Nikolai Khugati (Ossetian: Хуыгаты Къостайы фырт Николай) is an Ossetian artist, born on October 3, 1949 in the mountain village of Khardisar, Java district, South Ossetia.
In creativity, he prefers painting and drawing, working in various genres ─ portraits, landscapes, still lifes, genre paintings and more. His artworks are presented in the Tbilisi Republican Museum, as well as in private collections.
Nikolai spent most of his creative life in Siberia, the Irkutsk region, the city of Svirsk.

Education

In 1970 he graduated from the Tskhinval Art College named after M. S. Tuganov.
Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR since 1987 (Union of Artists of Russia ─ since 1992).
Teachers at the Tskhinval Art College named after Tuganov M.S.:

• Kotaev Grigory Seseevich
• Sanzherovskaya (Sanzharovskaya) Anastasia Mikhailovna
• Sanakoev Boris Iosifovich.

Participation in general exhibitions

• 1979 – All-Union Art Exhibition "Blue Roads of the Motherland", Moscow;
• 1982 – General exhibition, Tbilisi;
• 1996 – General exhibition, Irkutsk;
• 2002 – General exhibition, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region;
• 2006 – Exhibition “Living Springs Of The People’s Soul”, Svirsk, Irkutsk region;
• 2010 – Exhibition Dedicated To The 65Th Anniversary Of Victory In The Great Patriotic War Of 1941-1945, Irkutsk;
• 2012 – General Exhibition, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania;
• 2014 – Publication in the book "Artists of Ossetia (2014)", Vladikavkaz (Republic of North Ossetia–Alania);
• 2015 – Exhibition “Ossetian Flair”, Grozny, Chechen Republic;
• 2019 – Publication in the book "Artists of Ossetia (2019)", Vladikavkaz (Republic of North Ossetia–Alania);
• 2019 – Salon Art Shopping au Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.

Solo expositions

• 1975 – Solo exhibition, Tyumen;
• 1986 – Solo exhibition, Tskhinval, South Ossetia;
• 1988 – Solo exhibition, Svirsk, Irkutsk region.

Awards and achievements

• 1997 – Honorary diploma of the Svirsk City Council of Veterans;
• 2006 – Gratitude from the city of Svirsk, Irkutsk region;
• 2010 – Diploma of the Ministry of Culture and Archives of the Irkutsk Region;
• 2014 – Gratitude of the Union of Artists of Republic of North Ossetia–Alania;
• 2015 – Gratitude of the Ministry of Culture of the Chechen Republic;
• 2019 – Diploma Salon Art Shopping au Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.