Name, date and place of birth, education

TSERETELI ZURAB KONSTANTINOVITCH, born in Tbilisi (Georgia) on January 4th, 1934; graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi in 1958. Artist, sculptor, designer.

Present position

• 1997 President of the Russian Academy of Arts (21 Pretchistenka str., Moscow, Russia)
• 1999 Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (25 Petrovka str., Moscow, Russia)
• 2001 Director of “Tsereteli Art Gallery” (19 Prechistenka str., Moscow, Russia)
• 1992 President of the Moscow International Foundation for Support to UNESCO
• 1996 UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
• 2006 Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

Academic status

• 1989 Full Member of the USSR Academy of Arts
• 1992 Full Member and Vice-President of the Academy of Creative Activity (science, culture, public activities), Russia
• 1996 Full Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
• 1997 Full Member of the Academy of World Elite
• 1998 Full Member and Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Information
• 1998 Full Member of the Academy of Arts of Kyrghyz Republic
• 1998 Corresponding Member of San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid, Spain)
• 2002 Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Fine Arts (Paris, France)
• 2009 Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 1978 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art at the State University of New York College of Arts and Science (Brockport, New York, USA)
• 1981 Professor of Academy of Arts in Tbilisi, Georgia
• 1998 Professor (Russia)

Honors and Awards

• 1978 People's Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
• 1980 People's Artist of the USSR
• 1994 People's Artist of the Russian Federation
• 1976 Lenin Prize
• 1970 the USSR State Prize
• 1982 the USSR State Prize
• 1994 Picasso Prize
• 1996 the State Prize of the Russian Federation
• 2000 the prize of modern art 2000 "International Recognition" - "Golden Hand" (France)
• 1990 The Hero of Socialist Labor
• 1994 Order "Friendship of Peoples" (Russia)
• 1996 Order "For Services to Motherland" 3rd rank (Russia)
• 1998 "Vermeil Medal" - the highest reward of the city of Paris; "Big bronze medal of Paris"
• 2000 the Honorary Cross "Combattant Volontaire" of the Association of Veterans of the French Resistance (France)
• 2002 Order of Gabriella Mistral (Chile)
• 2005 Officer of the Order of Arts and Literature (France)
• 2006 Order “For Services to Motherland” 2nd rank (Russia)
• 2007 UNESCO Picasso Gold Medal
• 2007 Order of Bernardo O’Higgins in the highest rank of Grand Cross (Chile)
• 2010 Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (France)

Public awards

• 2003 Order “Glory of Russia”
• 2003 International Peace Prize of the Joint Convent of Figures of Culture(USA)
• 2003 Golden diploma and medal “For Contributions and Motherland” (Russia)
• 2003 The All-Russian Prize “Russian National Olympus”: Order “For Honor and Valor”
• 2003 Order “Philanthropist” of the charitable foundation “Philanthropists of the Century” (Russia)
• 2008 The National Prize for Contribution to the Glory of Russia: Order for Contribution to Culture
• 2009 “Fame” Award of Izvestia newspaper and publishing house (Russia)
• 2009 “Golden Bridge” Prize (Italy)

Chief designer

• 1970-1980 Chief designer of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1980 Chief designer of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia
• 1995 Chief designer of the War Memorial on Poklonnaya Hill (Moscow, Russia)
• 1997 Chief designer of the Manezh Square and the underground shopping mall (Moscow, Russia)
• 1995-2000 Chief designer of the interior and exterior decoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (Moscow, Russia)