4/13/09

PANOS TSAGARIS BIO/SELF PORTRAIT

Self Portrait (in Gold)
golden paper, mirror
2006

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Bio

Panos Tsagaris
Born in 1979 in Athens, Greece, Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION
1999-2004
BA in Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art&Design, Vancouver Canada.

UPCOMING
2012
"Yet to be titled", solo exhibition at Kalfayan galleries, Athens, Greece.

"Gold", group exhibition at Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria.
curated by Thomas Zaunschirm
Willi Baumeister, James Lee Byars, Sylvie Fleury, Richard Hamilton, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Emil Orlik, Victor Vasarely, Franz West, and others.

"Arrivi e Partenze", group exhibition at Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy.
curated by Flavio Arensi, Silvia Bottani, Laura Luppi and Davide W. Pairone.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
"I am The Sun In His Rising", at Kalfayan galleries, Athens, Greece

2007
"The Inability to interpret sensations in this excess of light", Assab-One Institution, Milan Italy
(performance)
"Whom I love I chastise with many rods", Galerie Fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
(performance)

2006
"The Divine Darkness", Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin Germany

2005
"Theanthropic", Up&Co Gallery, New York USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
"The west at sunset", Abrons Art Center, curated by Adrian Geraldo Saldana, New York USA
Jaq Belcher, Alberto Borea, Amy Finkbeiner, Mary Kate Maher, Rachel Pollak, Cyrus Saint Amand, Poliakoff, Adam Parker Smith, Panos Tsagaris

"Sensitivity Questioned"
, Ileana Tounta gallery, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, Athens Greece
Jean Luc Blanc, Gregory Crewdson, Jim Drain, Ryan McGinley, Michael Robinson, Daniel Silver, Daniel Subkoff, Stephen Sutcliffe, Scott Treleaven, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Christos Delidimos, Kostas Bassanos, Manolis Bitsakis, Vassilis Botoulas, Antonis Donef, Eftichis Patsourakis, Theo Prodromidis, Panos Tsangaris

2009

"Down Below it`s Chaos", at 50 Eldridge, New York USA

"Treasures of Wisdom" (Aikaterini Gegisian, Antonis Donef, Hrair Sarkissian & Panos Tsagaris). Exhibition presented by Kalfayan Galleries as part of ReMap2, an international art platform parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennial. Catalogue


"The Mystic Death of the Kiss", at the Performance Festival, curated by Eirini Papakostantinou and Demosthenes Agrafiotis. Part of "Praxis", 2nd Biennial of Thessaloniki, curated by Gabriela Salgado, Bisi Silva and Syrago Tsiara

"Mimes" Curated by Christopher Marinos at Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece

2008
"Night of the 1000 Drawings", Artist`s Space, New York USA
"AthensVille", curated by Marina Fokidis, Athens Greece

2007
"Our Space" CREAM Editions, 5th Anniversary, curated by Irene Leung. Karok Gallery, Hong Kong, China (catalogue)

"Open Plan", curated by Sotirios Bahtetzis at the Art-Athina fair, Athens Greece

2006
"M*A*S*H", curated by David Hunt, produced by Cottelson Advisers. During the Art Basel fair, Miami USA

Panos Tsagaris` work has been reviewed in various publications including Flash Art, NY-Arts magazine, CREAM, Slash magazine, Velvet magazine and other.