Date of Birth:
14.10.1964.  Tbilisi, Georgia

Education:
1990   Glasgow Art School, Postgraduate Exchange Programme
1988   Faculty of Graphical Design, Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts

Exhibitions:
2009  "Art Gallery Line" Tbilisi, Georgia
2008  "Art Gallery Line" Tbilisi, Georgia
2007  ,,Art Gallery Line’’ Tbilisi, Georgia
2007  Russian Artists of Georgia XX Century, The Embassy of the Russian Federation, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006   Art Bridge, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2006  “Elite Gallery”, Tbilisi, Georgia
2006   Queen B’s Gallery,  The 3rd International Miniart Exchange, Queen Charlotte City, Canada
2005   Art Caucasus 2005, Georgian Trade Center, Tbilisi, Georgia
2005  “Elite Gallery”, Tbilisi, Georgia
2004   Trade Center “Art Kavkasia”, Tbilisi, Georgia
2003  “The Jersey Galleries”, The First International  Exhibition of Artlives, London, UK
2002  “Actual Dreams”  Exhibition, Qarvasla Museum of History, Tbilisi, Georgia
2002  “Gallerie Kandinsky”, Exhibition “Art Beyond Borders”, Vienna, Austria
2002  “Grillparzerhof”, Exhibition “Art Beyond Borders”, Kirchberg on the Danube, Austria
2001   Municipal Gallery “Burg Stolberg”, Exhibition“Art Beyond Borders”, Stolberg, Germany
2001   Insurance Company “General”, Exhibition “Art Beyond Borders”, Linz, Austria
2001  “The City Art Center”, Summer Exhibition of the Scottish Academy of Fine Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2001  “Karmelklooster”, Exhibition “Art Beyond Borders”, Drachten, the Netherlands
2000  “Kerr” Center of Culture, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
2000  “The Mall Galleries”, Open Exhibition “Art of Imagination” London, UK
2000   Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1998   Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1997   Personal Exhibition, International Festival of Arts, Art College, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1997  “The Scottish Fine Art Group”, (SFAG), Inverness, Scotland
1997   Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1996  “Gallery 47”, “Scottish Arts Group”, (SFAG), London, UK
1995   Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1995   Royal Scottish Academy, (SSAC), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1995  “Roy Miles Gallery”, London, UK
1995   Personal Exhibition, General Consulate of  Russia Federation,  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1994   British Council, Personal Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1991   Central Exhibition hall, Moscow, Russia
1990  “Artbank Gallery”, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1990  “Galeria Brok”, Barcelona, Spain

Awards:
2000   John Murray Thomson Award. The President and the Awards Committee of the  2000 Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition.
Making art is just a pessimistic game, where is only one rule – to make as many mistakes as possible.
A form(s) appeared as the result of the process evokes new associations, it’s a chain reaction which opens door to infinite space of unconscious, where identifiable and abstract objects co-exist, interacting beyond any physical or logical limits.
Chaos and deformation on the one hand and sharp lines and precisely rendered details on the other is my main aesthetic concept; they also reveal the invisible tension and eternal struggle between or inside all forms of matter.
Another result is, probably, developing my own systems of symbols. The human presence in any artwork, even abstract, is obviously inevitable. However, I prefer symbolized, anthropomorphic structures and silhouettes. One of the biggest inspirations for me now is prehistoric rock art, existed before any complex social systems.                                                            
                                                                                           Alex Berdysheff

Defying representational convention, Alex Berdysheff's mixed media compositions combine realism with tightly rendered anomalous forms. As dimensionally convincing as black and white photography, his drawings relate random and purposeful figuration in perfect harmony. Biomorphic shapes and weightless form is set against a moody sky. A landscape appears but specificity is foregone for mystical affect. His surreal spaces appear with celestial elements. Berdysheff unites earthly forms and heavenly forms in a Miro-like space. Materialistically seductive, his surfaces depict atmospheric blends, textural relief and rigorous line. Like cubist lunar landscapes, the structurally complex paintings show fantastic celestial space. His figures are vivacious interpretations of humans' relationship to the ground and sky. The figures are like animate buildings that reach toward the heavens. Since graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Art in Georgia, Berdysheff has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. His time spent at the Glasgow School of Art was considered a turning point, and shortly thereafter Berdysheff had his first solo show at the Edinburgh International Festival. He was also one of the few non-natives to receive the John Murray Thomson Award, granted by the committee of the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition. Now, his paintings and drawings are held in private collections around the world.
                                                        Agora Gallery, New York, Press Release 2004

   After finishing the State Art Academy in Tbilisi, Alex Berdisheff studied in Glasgow art school. His priorities has been defined as a result of actual relationship and dealing with contemporary European cultural processes. Modern sonority of the painter’s artistic world, philosophical thought out of conception outset and mastery occupy due place in Georgian postmodernist art space. As the author himself mentions, he creates surrealistic world of his distinct and abstractive objects, coexistence and interrelate beyond some logic frame”, Alexander has got his own logics concerning the Universe, though the personages, located in there – private reality. Artistic unit  having been achieved by means of  the synthesis of surrealism,  cubism, machinery , technocracy , some what imaginary and real organically locate in multinational space of modern western art. In 2000 the painter was awarded a prestige annual bonus of “Scotch Royal Academy”.