Awards: Medal for the “Decent” PAX (2001), Gold Medal of the RAX (2009), Gold Medal of the Creative CX of Russia (2006), Gold Medal of the VTOO Union of Artists of Russia (2016), Diploma and Gold Medal of the European Chamber of Commerce (2016), Republican Komsomol Prize in field of literature and art. M.Kamberdieva (1976), National Award in the field of fiction, art and science “The Golden Apple” (2009), Participant in exhibitions (since 1971) of All-Union, All-Russian, regional, and academic. group, personal and international: Paris 1977, 1999, 2013, Belgrade (1982), Bulgaria (1984), USA (1994), Argentina (1997), Hungary (1998), Switzerland (1998), Barcelona (1998), Nice (1998), USA (2006), Budapest (2012), Holland (2013), Belgium (2013), Italy (2014), France (2014). Personal exhibitions: Paris (1999), Moscow (2001, 2003, 2006, 2007), Stavropol (2006), Tskhinval (2010).
His works are in the State Russian Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Russia, the Russian Academy of Arts, the Nepl Arts Center, USA, museums and private collections in Russia and abroad.
One of the first Shalva Bedoev formed in his statements the concept of national in modern Ossetian art. In his opinion, the national character of art is determined not only by the image of the characteristic national life, colors and forms of the surrounding nature, the gifts of the land on which the people live, their stories, but also by the reflection of national ideals and poetics of the world that have been forming over the centuries.
He introduces objects of Ossetian everyday life and the fruits of Ossetian land into his paintings, finds an adequate coloristic structure of his canvases, consonant with the colors of Ossetian nature and ancient architecture, as well as expressing traits of a national character with its external restraint and huge internal emotional energy.
Shalva Bedoev is a master of a large thematic picture. His work plays an important role in shaping the contemporary art of Ossetia and Russia.
He works in various genres, including – portrait, still life and landscape. But one of the most important places in the area of his thematic interests is the mythological genre, which he sees in the lyrical and poetic aspect and reveals with the help of interpreted compositional techniques of symbolism and unique color. This allows his mythological images to awaken in the viewer a rich range of subtlest elusive feelings and associations that cannot be verbally expressed.