Nino Narimanidze

There’s something foreign in artist Nino Narimanidze’s work—a hint of something so obscure and grandiose and out of reach. It’s in the sand dunes encompassing crumbling, tired buildings of Sinai, in the bewildered, crashing waves of the Black Sea and even in the bucolic, winding alleys of Batumi. You’ll find it in her still life paintings, too. In the ordinary things—say, in the stillness of a paper-white cup of tea sitting on a bed of crumpled red tablecloth symbolizing the calm before the storm of the Arab Spring, of which she was a quiet witness during her 16 years of living in Egypt. Suffice to say, the Georgian-born artist has seen enough of life to outlast a dozen aluminum tubes of oils and twice as many sets of watercolor. She shares, through her landscapes, still lifes and portraits, glimpses of memories formed throughout her years living in the heart of Caucasus and the belly of the Middle East. And although these moments captured on canvas may seem like that of lands far away, they are certainly anything but unexplored.

Nino Narimanidze received an MFA from the Art Academy in Tbilisi Republic of Georgia in 1982 and studied at the Moscow State University of Ivan Fedorov in Russia. She then worked professionally as a bo...

Moscow State University of Graphic Arts of Ivan Fedorov
Graphic Execution and Illustration of Book 1987-1988
Underwent courses of improvement of professional skill

Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
Master's Degree: Artist of Applied Art Majoring in Artistic Glass 1982

Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
Bachelor's Degree: Artistic Glass Processing 1977-1982
Diploma received highest award

Cut-Glass and Crystal Compositions were exhibited in the following Art Exhibitions:

Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia – Solo Exhibition at the Advertising Agency
MI-MI-NO Exhibition Hall sponsored by Georgian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry 1994

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Georgian Days in the Emirates, sponsored
by Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1991

Istanbul, Turkey – Sheraton Hotel Exhibition Hall– Georgian Days in
Turkey, sponsored by the Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1991

Tbilisi, Georgia – National Picture Gallery 1987

Moscow, Russia – Exhibition Hall at Profsoyuznaya 1987

Tbilisi, Georgia – “40 Years of Victory” at the National Picture Gallery 1985

Tbilisi, Georgia – Republican Exhibition dedicated to the 200th
Anniversary of the Treaty of Georgievsk 1983

Leningrad, Russia – Artists’ Union Exhibition Hall 1982

Plovdiv, Bulgaria – Georgian Artists’ Union Exhibition 1982

Tbilisi, Georgia – National Picture Gallery 1982

Moscow, Russia – Republican Exhibition USSR 1982
Pictorial and Graphic works were exhibited in the following retrospective exhibitions:

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio – Art Exhibition at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center 2013

Cairo, Egypt – Solo Exhibition at ...