Anna Mgaloblishvili

Anna Mgaloblishvili is a Georgian painter and art historian. She studied painting at the I. Nikoladze Art College and the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts, where she was part of a group of students who established an experimental studio of Church Murals and Icons. It was one of the first attempts to bring ecclesiastical art into the university after the fall of the Soviet rule in Georgia. She has regularly participated in exhibitions in Georgia and abroad and has curated several art projects. She has taught painting at the I. Nikoladze Art College, worked as an illustrator with various magazines and as scientific researcher at the G. Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. in art history. Her thesis was about the development of church painting in Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century (1900-1921). Her study made a comparative analysis of Georgian church painting and the traditions of other Orthodox countries (Greece, Russia). Presently she is Professor of of Art History and Art Theory at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and since 2008 she has been one of the supervisors of the research project on Religious Art in the Modern World.