Artist Biographies

The following are biographies of artists from the Tsarist, Communist, or post-Communist space. Here we discuss the lives they led, the works they created, and what they meant to the cultures they lived in.

November 9, 2025

Igrika Crafts: Interactive Art in Tbilisi, Georgia

Igrika Crafts is a family-run art studio based in Tbilisi which specializes in block-printed textiles with traditional Georgian folk motifs. They graciously offered to organize a block-printing workshop for my fellow SRAS Tbilisi study abroad participants to teach us more about their art as well as the Georgian history, culture, and folk art which inspires […]

Artist Biographies

Igrika Crafts: Interactive Art in Tbilisi, Georgia

Maia Tsinamdzgurishvili: Elevating Silk Threads to Art

Ilya Repin’s Life, Works, Legacy and House Museum

Nukus Museum in Uzbekistan: Lysenko, Savitsky, and Preserving the Soviet Avant-Garde

Maria Siniakova and the Ukrainian Avant-garde

Semyon Chuikov, Founder of Kyrgyz Painting: His Life and House Museum in Bishkek

Seven Critically Acclaimed Modern Russian Artists

Elena Martilla: Artist of the Blockade

Saira Keltaeva: Exploring Uzbek and Feminine Identity