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RANIA RANGOU (Greece, Athens b. 1970 / act: Athens) |
Rania Rangou was born in 1970 in Athens. She graduated from Pierce College, and went on to study at the Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA with Panayotis Tetsis and Dimosthenis Kokkinidis (1989-1994). She furthered her studies in Madrid with a scholarship from the Erasmus Exchange Program. She went on to New York to study video art at the New School, and music and sound techniques at the School of Visual Arts.Rania Rangou presented the following personal exhibitions: Kiss My Art, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens (1997); Make Up, Astrolavos Gallery (1999); Sarah Kay's Bachelor Party, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (1999); MiArt, TinT Gallery of Athens, Milan (2000); Best Art Plus, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (2001); Best Art Plus, Astrolavos Gallery (2001); Best Art Plus, Art Hall PAEA, Porto, Portugal (2002); Zifferman, Astrolavos Gallery (2004); Delete, TinT Gallery (2005); and Antidisestablishmentarianism, a.antonopoulou.art, Athens (2010). She also took part in the following group exhibitions: For Ios: The Magazine Supplement in Eleftherotypia Newspaper, Agathi Gallery, Athens (1993); ASFA Graduates Exhibition, National Gallery, Athens (1994); Greek Artists in Spain, Greek Embassy Madrid (1995); Language, Eleftheria Park Art Center, Athens (1996); 10 Years Later, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (1997); Slim Art, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens (1997); Teachers and Students, Metamorphosis Gallery, Thessaloniki (1997); Trash Art, Technopolis, Athens (1998); Pret A(rt) Porter, DESTE Foundation, Athens (1999); Pacaembu: A Planetary Reply for the World, São Paulo, Brazil (1999); Fournos Art Workshop, Technopolis (1999); Trash Art, Barcelona (1999); Kites, Astrolavos Gallery (1999); New Art, Galeria Por Amor à Arte of Porto, Barcelona (2001); Eight Men Show, PAEA Gallery, Porto, Portugal (2003); Enter in Out: Kodra Performance, Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Thessaloniki (2003); Greek Art Today: A Project of the Museum of Bonne, Köln, Leverkusen, Germany (2004); Greece - Turkey: Meeting Point, Saint Irene Church, Constantinople (2004); Art Athina, TinT Gallery of Thessaloniki, Athens (2004, 2005); Group Exhibition, PAEA Gallery, Porto, Portugal (2006); Mail Art Project, Grechishe Kulturstiftung Berlin Goethe Institute Thessaloniki (2006); An Outing: Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century in the Beltsios Collection, Matsopoulos Mill, Trikala (2006); Drawing Screen, Museum of Cinematography, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (2006); Unfair, Kappatos Gallery, Athens - TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (2007); About Cyprus, House of Cyprus, Athens, (2007); and Same Word But Different Meaning, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki (2008); and Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits Throughout Time, ACG Art Gallery, The American College of Greece, Athens (2008). Artworks by Rania Rangou can be found at the following institutions: The American College of Greece; Beltsios Collection; Dakis Ioannou Collection, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Rethymnon Center for Contemporary Art; and the Vorres Museum.
Rania Rangou continues to live and work in Athens.
[Megakles Rogakos 07/2006]
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