Born in Thessaloniki, Greece
Lives and works in Bristol, UK

Awards `

2010 Arts Council England, South West, UK
2009 Artist-to-Artist Award, Visiting Arts, UK
2009 Arts & Ecology International programme, Visiting Arts and RSA, UK
2009 Arts Council England, South West, UK
2009 Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Greece. Production Bursary
2008 Small Wonders, Picture This Moving Image Agency, UK
2007 NAN New Collaborations Bursary, UK
2005 Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK
2004 The Arts Council England, UK
2002 Research Bursary. South East Arts Council, UK
2001 1st Prize, Nagoya University of Arts, Japan

Residencies & Workshops

 

2010

ARC Residencies Cairo (June - July 2010)

2009 London in Motion, UCL and Bartlett Film Society
2007 International Workshop for Young Artists, Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2006 Armenian Open University, Department of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
2003 Leleg Institute Project, Bodrum, Turkey
2004 University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

Education

2005 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK
1998- 01 BA (Hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton, UK
1995 -97 BA (Hons) in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2010
2008

(UPCOMING) Diego Garcia, Picture This Atelier Space, Bristol
Falling in Place, Elefsina Cultural Center ‘L. KANELLOPOULOS’, Greece

Hold Everything, Dear’, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki

2007

Accidental Woman, Kalfayan Galleries - Project Space, Athens, Greece
(collaboration with Despina Stokou)

2006 When I was there, you had already left, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece
2005 In their wake…, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece
(collaboration with Ella Bissett Johnson)
2003 Tokyo Tonight, Gumusluk Academy, Bodrum, Turkey

Group Exhibitions / Festivals

2009

Treasures of wisdom, Kaflayan Galleries, Athens, Part of ReMap KM 2, a parallel exhibition of the 2nd Athens Biennial
Fucking Tourists!,Part of ReMap KM 2, a parallel exhibition of the 2nd Athens Biennial. Curated by Konstantinos Dagritzikos & Yael Messer, Greece & Israel
Synch Festival, Technopolis, Athens. Greece. Curated by intothepill

2008 And Now?,State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. Curated by Xrisitna Petrinou (catalogue)
North West Film Forum, Seattle, USA
CineCity Festival, Lighthouse, Brighton
4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin
PureScreen,
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
6th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Armenia.
People,
Margaris Foundation, Amfilohia, Greece
Videoclub,
Hold and Freight Gallery, London
We used to be painters,
Plan 9 Gallery, Bristol
2007
Karaoke Poetry Bar, a project by intothepill, 417 Space, Athens / A Parallel program of the 1st Biennale of Athens (catalogue)
FEET, B.I.G. Project Space, online group show: www.bigprojectspace.com
What do you do, Center Space Gallery, Bristol
Atropa Vanitas, Cosmos of Culture, Athens
Attic with a view, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece
People, Athens International Art Fair, Art Athina 2007, Athens (catalogue)
1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue)
trans·par·ent 2nd edition, Kunstklub Berlin, Berlin

2006

 

 

Everything is going to be alright, The Apartment Project, Istanbul, Turkey
The sea, dreams and illusions, 5th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Armenia (catalogue)
trans·par·ent, B.I.G Contemporary Art Project Space, Athens, Greece
Landscape, Galerie Parissud, Paris, France
52 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany

2005

MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK (catalogue)
Strange Screen 5, Museum of Cinema, Thessaloniki, Greece

Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London
Art In the Age of New Technologies, 2nd International Media Art Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1st Athens Video Art Festival, Thira Texnis, Athens, Greece
Point-of-view, Espace Croise Gallery, Lille, France
36 Graven Street, Franklin Benjamin House, London, UK

2004 Projected Visions, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Manderley, Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki, Greece
Hertzoscópio - Experimental & Trans-disciplinary Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
Device, Cube Cinema, Bristol, UK
exposure 1, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
Painting with light, Café Gallery Projects, London, UK
Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2003 Variations in Balkan spaces, Eptapirgio & Bey Hamam, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue)
Strange Screen II, Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki, Greece
Lux Open, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Reel Live, Cinematheque, Brighton, UK
2002 Mobile Utopia, Aristotelio University, Thessaloniki, Greece
5th Trash Art Festival, Texnopolis, Athens, Greece

Work experience

2006-09
Digital Projects Coordinator, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
2004 Visiting Lecturer. Fine Art New Media, University College Chester
2003 Visiting Lecturer. Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton

Public Talks & Presentations

2009

Mahatma Ghandi Institute, University of Mauritius, Mauritius

2006 Armenian Open University, Department of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
2004 The School of Fine Art, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2003 Leleg Symposium, Gumusluk Academy, Bodrum, Turkey

Publications

2004 Wondering in Turkey, [a-n] The Artists Information Company
2003 New modes, new tools, new needs, [a-n] The Artists Information Company
Another World, [a-n] The Artists Information Company

Collections

The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece & Private Collections in Greece, UK and Canada

Reviews & Press

2009 Aline Groeme-Harmon (20 April) Recontre. In: L’express (Mauritius)
Sara Raza (January) Armenia. In: ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2009
2008 Lena Euagelou (5 April) New Creators. Between Fiction and Reality. In: Ta Nea (Greece)
Yiota Sotiropoulou (18 March) Personal Archives. In: Angelioforos (Greece)
Elsa Spiridopoulou (16 March) Combing Fiction and Documentary. In: Makedonia, p. 60 (Greece)
Maria Kenanidou (March 2008) Hold Everything, Dear. In: City Urban Living Magazine, p.36 (Greece)
2007 Andrea Gilbert (6 December) Fatal Circumstances. In: Uncovered City (Greece)
Adonakis Christodoulou (23-29 November) Accidental Woman. In: Blow magazine, p.43 (Greece)
Despina Zeukili (22-29 November) In: Athinorama, p. 91 (Greece)
Pari Spinou (2 September) Presenting …. Art. In: &7 Magazine, p.28 (Greece)
Maria Kenanidou (August) Attic with a View. In: City Urban Living Magazine, p.36 (Greece
2006 Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Christoforos Marinos (December) In: Velvet Magazine (Greece)
Manina Bazeou (27 May) Globalised Dead ends. In: The First, p. 16 (Greece)
Iliana Fokianaki (25 May) When I was there, you had already left. In: City 210, p. 45 (Greece)
Daphe Dragona (May) In: Velvet Magazine, p. 30 (Greece)
Iliana Fokianaki (18 May) B.I.G Transparent In: City 210, p. 46 (Greece)
Patricia Gianopoulou (11 May) In: Lifo Magazine, p.29 (Greece)
Avgoustinos Zenakos (29 April) Transparent, In: To Vima (Greece)