Zurab Sumbadze

Georgian artist based in Berlin, after being based in Texas, California, La Réunion and Georgia. I am specialized in illustration and Fine Arts.

1981-1983 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi, Fashion Design

1983-1988 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tblisi, Illustration and book design, M.A.


1979-1988 freelance illustrator for the children's newspaper "Nergi"


1989 Relocation to Berlin (West), Germany


Since 1990 freelance illustrator for Berlin publishers and advertising agencies

Publishers: Freie Autoren Publishing House, Hubert W. Holzinger Publishing House,
Walter de Gruyter Publishing House, Berlin Story Verlag

Advertising agencies: ITS, Ramminger GmbH, Drukula GmbH

Other customers include IBM, Gillette GmbH, Melas GmbH, Kaiser's, United Buddy Bears


2004-2005 Lived and worked on the island of La Réunion, (Indian Ocean) France

2013-2016 Lived and worked in Los Angeles, California

2016-2019 Lived and worked in Houston, Texas

Since 2019 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

2019 Group exhibition "Grüße Aus Georgien" Kunstpunkt Berlin,

2018 Group exhibition "Animals" Art Car Museum Houston, USA

2017 Group exhibition „Trump It“ Art Car Museum Houston, USA

2014 Personal exhibition Alliance Française, Los Angeles, USA

2009 Personal exhibition "Ephemeris" Galerie Körnerpark, Berlin

2007 Personal exhibition "Ile de La Réunion- Ma liberté" Galerie provenceprojekt, Berlin

2005 Personal exhibition "Mes découvertes" St. Pierre/La Réunion

2004 Group exhibition "14 Künstler", Galerie14, Berlin

2004 Group exhibition "Zwischenwelten", Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V. , Berlin

2002 Group exhibition "Perspektiven", City Hall, Berlin

2002 Group exhibition „Accrochage“ Galerie 14, Berlin

2002 Personal exhibition "200,0 Skizzen aus 2000 Jahren Weltgeschichte", Galerie Morus 14
Galerie VHS-Schöneberg, both Berlin

2002 Group exhibition "Kleine Formen ganz groß", Berlin

1997 Group exhibition "Hommage à Hermann Hesse", Augsburg, Germany

1996 Miniprint International Cadaqués, Spain
Miniature de l’Art, Quebec, Canada

1994 Personal exhibition DIW Berlin "Hommage à Rembrandt"
Miniprint International Cadaqués, Spain

1993 Minipri...