About The Artist

Date of Birth: May 8, 1961. Place of Birth: Gori, Georgia. Education: M. S. Tuganov Arts professional School, Tskhinvali (1976 - 1980). The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, Graphic Art (1981-1987). Specialty: Graphic Artist. Since 1986 - Member of USSR Young Artist’s Union. Since 2012 - Member of Georgian Artist’s Union. Since 2012 - Member of National Creative Unity of Georgian Artists. Since 2015 - Member of IWS (International Watercolor Society) Georgia. Since 2017 - Member in Circle Foundation for the Arts (Lyon, France). Since 2017 - Member of Georgian Art Guild. Since 2019 - Member of Eurasian Artist’s Union. Since 2019 - Member of International Association VATIKAM (Paris, France). Since 2020 - Associate Member of the National Pastel Society of Russia (НСП) (Moscow, Russian Federation). 1981 – 2000 - Cooperation with the state publishing houses, since 2000 - periodic cooperation with private publishing houses, Artist – illustrator. Awards: Gold Medal in the REALISM category (International Fine Arts Exhibit «ART CLASH», New York Realism Online Gallery, New York City, USA, 2016). Gold Medal in the GRAPHIC ART category (international online exhibition "ART & SHADOW", New York, USA, 2019). Gold Medal, First Place in the nomination of THEMATIC COMPOSITION (Russian Cup of Artistic Work, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2019). 2018 - 2019 — Russian Art Awards Laureate. 2018 - 2019 — Laureate of the International contest «Best works», VATIKAM (Paris, France). 2019 — American Art Awards Winner. Certificates and Diplomas (USA, England, Switzerland, Russia, Hungary, France, Italy, Israel, etc.). Solo and group exhibitions – from 1981 to the present day (in detail look on the website www.damenia-philauri.com). Part of the works are in private and public collections in many countries of the world.