Eteri Chkadua is a Tbilisi-born artist, who now lives and works in the New York City. Eteri is a graduate of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1981-1988), where her professors instructed Eteri to practice impressionist and abstract painting styles, in order to divert attention from Russian academia and Socialist realism which was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union.In 1988, after completing her studies, Eteri moved to the US. Separated from homeland, she wanted her visual language to “speak” clearly to both Georgians and the viewers from various cultural backgrounds in USA. It was then she decided to practice self-taught Old Masters technique.Eteri presented Georgia at the 52nd Venice Biennale with her paintings. Her works were featured in solo exhibitions at the Luna Kulturhus Consthalen, Sodertalje, Sweden, Museum of Dolls and Museum of Literature in Tbilisi. Paintings were also included in the group exhibitions: "Nude” at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut; "Gender Check" at the MUMOK in Vienna and at the National Museum in Warsaw, "Neighbors" at the Istanbul Modern Museum in Turkey.Eteri is a recipient of grants from: Creative Time, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She taught as the Visiting Professor at the New York Academy of Arts in NYC and at the University of California in Santa Barbara.