Kokaya Lya

Biography

Liya Kokaya

Liya Kokaya was born in Kutaisi, Georgia and has been living in Moscow since 1975. Liya has higher technical education and has obtained a post-graduate degree in 1986. In 1992, Liya has graduated from the iconography school of the All-Union Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Since then, she works as icon painter and restorer, and has also authored several embroidered icons and two gonfalons. She is active as a painter since 2000.
Liya has participated in many exhibitions in the Central House of Artists in Moscow and her works have found home all over the world.
Liya is also works together with her husband – the sculptor and designer Aleksey Abramov.