Tamo Jugeli
Tamo Jugeli (b. 1994, Tbilisi) is a self-taught Georgian artist. Jugeli approaches her paintings spontaneously and intuitively, embracing the interplay of color, form, and sensation over representational realism. Her work resists easy interpretation, as she fosters a fluid and evolving dialogue between abstract and figurative elements within each composition, moving freely between large and small-scale canvases. Jugeli invites the viewer to engage with what she calls “the tension between light and shadow,” as well as themes of transformation, escape, and the pursuit of clarity amidst chaos. Her work, in her words, “transcends the visible world.” Jugeli lives in New York.
Jugeli has had solo exhibitions at Karma, Los Angeles (2025); Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2024), Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2023, 2022) and Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi (2022, 2020). Group exhibitions include Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris (2023), Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023), and Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography, Mestia, Georgia (2021), among others.
Photograph by Dimitri Mais, 2024
Born 1994, Tbilisi
Lives in New York City
EDUCATION
2017
BSS, David Aghmashenebeli University of Georgia, Tbilisi
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Karma, Los Angeles, Hey
2024
Tanya Leighton, Berlin, A Clear Horizon
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Figment: Tamo Jugeli and Maia Naveriani
2023
Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, …lightly
2022
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Random Order
Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, Solitaire
2020
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Unnamed 2020
2019
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, You Know What?! I don’t Have a Good Feeling about Cakes Around Here
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, The rose is the rose and is the cat
Karma, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, LINKS
Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, Emotional Intelligence II
Gallery Artbeat at L’Atlas, Paris, My Sister Named…
2023
Club Rhubarb, New York, I Was Only Dreaming
superzoom, Paris, Soft Focus: Jessica Cannon, Parmen Daushvili, Tamo Jugeli, Carrie Rudd
Hill Art Foundation, New York, Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained, curated by David Salle
2022
Morton St. Partners, New York, Unsafe at Any Speed
Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, Emotional Intelligence
2021
TBC Concept, Tbilisi, Digital Natives
Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography, Mestia, Georgia, Limen
2019
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi, Handler
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RESIDENCIES
2023
Residency, superzoom, Ardèche, France
2022
Residency, Art Athina, Athens, Greece
2019
Residency, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2018
Residency, Art Villa Garikula, Garikula, Georgia
