Iankoshvili was married to the writer Lado Avaliani, with whom she lived in a small, cramped apartment in Tbilisi.
[4][5] Iankoshvili refused to conform to the expected social realist style of the Soviets, favoring instead a neo-expressionist manner of painting which was to become her hallmark.
[2] Iankoshvili was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art in 2018; it marked the first time in 45 years her work was given a solo show in the country of her birth.
[2] In 2000 a museum dedicated to her work, containing over one thousand pieces, was opened in the Georgian capital;[6][7] formerly operated by the government, it is currently private.
[4] She is the subject of a monograph edited by Mamuka Bliadze, to published by the University of Chicago Press in July 2020.