



Levan Songulashvili (b. 1991, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a New York–based visual artist whose work examines the human figure as a site where memory, history, and collective experience converge. Working primarily in painting and drawing, informed by printmaking and extended through music and video, he has developed a rigorous visual language shaped by transformation, ambiguity, and psychological tension.
Born during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of Georgian independence, Songulashvili came of age amid political rupture and cultural realignment. These formative conditions continue to inform a practice concerned with how individuals are shaped by collective forces, and how identity persists, fractures, or dissolves within larger historical structures. His work operates between the personal and the archetypal, translating lived experience into visual form while remaining grounded in human vulnerability.
At the core of his practice is painting understood as a physical, temporal, and psychological process. Figures often exist in states of emergence and erasure, where posture, gesture, and material tension replace narrative resolution. Influenced by philosophy, mythology, and psychoanalytic thought, his work engages themes of migration, cultural hybridity, gender, and layered identity as fluid conditions shaped by displacement, power, and memory.
Songulashvili received his BFA from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (2013) and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2017). His work is held in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum, as well as in public and private collections including the BREUS Foundation and the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts.


