Meir Pichhadze (Hebrew: מאיר פיצ’חדזה; August 16, 1955 in Kutaisi, Georgia – February 4, 2010 in Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli player and painter.
Pichhadze began studying art as a child following the sculptor Razu Ramishvili. He moved following his relations to Israel in 1973. There his undertaking revealed influences of the primitivist stylings of Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili.
In 1983, Pichhadze began studying at the Kalisher College of Art. His first exhibition was at the school’s newly opened gallery. He was known for his unfamiliar style, most notably for painting on a black canvas instead of the normal white canvas.
Pichhadze died after a six-month fight with cancer.
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