In 1943, Pagava met the famous gallery owner Jeanne Bucher, who exhibited her paintings alongside Dora Maar's in 1944.

[3][4]), in Brussels in 1953, Norway in 1954 (Oslo, Bergen Trondheim, with Janice Biala and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva), Wuppertal in 1955, Berlin in 1956, Lausanne in 1957, New York City at the Meltzer Gallery in 1959.

[citation needed] She created a monumental mural work for the Vatican City pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.

[citation needed] The first retrospective of her work in Georgia was held in 2012 at the Dmitri Schevardnadze National Gallery.

[11] In 2022, Pagava's work was included in The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao's exhibit: "From Fauvism to Surrealism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Art Moderne (MAM) de Paris.

"[12] In 2023 the TBC Concept gallery in Tbilisi held a solo exhibition of Pagava' work entitled Silent Cities.