I am a Greek multimedia artist, currently living in NY. My work stems from a need for direct communication with people and an admiration for the mundane. My creative practice is a multidisciplinary cross between performance art, video, and installation. I use elements from many different disciplines, to explore their different relationships and the boundaries of each one. I use humor; I mingle theatrical elements with essential familiar actions, always trying to find a space in which public and private experiences converge.

I like looking at objects and imagine they are something else. Thus a feather becomes breath, a bathtub a rescue boat and a subway cart a living room.

Texture in my work is very important. Whether my work is video, collage or clay animation it is essential to make sure that the work has a hand-made feeling.

For that, in my video work, I use a lot of close-ups and blurriness, to leave an ambiguity that makes the piece almost abstract, and open for the viewer to place his own pictures, in the frame that I construct for him. My videos focus, but not exclusively, on the exploration and boundaries of eroticism and violence.

My paintings, due to my unique collage technique resemble animal skins. The explorations and notion of physicality are key elements of my work. My work is sensitive and playful; it has a child-like explorative eye and a dark hidden element.

 

EDUCATION

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
MA, Interactive Telecommunications Program, 2006

Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, Florence, Italy
Study of classical sculpture, 2004

Acto School of Design, Athens, Greece
Selected photo classes, 2003

Columbia College Chicago
BFA, Installation Art, Sculpture & Photography, 2002

Sxedion School of Classical Drawing, Athens, Greece
Classical drawing lessons, 1998

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Big Sur Spirit Garden, Big Sur, CA 2009
Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY 2008
Experimental Television Center Residency, Newark Valley, NY 2007
Best Experimental Work, DiGit 2006, Delaware Arts Center, NY 2006
Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship, Study of Classical Sculpture, Florence Italy 2004
Albert Weisman Scholarship, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2001
Fashion Columbia, First price in 3-D Category, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2001

SOLO SHOWS

If I asked you, Could you tell me how it started... 2007
Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece

Nests, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece 2004

Home Sweet Home, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2002

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS & SCREENINGS

2011

Project Greek Island, Space of Historical Memory, Athens Greece

2010

Pater Imon, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

2009

Art in General, New York, NY
Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece

2008

Swing Space Open House, Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Electromedia Works Festival, Athens, Greece
Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2007

Leviathans, Tel-Aviv, Israel
WYSPA Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland
Mobile Archive, Hamburg, Germany
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece

BAC 41 International Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

2006

Inport International Video - Performance Festival, Estonia
DIGit 2006, Delaware Arts Center, Best Experimental Work
Open Zone, Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY
1st Williamsburg Festival, Brooklyn, NY
BAC 40th International Film and Video Festival,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Archive Project, Israel Center for Digital Art, Israel
Bap, Bushwick Art Project (BAP) Brooklyn, NY
Spring Show, ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, NY
Anigma ‘06, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia

2002

Senior Show, Columbia College Chicago, IL

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

Sekhmet/Sicmet, Times Square, NY 2007
2 $, Union Square Park, NY 2006
Drawing Lessons, Tisch building sidewalk, NY 2006
Feed Me, Washington Square Park, NY 2006
The Subway Show, L metro train (In collaboration with Nurit Bar-shai) 2005

TEACHING

IDC, Parsons School of Design, The New School University, New York, 2008
New Media

Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, 2007
Video Art

TALKS

Dana Discovery Center, Central Park West, 2008
LA LUTTA Group, Documentary Youth Program, New York

Vision Education, 2007
Student Professional Orientation & Media Applications, New York