He is a Meritorious Artist of Georgia and an honorary member of Russian Academy of Arts. Dolenjashvili was born in Kutaisi (Imereti). He graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1968 where he studied in the shop of Lado Grigolia. He mostly lived in Kutaisi but travel led to Russian North, White Sea, Kamchatka and Chukotka.