” NoHo, California. US.
2006 - Gallery “Elite”, Hotel Marriott, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2005 - Gallery “Kopala”, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2004 - Nymphs and Angels, Central art House
2003 - Köln, Germany.
1999 - Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington DC, US
1997 - International Art Festival Deco in, Berlin, Germany.
1997 - International Monitory Fund, Washington DC,US
1997 - ...