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PELAGIA KYRIAZI (Greece, Athens b. 1954 / act: New York & Athens) |
Pelagia Kyriazi was born in 1954 in Athens, her origin from Methemna, Lesbos Island. She graduated from Pierce College in 1972, and studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1975-1980) in the studios of Yannis Moralis and Demosthenes Kokkinides. In 1992, she was awarded a Fulbright grant to collaborate with the artist Vassilis Lambrinos in his studio in New York. Stimulated by the artistic environment of New York, she soon developed an interest, and got involved in digital aspects of art between 1996 and 2001; photography with Peter Campus at NYU and printmaking at SVA.Kyriazi presented the following personal exhibitions: Ora Gallery, Athens (1981); Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens (1989); Onassis Cultural Center, New York (1995); Athens Art Gallery, Athens (1999); Galerie 3, Athens (2003, 2005); Pelagia Kyriazi: Psychographs, Art Center, The American College of Greece - ACG Art, Athens (2005); and Bookshop, National Bank Cultural Foundation - MIET, Athens (2009). § She also participated in the following group exhibitions: Artio Gallery, Athens (1985); Pathways: New Greek Painters, The Dimitris Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Glyfada (1985); Municipal Gallery, Athens (1990); Cultural Landscape of Europe, Kunsthalle Berlin (1991); The House of Cyprus, Athens (1991); Kouros Gallery, New York (1995); Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens (1998); Makridis Gallery, Thessaloniki (1998), Zina Athanassiadou at 6th Art Athina, Athens (1998); Biennial of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Museum of Györ, Hungary (2001); Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York (2001); International Print Center, New York (2002); In Our Image After Our Likeness, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2004); Body Metamorphoses, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2004); Unit B Gallery, Chicago (2004); and The Hellenic Festival, New York (2005). During The Hellenic Festival of 2005 the artist was commissioned to give a lecture in The New York Public Library on the occasion of her exhibition of prints from her video Tyranny of Light (2005).
Artworks by Pelagia Kyriazi are kept at the following institutions: The American College of Greece; the Greek Ministry of Culture; the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, and many private and public collections in Greece and abroad.
Currently, Pelagia Kyriazi is based in New York and Athens.
[Megakles Rogakos 09/2005]
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ROGAKOS, MEGAKLES Pelagia Kyriazi: Psychographs 2005 ACG Art, Athens
ILIOPOULOU-ROGAN, DORA Album: The American College of Greece: A Tribute to the Alumnae Artists of Pierce College 2006 ACG Art, Athens
