Tamo Jugeli

Tamo is a self-taught young artist who only started painting two years ago but has entered the Georgian art scene like a comet. After her first exhibition at Art Villa Garikula residency she instantly gained recognition and support in Georgia but not only. Being open to critic and looking for professional mentors has gained her the recognition and support of Gia Edzgveradze, Georgian internationally acclaimed artist, who has been motivating and mentoring her ever since he saw her works. Cleverly using ...

View More Instagram to give her work exposure has attracted her art the attention of young rising star artists like Anna K.E., Florian Meisenberg and Caroline Eidner and of such acclaimed professionals as Leonid Bazhanov and Jerry Saltz. Her interviews have been published several times in leading Georgian online and print publications and her intellectual maturity together with the strength of her works gained the artist total support from a Georgian leading bank and the biggest Contemporary art patron, TBC Bank, which is ready to financially support Jugeli in her future plans, residencies or studies. Her first solo exhibition will be held at Project ArtBeat gallery in February, which will be accompanied by the publication of her first artist book. Tamo’s great story together with her dedication, discipline, sensitivity, emotional and intellectual maturity paired with the support and advice she is receiving from her true professional supporters and the right path she is taking just now are the guarantors that this story will turn into a very rich and interesting biography in the nearest future. Selected solo and group exhibitions: 2019 - The Institut für Alles Mögliche, artist residency, Berlin, Germany; 2019 - Handler - John Riepenhoff, Project ArtBeat gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2019 - Tbilisi art fair 2019, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2019 - “You know what?! I don't have a good feeling about cakes around here”, Project ArtBeat gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2018 - Art-Villa Garikula, Garikula, Georgia.