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EIRENE EFSTATHIOU

Lives and works in Athens, Greece
Galley Representation: Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

EDUCATION

2013-Present PhD Candidate, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens Greece
2010 Masters of Fine Arts, with honors, Athens School of Fine Art, Athens Greece
2005 Bachelors of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Medford MA
2002 Studio Art Diploma, School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston MA

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2013 Scholarship for Graduate Study, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
2009 6th Deste Prize recipient, Deste Foundation, Athens Greece
2003 Albert Henry Whitin Traveling Scholarship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
Regarding the Continuity of Disrupted Images, With Eduardo Matos, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussels Belgium

2016
I Draw, I Learn Greece, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2014
Kiafa, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2013
Memories of the Present, Mot International, Brussels, Belgium

2010
Ieras Odos Revisited, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Customer/Value/Service, Project Room of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2009
No direction home, Whitney Artworks, Portland
ME

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
It Looks Like Up To Me, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens Greece

2016
The Equilibrists, Collaboration of the New Museum, New York, DESTE Foundation, Athens, The Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2015
Blasted, Beton 7, Athens, Greece

2014
No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, Bozar Center for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
Reverb: New Art from Greece, Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA (co-curated with Evita Tsokanta)
The System of Objects, DESTE Foundation, Athens Greece

2012
How we draw a Dog, 3 137 Project Space, Athens, Greece
Vanishing Point, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece
A Gathering, poster project, curated by Maria-Thalia Carras & Olga Hatzidaki, Athens, Greece

2011
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Miami, Fl, USA
A Perpetual Present, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland ME, USA
Reference/Representation, The Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, Zone – D, Thessaloniki, Greece

2010
Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
PPP, Public Private Painting, Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium

2009
Absolute Beginners (Head Start), Contemporary Art Center Venizelos Park, Athens
Go Sinnlich, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Paint-id Contemporary Painting in Greece, Biennale: 2, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece - Alex Mylonas Museum, Athens, Greece
DESTE Prize Museum of Cycladic Art/Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Roomates, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece

2008
Selective Knowledge ITYS Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought – MIET Educational
Foundation Of the National Bank of Greece Athens, Greece

2007 Tiny Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME, USA
Portland Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME, USA
The Other Biennial at Whitney, Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME, USA

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS

[FRMK] Journal for the Investigation of Poetic Phenomena, “Artist Pages”. Issue 6 (Athens, Fall 2015)
Center for Performance Research (journal), “Art Storage/Yafka”, Photo essay, Performance Research: On Institutions. (UK, Fall 2015)
ITYS/MIET, “The Mediated Image: Excerpts from a Users Manuel” Selective Knowledge Catalog (Athens, Spring 2008)


SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Kanta, Anna-Maria, “The Cartography of the Greek Civil War in the Work of Eirene Efstathiou” Avgi (June 13, 2014)
Zefkili, Despina, “Eirene Efstathiou Iera Odos Revisited Review” Frieze (Issue 139, May 2011)
Abravanel, Nelly, “Passages in the Body of the City” Kathimerini (December, 12 2010) (in Greek)
Adamopoulou, Mary, “National Polytechnic – the Anniversary, When Event becomes Art”, Ta Nea (November, 17 2010)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS/PUBLIC ART

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Biddeford Public Schools, Biddeford Maine, Percent for Art, as part of the Maine Arts Commission