Alexander Berdysheff was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1964. His artistic career officially started in Scotland. There, after graduating from Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, he took part in a post-graduate exchange program at the Glasgow School of Art. After several solo and group exhibitions in Scotland, the Edinburgh School of Art hosted his major show during the Edinburgh International Festival in 1997. In 2000 he received the John Murray Thomson Award for his work in the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition. Since then, he participated in numerous shows worldwide, mostly in Georgia, Britain and the United States. In 2022 he took part in a group exhibition of six surrealist artists at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art. In 2023 his solo exhibition took place at Avery Gallery in Atlanta. In 2024 his work exhibited in Houston, the same year.his solo exhibition “Monologue” was held in Tbilisi, at the Vanda Art Gallery, with which he has a long-standing collaboration.

In his painting, Berdysheff combines figurative, but often distorted, objects with pure forms and textural components. They coexist beyond any physical or logical limits, revealing the invisible tension and eternal struggle between (or inside) all forms of matter. This all works to allow doubt to develop in regards to “the reality of visible”.