About

Sasha Chavchavadze is an interdisciplinary artist who is a NY member of A.I.R. Gallery. Her mixed media paintings, drawings and multimedia installations explore themes of disappearance and erasure with a focus on the  lives of forgotten women. As an extension of her studio practice, she has created numerous community-based public projects and platforms that connect art to other disciplines, building community, collaboration and connection  around themes of forgotten history and its effect on memory and place.  These  include Proteus Gowanus, an award-winning interdisciplinary gallery that was a cultural hub in Brooklyn for ten years, the SALLY Project, conceived and curated with artist JoAnne McFarland and the Footnote Project, conceived and curated with artist Karen Mainenti.

Chavchavadze’s mixed media paintings and multimedia installations have been exhibited widely, including:: A.I.R. Gallery; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY;  Luise Ross Gallery, NY; Cooper Union Gallery, NY; The Grolier Club, NY; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; the Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia; Kentler International Drawing Space and the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Her artist residencies include 2018 Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Cummington Community for the Arts. Excerpts of Chavchavadze's visual work and writing have been published in Cabinet, Bomb, Marginalia and NYFA Current magazines, and as a book (Museum of Matches, Proteotypes 2011). Her public art installation Battle Pass: Revolution II, located in Brooklyn, NY from 2011 - 2019, was commissioned by the NYC DOT Urban Art Program.

Chavchavadze’s community-centered, collaborative projects and platforms have been presented at TEDxGowanus, at the Museum of Modern Art and on BRIC TV. Other public art projects conceived and led by Chavchavadze include: Battle Pass Collective, D'Amico Gowanus Collective, and the Carnival of Connectivity, (Brooklyn Arts Council grant).