Batu Siharulidze
Associate Professor of Art
Post-Graduate degree, All-Union Academy of Arts, Moscow, Georgia, Former USSR. Graduate Degree, State Academy of Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia. Art Teacher Degree, Art College, Tbilisi, Georgia. Formerly taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Work has been nationally and internationally exhibited and collected, including in Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, USA; Haarlem, Netherlands; Madrid, Spain; Milan, Italy; Bradford, London, England; Vienna, Austria; St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia, in museums, shows, permanent displays, commissions, and symposia. Sculpture Trakia became a permanent display in Peace Garden, border of Turkey, Bulgaria, and Greece, in 2003.