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Mariam Kvashilava
Disappearing on Forest Floor, 2025
monotype on paper
framed, 64.5 x 78 cm
25-3/8 x 30-11/16 in
unframed, 45.7 × 60.9 cm
18 x 24 in
Afternoon Haze, 2025
acrylic and ink on canvas
63.5 x 96.52 cm
25 x 38 in
Fragmented Mirroring, 2025
acrylic and ink on canvas
71.1 x 96.5 cm
28 x 38 in
Born in 1997 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Mariam Kvashilava is a New York–based painter whose practice draws from cultural memory, personal narrative, and material-driven exploration, creating a dialogue between past and present.
She was awarded the NCN full scholarship to study in the United Kingdom and earned her BFA with honors in Art History and Archaeology from Sorbonne University in Paris. She recently completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art.
Kvashilava’s work is a contemplative investigation into time, space, and identity, where painting functions less as depiction and more as resonance. Through layered surfaces and intuitive mark-making, her compositions invite engagement with the invisible forces shaping both collective and individual experience.
Rooted in personal and collective histories, her practice reflects a life shaped by displacement—having left her home country alone at fifteen and lived across multiple countries by early adulthood. Attentive to patterns in how identity is formed, particularly in women’s lives, she explores what is spoken, what remains unspoken, and the emotional inheritances passed quietly through generations.
Through textured, multidisciplinary compositions, Kvashilava gives form to emotional memory, embodied language, and shifting narratives of belonging. Her works unfold as composites of internal and external realities, guided by intention, intuition, and an ongoing dialogue with the materials themselves.
Notable Exhibitions
2025/2026 - Edition 2: Self Image, Identica, Tbilisi, Georgia
2025 - Bo-dy, Mr. Kills, New York, USA
2024 - Solo Exhibition/Curation, Public Records, NY, USA
2024 - Everyday Rituals, NYAA, NY, USA
2024 - Hamptons Fine Art Fair, NY, USA
2023 - Group Show, რეზონანსი, Artarea, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 - Cauchemar-Arts, Carpe Diem, Paris, France
2019 - Support Your Local Girl Gang – La Deuxième, Paris, France
2018 - Support Your Local Girl Gang – La Première, Paris, France
Residencies & Programs
2023 - Art & Theory Program, NY, USA
2022 - Ria Keburia Foundation Residency, Kachreti, Georgia
2020 - Research Residency, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris, France
2019 - Visiting Researcher Program, (EHESS), Paris, France
2019 - Curatorial Research Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2016 - 1525 Collective Nottingham Contemporary, UK