Meir Pichhadze was born in the then Soviet, Georgia in 1953. He immigrated to Israel in 1973 and graduated from the Tel Aviv School of Painting. Pichhadze creates paintings both figurative and abstract, with geometric and organic forms, which are invariably finished in "industrial" technique and color. Pichhadze interprets conventional symbols and iconography from a myriad of cultural systems, assembling them in a discontinuous manner in order to subvert the possibility of seeing iconography in the painting.  Pichhadze has won numerous prizes including  the Sharett Prize,1982 America -Israel Cultural Foundation, 1988 Minister of Education Prize for a Young Artist; 1989 Minister of Education Prize; 1990 First Prize, Biennial, Ankara. In 2003 at the Tel Aviv Museum, Pichhadaze exhibited a serious of paintings that he called Art as Autobiography. Throughout the last decade Pichhadze has also been painting with childish symbols, known as the "children paintings". Pichhadze past away in Tel Aviv in February, 2010.