Lives and works in New York and Berlin

1977 Born in Sochumi, Georgia

Education

1986-1991 National Art School, Sochumi, Georgia

1993-1994 Phil. Institute ‘Gogebaschwili’, Tiblisi, Georgia

1995-1999 Visual Art School, Basel, CH

Grants and selected awards

2011 Nominated for Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Berlin, D

2006 Manor Kunstpreis, Zurich, CH

2005 Kiefer Hablitzel Preis, Zurich, CH

2004 Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich, Paris, F

2003 Bundesstipendium für Freie Kunst, Zurich, CH

2002-2003 Atelierstipendium Binz 39 , Zurich, CH

Filmscreenings

2014 Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2013 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California

2013 Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2012 'Projections of the Self', Institute of Contemporary Art, London, with Charlotte Prodger, Pamela Rosenkranz and others

2011 'Potluck Screening', Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New York, with Martha Rosler, Corinna Schnitt, Roman Signer, Uglycute & Andro Wekua, and others

2010 'Stage', im Marshall-Haus, ABC-Contemporary, Berlin, with Jack Smith, Cerith Wyn Evans, Stefan Panhans, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz, and Jennifer Bornstein

2009 'Je Est Un Autre …', Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, with Keren Cytter, Maya Deren, Jesper Just, Jen Liu, Markus Schinwald and Andro Wekua

2009 'By the Window', Art Unlimited/Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2005 'Art Film', Stadtkino Basel/Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, with Susan Hiller, Debroah Ligoria, Yasumasa Morimura, Nobuyoshi Araki, Markus Schinwald, Andro Wekua, Jonathan Horowitz, Anri Sala and others