📁 BARB ABULASHVILI
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BISEXUAL THOUGHT DAUGHTER



As an artist, I play between the history of surrealism and contemporary modes as a way to explore narrative storylines. My work involves a space filled with symbolic imagery that helps build a narrative relating to personal healing, human connection, and a commentary on social concerns. Figurative language emerges to a literal sense within my surreal pieces, with a combination of exaggerated shapes of objects and a vibrant color palette.
My current art series, Bisexual Thought Daughter, is an invitation to celebrate bisexuality as a complex, dynamic identity, while recognizing and dismantling the biases that often surround it. As the daughter of conservative immigrant parents from Georgia, homophobia is normalized in my household. The venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that thrives when fed its natural food sources, symbolizes the care needed for one’s queer identity to flourish. The reference to Venus, the planet of love, intertwined with the flytrap’s sharp, eyelash/teeth-like hairs, captures the tension between love, acceptance to identity, and external constraints. In my series, the green skinned girl represented is a character I named Margo, brings the anxiety of my sexuality to human-form. The flytraps are named Jasper, a representation of my queer narratives to fit into the form of a plant. While I bring these characters to life, along with others, it helps identify queerness within my own forms of labeling.



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3D RESIN PRINTED FLIES 
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+METAL COATING (BRASS,IRON,BRONZE,COPPER)
+PATINA SPRAY 
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BARB ABULASHVILI  she/her

Date & Place of Birth: 12/27/01 New Jersey,USA

Boston-based artist


Education

2020-2025 BFA & BA | School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) and Tufts University

2024      BFA Study Abroad | Central Saint Martins- University of the Arts London



Group Exhibitions

2025  Body Politics at Gallery 263 | Cambridge, MA

     SMFA SENIOR THESIS SHOW:And Then There is the Never Ending Problem of Everything Else | Boston, MA

      Brookline Booksmith Preview Exhibition | Brookline, MA

      Art Off the Wall Auction at Brookline Arts Center | Brookline, MA


2024 Not Building a Wall but Making a Brick | London, UK

     Memoir of a Memoir: Special Collections at Filet Gallery | London, UK
  
     FACE at Gallery 263 | Cambridge, MA

     Mock Gallery | Boston, MA
  
     Kindling the Hearth: Keeping the Spark Alive at the SMFA | Boston, MA


2023 First Ever Art Show for Currents Magazine | Boston, MA

     Kaleidoscope: “constantly changing pattern” at the SMFA, Wells Gallery | Boston, MA


2022 Mother at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts | Boston, MA

     Between You and I at Piano Craft Gallery | Boston, MA



Solo Performances

2024     SAOM Experiments with Sounds | London, UK

         Not Building a Wall but Making a Brick | London, UK

         Memoir of a Memoir at Filet Gallery | London, UK



Curatorial Experience

2025    SHAPE OF A MATRIX (Self-curated art exhibition) | Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

2023   Spirol Art Gallery, somewhere sometime | Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT

       Intermission Museum of Art, Co-founder’s Assistant | New York City, NY
  • Assisted in exhibition planning, research, and contributing to the development of contemporary art programming



Artist Book Tabling

2024    Fanzineist Vienna Art Book and Zine Fair | Vienna, Austria

        Tate Museum Offprint Art Fair | London, UK

        Pushkin House Zine Fair | London, UK

  • Engaged with international audiences at book fairs, discussing artistic research and self-publishing as a form of contemporary practice


2023    Boston Art Book Fair | Boston, MA



Internship

2023    Interned for John Ros, interdisciplinary artist | Boston, MA/New York City, NY

  • Gained hands-on experience in exhibition production, artist studio management, and interdisciplinary research, contributing to installation projects


Jobs

    Photographer and Intern at New York Fashion Week Fall 2022, Spring 2023, and Spring 2025 | New York, NY 

  • Document high-profile events, social media content. Work in fast-paced, professional settings requiring strong visual storytelling and adaptability

    Event Photographer for Rimowa | Boston, MA 

    SMFA Art Store Employee | Boston, MA


Volunteer

   Photographer and gallery-sitter at Gallery 263 | Cambridge, MA