Curriculum vitae

Eleni Pratsi artist/art teacher

Date of birth: 31 October 1987. Place of Birth: Nicosia, Cyprus. Nationality: Cypriot. Address in Cyprus: 36, Othonos street, Nicosia, 1016 Nicosia, Cyprus. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 00357 99554885.

EDUCATION Studies

2014 DNSAP, (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques), with Distinction (avec les Félicitations du Jury), equivalent to the Master, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2012 DNAP, (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2010 DNAP, (Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques), Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Nîmes, France.

2007 Preparatory Course at l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier for the entry competition to the French Art Schools.

2006 French lessons first at the I.E.F.E, then at the Alliance Française, Montpellier, France.

2000-2003 Student at the Unified Lyceum of Acropolis, Nicosia, Cyprus.

1997-2000 Student at the Acropolis Gymnasium, Nicosia, Cyprus.

1997-2005 Drawing and Painting lessons at the School of Art En Levko, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Languages

Greek, French and English.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2017 Art teacher at the Made in France art studio, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2016 European University, Assistant of the head of the Arts department from December 2015 until June 2016.

2013 Employed at Louis Vuitton. From 2007 to 2013, I was employed (during the holidays) at the Louis Vuitton Nicosia shop as a sales assistant but also as visual merchandiser.

ARTISTIC COURSE Individual Exhibitions 2017 Thinking Circular, Is not gallery, 12-27 May, Nicosia, Cyprus. 2014 Le Chemin de la Couleur, DNSAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, galerie droite, France.

2012 DNAP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, France.

2010 DNAP, Ecole Supérieure de Beaux-arts de Nîmes, France.

Group Exhibitions

2016 Buy Art Fair Manchester, Gala Fine Art, 23-25 September, Old Granata studios, Manchester, England.

2016 Bristol Affordable Art Fair, Gala Fine Art, 9-11 September, Brunel’s old station, Bristol, England.

2016 Isnotgallery goes to Almyra, Almyra Hotel, 5-21 of June, Paphos, Cyprus.

2016 Woman’s Essence Exhibition, Hernandez Art Gallery, 1-3 of April, Milan, Italy.

2016 AAF Bruxelles 2016, Galeria Gaudi, Brussels, Belgium.

2015 Les Voyageurs, the exhibition of the students of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, who granduated in june 2014 with a distinction. President of the jury and curator of the exhibition: Hou Hanru, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, Palais des Beaux-arts, 20 october 2015-3 january 2016, Paris, France.

2015 Couleurs Power, Second edition, Galerie My Art Goes Boom, 15-27 February, Avignon, France.

2015 Lush art in austere times, Is Not Gallery, 4 February-4 March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2015 Couleurs Power, Galerie La Salamandre, 14-21 january, Nîmes, France.

2014 Pop Up Festival, Is not Gallery, 15 November-15 January, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2014 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Parc Floral de Paris, L’espace événement, 19-26 October, Paris, France.

2014 Matchmaking, ENSBA, atelier Sylvie Fanchon, 4-5 of July, Paris, France.

2014 Lush art in austere times, Is Not Gallery, 7 February-7 March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2013 Lush art in austere times, Is Not Gallery, 1st February-1st March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2012 Portes Ouvertes, ENSBA, atelier Bernard Piffaretti, 29-30 of June, Paris, France.

2012 Lush art in austere times, Is Not Gallery, 1st February-2nd March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2011 Lush art in austere times, Is Not Gallery, 11 February-24 March, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2010 Artists in Print, Is not Gallery, 24 June-14 July, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2010 Vis-à-vis, Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain. Exhibition. Within the Atelier de Recherche et de Création (A.R.C.), coordinated by Dror Endeweld and Pascal Fancony. It consists of two stages:

- Carrying out a project and defining the concept « porteur » / « carrier », painted by each participant on the Wall (Mur) Foster at the Carré d’Art (February 2010).

- Creation of a work of art and situating it within the framework of new creations at the Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain (March/April 2010).

2010 Parc des Expositions, Parc du château de Caveirac, 26 March-25 April, Caveirac, France.

REWARDS

2014 DNSAP, with Distinction (avec les Félicitations du Jury), ENSBA, Paris, France.

2012 Grant of the government of the Republic of Cyprus for my Master’s degree, 2012-13, 2013-14, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2012 First Price: at the Arts competition launched by the French Institute in Cyprus. Candidates were requested to pay a tribute to the great French artists. I had chosen Henri Matisse.

2007 Grant of the government of the Republic of Cyprus, for the three years of the diploma, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, Nicosia Cyprus.

2005 First Price in Art, for having held the first position in the subject of Art during the three consecutive years of the lyceum, Unified Lyceum of Acropolis, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2005 Aristion, Award bestowed to students having obtained an average mark over 18/20. I obtained 18,7/13, Unified Lyceum of Acropolis, Nicosia, Cyprus.

CITED IN THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS

2015 Les Voyageurs, Catalogue of the exhibition, the exhibition of the students of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris, who granduated in june 2014 with a distinction, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, october 2015, France.

2015 Diplômés 2014, Published by: Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, May 2015, France.

2015 Interviewed for the Review House & Life, (Σπίτι & Ζωή), March, N°2, (special edition), Cyprus.

2014 Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Catalogue of the exhibition, Published by: L’œil du Mulot, October 2014, France.

2014 Preview Street Life, ‘Λουσμένη Πολιτεία’, by Andros Efstathiou, Review Must, October, N°184 (special edition), Cyprus.

2010 Vis-à-vis, (A.R.C), casting a certain eye over the collection of the Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain, February-March 2010, published with the support of the D.R.A.C. Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

2010 Interviewed for the Review Cosmopolitan, August, N°116, Cyprus.