ELIAS KAFOUROS

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Born in 1978 in Athens, Greece

Education 2004 BA in Painting, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece 2013 Courses in Animation, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions 2016 ‘Incognito’, Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece 2013 ‘The image is unsustainable’, Francoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany 2013 ‘A thesis on the shelf’, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece 2011 ‘High on Definition’ Solo presentation, Tint Gallery, Volta 7 Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland 2008 ‘Description Fails’, K-art, Athens, Greece

Group Exhibitions 2020 ‘FUTURE FAIR’, Dio Horia Gallery, Online Edition, ArtSy ’Friends Non Show’, Dio Horia Gallery, Athens, Greece 2019 ‘In Total Light’, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece 2018 ‘Caritas Romana: 15 Acts of Devotion’,Main exhibition of the 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece ‘The Diary of a Seamstress. An Imaginary Biography’, A.Antonopoulou Art Gallery, Athens, Greece 2017 ‘1 + 9’, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece ‘On a Small Scale: Pop-Up Show’, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece ‘The Vision of Saint Void’, Depo Darm Gallery, Athens, Greece ‘MUDIA: Critique of the Mass Media’, Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Greece ‘HEY! GALLERY SHOW #1’, Galerie Arts Factory, Paris, France 2016 ‘RE-culture 4: ART NON ART’, Skagiopouleio Center, Agora Argyri, Patras, Greece ‘Swab on Paper’, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Swab Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain ‘Spain Drawing Now Paris’, AD Gallery’s booth, Paris, France ‘Birth of Coexistence’, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece 2015 ‘When Counter Culture Meets Society, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece Art-Athina, AD Gallery's booth, Athens, Greece ‘Antallaxima’, Georgiadis Mansion, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece 2014 ‘Transformation’, Depo Darm Contemporary Art Space, Athens, Greece

‘Art-Athina, AD Gallery's booth, Athens, Greece ‘Drawing Now Paris, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Paris, France ‘Self Conscious’, ACG Gallery (DEREE-The American College of Greece),Athens, Greece 2013 ‘Scream now while you can still breath: Irrational Navigations’, AD gallery, Athens ‘Art International’, AD Gallery's booth (Athens), Istanbul, Turkey ‘Art-Athina’, AD Gallery's booth, Athens, Greece 2012 ‘Strange Lands, Curated by Christopher Daniels, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, USA ‘Contemporary Istanbul’, AD Gallery's booth, Istanbul, Turkey ‘Counter Culture – The emergence of a new social subject 1983-2012’ ,CAMP!- Contemporary Art Meeting Point, Athens, Greece ‘The Newspaper show’, The Breeder, Athens, Greece ‘Drawing room’, OMIKRON GALLERY, Nicosia, Cyprus 2011 Cartographies of the unknown,50-1 Contemporary art gallery, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Show must go on’, Tint gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece ‘Art Athina’ 2011, Tint gallery, Athens, Greece 2010 ‘Artists for Athens Pride III’, The Breeder, Athens, Greece ‘Homage to Eros’, Six-dogs, Athens, Greece 2009 ‘Tower-Tower’, Nikos Alexiou- the collection, Bazaios tower, Naxos, Greece ‘It's probably not what you asked of me, Potnia Thiron-Bank of attention, Athens, Greece ‘Small detail, BIG DEAL?’, Potnia Thiron-Bank of attention, Athens, Greece 2008 ‘Mutation’, K-art, Athens, Greece 2007 ‘Crosses and cresents’, K-art, Athens, Greece ‘B’ n’ alle’, Spilioti projects, Athens, Greece ‘Erotica’, Spilioti projects, Athens, Greece 2006 ‘Capturing Utopia’, center for digital culture Fournos, Athens, Greece 2005 ‘Graduate exhibition A.S.F.A., The Factory, Athens, Greece ‘A.S.F.A. videoart exhibition’, The Factory, Athens, Greece

Projects 2014 – Collaboration with Hermes-Paris for the creation of designs for the famousHermes silk scarves onwards

Grants 2013 Fulbright Scholarship

Publications 2013 Vitamin D2 – New Perspectives in Drawing, Editors of Phaidon Press, London, UK