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Born 1960, Athens GR.
Lives and works in Milan IT and Athens GR.

Education
1995 - 1996
Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne DE, Dept. of Film & Television
1989 - 1991
Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan IT/ Industrial Design
1983 - 1987
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan IT/ Painting
1981 - 1983
Vakalo School of Art and Design, Athens GR/ Interior Design

Scholarships/ Fellowships
1995 - 1996
Fellowship of Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne DE
1989 - 1991
Scholarship of EOMMEX, Athens GR

Teaching (selection)
2001-03
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan IT/ Docent of video and computer arts
2000-01
Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan IT/ Visiting professor (experimental video)
1998-00
Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens GR/ Docent & Coordinator of the video dept.
1996-98
Accademia di Belle Arti, Bergamo IT/ Docent
1996-97
Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples IT/ Docent
1995
Politecnco di Milano, Dept. of Urban Design/ Tutor

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002
Short Tales of the Black Forest, AD Gallery, Athens GR
2001
Absolut Lights, Orpheus Gallery, Athens GR
Fast-FWD, Galleria il Graffio, Bologna IT
1999
Fast-Food Sequences, Kappatos Gallery, Athens GR
Cenro Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano (with Goran Petercol), Milan IT
1998
Body and Soul, Associazione culturale Viafarini, Milan IT
In - Out, Centro Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano, Milan IT
i Centre pour l' image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva CH
1996
Fast-food 1992-1995, Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck AT
Star Tricks, Associazione culturale Viafarini, Milan IT & Overstolzenhaus Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne DE
1994
Electra's steps (with Vanessa Beecroft), Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan IT
Deep C, Gallerie Analiz, Geneva CH
1993
Bathrooms, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan IT
1992
Big Yellow Taxi, Lo Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi, Milan IT
1990
Negative Light, Lo Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi, Milan IT
1987
Airplanes, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan IT

Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Hybrid Stories From the EMST Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR
2005
Arte a San Giovanni Valdarno dagli anni '60 ad oggi, Contemporanea 05, Casa Masaccio, Tuscany IT
Heavy Food, Teatro Sociale, Bergamo IT
2004
Videosservatorio04, Festivity of the Unit, Modena IT
Catch the Light: Routes through Athens, Athens 2004, various locations, Athens GR
Breakthrough! Greece 2004: Prospects in Contemporary Art, ARCO '04, Alcala 31, Madrid ES
ARCO '04, AD Gallery, Madrid ES
2003
Acquisitions 2001-2002, Photography and Video, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR
City Roads, F.A.Q. - XVI Edition, Saint Castel Peter Terme, Bologna IT
Initinere, various locations, Casarano, IT
Art Athina 03, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Warm Up, Neon/ Campobase, Bologna IT
2002
The Overexcited Body, University of Geneva, Geneva CH & Queens Museum, New York, US
Housing Sculpture, 4th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro
Speak to the Man on the Street, 4th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje, Montenegro
2001
Beyond Origin, Hellenic American Union, Athens GR
The Overexcited Body, Velodromo e Museo dell' Arengario, Milan IT & SESC Pompeia, Saï Paolo BR
2000
Objecthood 00, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon, Crete GR
Over the Edges, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent BE
Film Screenings, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich DE
366 Days, Muka Gallery, Auckland NZ
Synopsis I, National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens GR
Thrilos 2001, Flourmills Sarantopoulos, Piraeus, Athens GR
1999
TV Trasmission of the video Star Tricks, during the programe 'Onda Anomala', RAI 3 IT
Invideo '99 Senza Cornice, IX Edizione, Triennale di Milano, Palazzo d' Arte, Milan IT
Public Art in Italy, Associazione culturale Viafarini, Milan IT
Collection 1998 - 1999, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Arte in Movimento, Stazione Termini, Rome IT
Arena 1999, Mastio di Ezzelino, Cortile di Castel San Zeno, Montagnana IT
Serendipiteit, Watou Poeziezomer '99, Watou BE
The Edge of Awareness, P.S.1, New York, USA & Palazzo della Triennale, Milan IT
In Uso, Museo Michetti, Pescara IT
Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena IT
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, San Giovanni Valdarno IT
Objecthood 00, Hellenic American Union, Athens
1998
Dibbets, Roni Horn, Dimitris Kozaris, Jenny Marketou, Paola Di Pietri, Kappatos Gallery, Athens GR
5th International month of photography, Hellenic Centre for Photography, Athens GR
Torre Bella Magica, Expo Tor Bella Monaca, via Fernando Conti, Rome IT
Fast Forward, Festival of New Italian Filmakers, Brown University, Providence RI, US
Eventi/ Azioni/ Esposizioni, Festival Internazionale di Trento e Rovereto, Spazio Fabrika Temporaneo d' Arte, Rovereto IT
La Coscienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome IT
Cinema d' anticipation, Centre pour l' Image contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneva CH
Garry Hill, Robert Wilson, Tracey Moffat, Skip Arnold, Dimitris Kozaris, Centre Saint Gervais, Geneva CH
1997
Greek Realities, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense DK
Bandits-Mages, 5th International forum of audiovisual and multimedia art, Bourges FR
Open studios, Magazzini generali, Milan, IT
Trash, Museo di Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Trento IT
Transit, CACT Centro d' Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzova CH
Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan IT
Fatto in Italia, Centre d' Art Contemporaine, Geneva CH
Fatto in Italia, ICA, London UK
Materria Prima, Festival Internazionale di Trento et Rovereto IT
Visual Rave, Associazione Umanitaria, Milan IT
1996
Greek Realities, Stiftung Neue Kultur, Berlin DE
To die by one's own hand, Centro Sociale LINK, Bologna IT
Olympic fire, Archaeology Museum of Olympia, Olympia GR
Push ups, The Factory, Athens GR
Electronic Undercurrents, National Gallery, Copenhagen DK
Video Forum, Art Basel 96, Basel CH
Arte in video, L' Atlantique cafe, Milan IT
Cinevideo Forum, Munster DE
VideoFestival di Locarno, CH
1995
Dialogues of Peace, Palais des Nations of O.N.U., Geneva CH
Oltre la normalita concentrica, Palazzo da Zara, Padova IT
Low Tech, Christine Konig Galery, Vienna AT
Video Forum, Art Basel 95, Basel CH
Anni 90 Arte a Milano, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan IT
Nacked City, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan IT
VHS/ Nuove sincronie, Palazzina Liberty, Milan IT
L' Imposssibile, Spazio via Farini, Milan IT
I nutrimenti dell' Arte, Case di Stefano, Gibellina IT
Cose dell' altro mondo, Flash Art museum, Trevi IT
Club Berlin - Kunst Werke, 46th Venice Biennale, Venice IT
Contemporanei, Sala Multimedialedi Borgo S. Caterina, Bergamo IT
Caffe contact, Bar Dos Equis, Cologne DE
Project for Europe: Art and Resistance in the English garden, National Gallery, Belfast, North Ireland & Centre Cultural Andre Malraux, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Moby Dick, Arsenale di Pisa IT & John Hansard Galery, Southampton UK
Progect Radici, Stabilimento di Villa D' Ogna, Bergamo IT
VideoFestival di Locarno CH
1994
Europe Rediscovered, Gallerie N.D. Marquardt, Copenhagen DK
Videoworks, Gallery Esther Schipper, Cologne DE
Rien a signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva CH
Techne & Metis, Famagusta Gate, Nicosia CY
Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi IT
Ars Lux, Bologna IT
Video works, Gallery Fac Simile, Milan IT
Domestic violence, c/o Gio Marconi, Milan IT
1993
Pretty Visible, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia IT
Aperto 93, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice IT
Nachtschattengewachse, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel DE
Documentario, Spazio Opos, Milan IT
Le meraviglie d' Italia, Galleria Care Of, Milan IT
Micro-Mega, Galleria Arco di Rab, Rome IT
M. Airo, J. Dunning, T. Grunfeld, D. Kozaris, T. Merrick, M. Honert, T. Kirchhoff, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan IT
1992
IFP, W. Staehle, M. Airo, D. Kozaris, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan IT
Scala 1/ Infinito, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan IT
Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix, Geneva CH
Retablo, Palazzo Municipale, Piacenza IT
5° Teorema, Galleria Marco Rossi Lecce, Rome IT
Molteplici Culture, Convento S. Egidio, Rome IT
1991
Visionaria, Associazione Via Farini, Milan IT
1989
Contro Terzi, Citta di Soncino, Cremona IT
1988
Salon Primo, Galleria Cafiso, Milan IT
Politica, Citta di Novi Ligure, Piemonte IT
1986
1° Premio di pittura, Lions Club, Milan IT
2nd Biennial of Young European Artists, Thessaloniki GR
1985
Mostre, Casa degli Artisti, Milan IT