Omar Chkhaidze is an artist who has started a new era in art. He became the first of the painters who, once having seen Light, was able to transfer it onto the canvas. He managed to do it as early as a student in the sixties. He has originated a new aesthetics - the aesthetics of Light. He has shown the way how to transform light into color. This is why the colors on his canvases are vivid. There had been nobody before to paint Light the way he did, therefore, one may say with confidence that Omar Chkhaidze may be considered the creator of a new paradigm in art. He has opened the door into the art of the third millennium.

He was born in Georgia on the 16th of April, 1944. He had painted as far as he could remember himself. On leaving his home village for Tbilisi at the age of 13, he enters the Art school, then the Academy of Arts at the faculty of painting. He paints a lot in the search if his style. He is bound to seek for it through all of his life, changing all the time and constantly upgrading his skills. One thing is apparent: in the very start of his way in art Omar made a resolute step out from the common raks and found himself outside the system of the social realism with its severe requirements. He had always been free. This had been the reason for his periodic expultions, first from the school, later from the Academy as "an incorrigible formalist and abstractionist". True, he always got reinstated afterwards. Omar graduated with honors both from the school, and the academy. Since 1964 he has been participating in international art shows.

Now the painter has achieved worldwide recognition.  His works can be found in museums, galleries and in countless private and corporate collections in many countries. Omar has lived and worked in Moscow for many years now. In the year 2000 he opened his gallery in the Central Artist House. Omar holds his shows all over the world. 

The art of Omar Chkhaidze is a unique phenomenon in contemporary painting. He has not only created his individual style, but also his unique inimitable painting technique. Thanks to this technique his oil paintings possess a vivid color and an unusual transparent depth. You are able to see one paint layer under the other, still another layer under the previous one, and so on and on. That is the way Omar Chkhaidze has painted all his portraits, still lives, biblical series.

Today, in the third millennium, our planet is influenced by a new coming energy which radically changes human consciousness. The planet's spiritual leaders - writers, musicians, artists - all those capable of obtaining information from above, carry it to the people by means of their works. Since the year of 2000 Omar Chkhaidze’s painting manner and style dramatically change. Now he is breaking away from his attachment to the object and form, which gives him greater freedom of self-expression, helps him transfer his vision of the Universe's spiritual world. And though, spirituality has always been the essence of expressiveness in his art, today, it is the driving force helping him create his own world on canvas. The artist's new works in which he paints pure White Light are full of sacred sense; they express the ideas of awakening and enlightenment.