Levan Songulashvili (b. 1991, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a New York–based visual artist whose practice centers on figurative painting as a site where memory, history, and collective experience converge. Working primarily in painting and drawing, informed by printmaking and extended through installation, sound, 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 attentive to how individuals are shaped, fragmented, or absorbed within larger historical and social 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 density 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 and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum and in public and private collections including the BREUS Foundation and the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts. He has exhibited internationally at institutions and galleries such as the Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery, and the National Gallery Tbilisi. His honors include the President of Georgia Award, the Prime Minister’s Scholarship, recognition as Artist of the Year, and inclusion in Forbes 30 Under 30.