Rusudan Petviashvili was born in Tbilisi on the 25th of January, 1968. She started to paint when she was one year and ten months old. The first personal exhibition was held when she became 6. Up to the hundred of her graphic and colour pictures were exhibited: the large-formatted, highly complicated one-touch drawings, mostly. Scholars, as well as the wide society, were bewildered to see amazing skills of the child artist.

In the age of 8, Rusudan Petviashvili held two personal exhibitions in Moscow. Three years late, another exhibition took place again in Moscow, then in Tbilisi. The exhibition was initially planned for two weeks but had to be extended to three months due to enormous popular demand. Thirteen-year-old Rusudan exhibited her works in different towns of France and, finally, in Paris.

Since then personal exhibitions have been held around the world, including in Paris and other locations in France, London, Berlin, Geneva, Vienna, Budapest, etc.

Books were published with Rusudan’s illustrations. Among them are “National Fairy Tales of Georgia” the the notorious French edition of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”.  

Rusudan Petviashvili is listed in “2000 Famous Persons of XX Century”, the book published by the Cambridge Biographical Centre”.

In 1999-2000 she illustrated exclusive handwritten New Testament with the blessing of the Georgian Patriarch. The word’s largest handwritten Gospel is today exhibited at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Tbilisi.

Gallery of Rusudan Petviashvili’s art was open in Tbilisi during 2000-2009, as well as in Batumi during 2009-2018.

Since 2018 Rusudan has been cooperating with luxury German ceramics and tableware brand Villeroy & Boch. Several limited edition cups and plates with her exclusive paintings have been manufactured. The cooperation continues in 2023.

In 2020 Rusudan Petviashvili collaborated with luxury Swiss watch brand Jaquet Droz (1738), creating four exclusive wristwatches (2 for women, 1 for men and 1 unisex).

Petviashvili's paintings are kept in various private collections around the world, including of several world leaders. Her paintings adorn the presidential palace of Georgia.

Permanent gallery of Rusudan Petviashvili’s art opened its doors on January 2023 at 21a Abashidze St. Tbilisi, Georgia.