Born in Athens, Greece in 25/02/ 1978. Raised in Liege of Belgium and studied Fine Arts in Great Britain. Currently lives and works in Athens.
STUDIES:
2000 - 2005
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK, Cardiff School of Art and Design.
B.A Hons. in Fine Arts
1999 - 2000
Foundation Diploma in Fine Arts
Winchester School of Art and Design, Hampshire, UK.
1996 - 1999
Study of life drawing, color and human anatomy.
Private School of Art of Villy Kanellopoulou, Athens, Greece
AWARDS - SCHOLARSHIPS - MEMBERSHIPS:
2017 Member of the Association TO DIAZOMA
2017 Member of Cosmos of Culture
2017 Member of the archive of Neo-Greek Art of Dimitris Papageorgopoulos
2017 Member of the Ashru Archive, Kushtia, Bangladesh.
2017 Member of the Archive of Greek National Library, Athens, Greece.
2013 Member of UNESCO and the International Association of Fine Arts (AIAP).
2011 Member of the Archive of Greek Artists of EMST.
2011 Best of Worldwide Mixed Media Artists, award given after an international competition held by Kennedy Publishing US.
2008 Member of the Hellenic Art Chamber of Commerce.
2007 Member of "DESTE" Foundation and part of its Archive for the Contemporary Greek Artists, Athens, Greece.
2003 - 2005 The Shillizzi Foundation
Two - year Scholarship for the continuation of my studies.
2004 - 2005 The Sidney Perry Foundation
Award for an Art Project.
EDUCATIONAL COURSES:
April - June 2015 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
“History of Science”
December - June 2014 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
“Art”, “Archeology”.
December - March 2013 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
"Architecture".
April-July 2013 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
“History of Mathematics”.
SOLO EXHIBITION:
2018
February - April '18
"The Tree and the River"
Municipal Gallery LEFA of Psychico, Athens, Greece.
2017
December '17
"The Child that lives within ourselves"
Municipal Gallery of Kallithea "Sophia Laskaridou".
August '17
"Life has a lot of Grey shades"
Koroni Arts Festival in Maniatakeion Foundation
2016
December '16
"Life has a lot of Grey shades"
Municipal Gallery of Piraeus
2008
November '08
"Childhood Dreams"
Astrolavos - Dexameni Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2017
May-Oct. 2017
Human Rights H2O, AIAPI-UNESCO, Trento, Italy.
2016
December '16
International Art Camp,
The Crack Trust, Khustia, Bangladesh.
May '16
International Symposium of Visual Arts
Hammamet, Tunisia.
March '16
"Winter Festival 2016",
Sarajevo, International Festival for the Arts.
2015
June-October ‘15
“Philoxenia”
Museum of Contemporary Art of Chania, Crete, Greece, under the curation of Mr. Rogakos.
2014
September -November ‘14
“Resistance Now Days”
Group Show, with the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Chamber of the Arts, held in the Public Gallery of Athens, Greece.
September ‘14
“INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF PAINTING”
Campulung, Romania.
May - July ‘14
“Honor to El-Greco”
Group show in the Holy Lord’s Arcade with the Museum of Fine Arts of Crete with the Perfecture of Crete, Heraklion, Crete.
January ‘14
“Reference”
Tribute to N. Kazantzakis with the Museum of N. Kazantzakis, Crete, Greece.
2013
October ‘13
“Le Petit Paris d’ Athenes”
Group Show with the Municipality of Athens, Greece.
July - September ‘13
“The Body as a place of presence and absence”
Group Show with the University of Crete, held in Andros and Athens, Greece.
June - October ‘13
“X-Border Art Biennial”
Lulea, Rovaniemi, Severomorsk.
2012
September - October ‘12
5th International Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China.
Under the theme: “Future and Reality”
2011
November - December ‘11
“SEXplosions”
@ Booze Cooperatva, Athens, Greece, under the curation of Mr. Rogakos.
June - July '11
International Biennale of Collage and Assemblage
Belgrade, Serbia.
August '11
SYMBIOSE ART FESTIVAL
Breda, The Netherlands.
July '11
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR THE ARTS, "Parallax AF".
La Galleria, ,London, UK.
June '11
The Fringe Festival
"TECHNOPOLIS" Municipality of Athens, Peiraios 100, Gkazi. Participating as part of the Ash in Art Foundation.
May '11
Athens Video Art Festival
"TECHNOPOLIS" Municipality of Athens, Greece.
Feb '11
"An-Energy"
Group show held in Ash in Art Foundation, Athens, Greece.
2010
June - July '10
"Cross Over"
Festival for the Arts, Syros, Kos, Lesvos, Greece.
Feb '10
"H.A.S.A.P"
Group Show held by the Ash In Art Foundation, Athens, Greece, in order to raise founding and awareness about the Haiti tragedy.
2009
September - October '09
"Cross Over"
Festival for the Arts, Athens, Patmos, Ithaca, Greece.
2005
June '05
"Sometimes I wonder..."
Performance in Time - Based Space Workshop, Cardiff, UK
March '05
"Unfolding the Spiral"
Installation in Time - Based Space Workshop, Cardiff, UK
2004
December '04
"Sweet Dreams", "Sweet Dreams Little Girls"
Installations at tactileBosch Art Gallery, Cardiff, UK, as part of the group exhibition "Diversities".
March 2004
"So Long Grandpa"
Audio - Visual Installation in Time - Based Space Workshop, Cardiff, UK.
2001
July '01
"The Big Baby of the Family"
Installation at Jacob's Market Art Gallery, Cardiff, UK, as part of the group exhibition "Pick and Mix"
June '01
"Bitter, Confused and Lonely"
Installation at Jacob's Market Art Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2017
"Painting with the Children in Bangladesh"
Lecture on Symbols and Psychological and Social Extensions in Children's Painting based on the art workshops held in Paril Nawada. The lecture was given to the annual Pan-Hellenic Conference of Visual Art Teachers in the Athens School of Fine Arts in September, to the Municipality of Elefsina in October, and the Open University of Kifissia in December.
Conducting the art workshop "Learning from the child", with children aged 5 to 12.
Nowsha-Najib Environment Development Foundation, Paril Nowada, Bangladesh.
2014
Volunteer art teaching in adults of special needs
Municipality of Athens, Greece
2007 - 2010
Art Teacher in both adult and children groups
Painting Workshop of the City Council of N. Philadelphia, Athens, Greece.
2004
Organizing and currating the group exhibition "Diversities".
tactileBosch Art Gallery, Cardiff, UK.
2004
Talk about the "Archaic Smile".
Theatre of Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC, Cardiff, UK.
2001
Voluntary teaching
Woodlands High School, Ely, Cardiff, UK.
Painting and sculpture teaching to children of special needs 6 to 18 years old. The project set was drawing and woodcarving based on African and Aboriginal Art.