CV

Yorgos Giotsas attended classes of painting at the School of Fine Arts in Greece and Graphic Design at Hertfordshire University in the UK. He lived in London, Istanbul and Athens.
Today he is working in Florence, spending time as well in Greece.
Several of his works belong to private and public collections in Greece and a number of other countries.
In particular at the Museum for Contemporary Art of the 1900s in Monsummano – Italy, at the Hungarian Open Air Museum at Szentendre (Budapest) in Hungary, at the Museum Kresow of Lubaczow in Poland, at Queens College in New York, USA, at the Consulate General of Greece, New York, USA and at the Italian -American Museum, New York, USA.
Solo exhibitions

2018 Uncertain  Alphabet, Queens College Art Center, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library ,Queens College, City University of New York, U.S.A. Curator: Amanda Nocera,  director Art Department, Queens  College,  New  York.

2017  Uncertain  Alphabet, Desmos art gallery, Paris,  France, Curator: Amanda Nocera,  director Art Department , Queens  College,  New  York.

2017 Logos Lost, immaginaria arti visive gallery, Florance, Italy Curator: Giuliano Serafni, art historian.

2017 Passage, Italian American Museum, New York, USA, Curator: Paola Cassinelli, art historian,
Co-curators for the ItalianAmerican Museum: Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa, Janine Coyne and Antonio Petracca.

2017 Matter First, Biblioteca Angelica, Roma, Italia – Consulate General of Greece, New York, USA, Curator: Giuliano Serafni, art historian.

2017 There is a Land, Theorema Art Gallery, Brussels, Curator: Louisa Karapidaki, art historian.

2017 Matter or Nothing, Peritechnon Karteris Art Gallery, Athina, Greece Curator: Giuliano Serafni, art historian.

2015 White View, Municipal Art Gallery of Mykonos, Greece Curator: Louisa Karapidaki, art historian.

2014 Sgraffto, Peritechnon Karteris Art Gallery, Athina, Greece Curator: Louisa Karapidaki, art historian.

 

 

Selected Group exhibitions

2017 Senza Terra, An Installation giving honour to immigrants, Queens College in New York, USA, based on the project directed by Dr Nicholas Alexiou, Professor in Sociology. 2017 Aşk Festivali, Life is Love, Istanbul 360o, Turkey/Curator: Işık Gençoğlu.
2017 Shoah, Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Monsummanno Terme – Pistoia, Italia/ Curator :Paola Cassinelli, art historian.
2016 Tragitti, Museo di Arte Contemporanea e del Novecento, Monsummanno Terme-Pistoia, Italia/ Curator: Paola Cassinelli, art historian.
2016 Farmacia di Ponte Vecchio, Firenze, Italia / progetto: Paola Cassinelli, art historian. 2016 Parcours d’Artistes, St Gilles&Forest, Theorema Art Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgique. 2016 Ploes, Territories of the South – Petros and Marika Kydonieos Foundation, Andros, Greece/Concept and texts: Athina Schina, art historian.2016 Art-Athina, International ContemporaryArt Fair of Athina
Platform: Stuff + – Between ideal and reality, together with Pawel Warchol and François l’Hotel / Curator: Louiza Karapidaki, art historian.2016 Art-Athina, with Peritechnon Karteris Art Gallery, Athina, Greece.2016 Stuff +, Hellenic American Union, Athina / Curator: Louiza Karapidaki, art historian.2016 Oltre il libro: l’arte del presente incontra i libri del passato, Biblioteca Angelica, Roma, Italia, text of Giuliano Serafni, art historian.2016 Art and Archives, Museum Kresow, Lubaczow, Poland / Curator: Louiza Karapidaki, art historian. 2016Aşk Festivali, Love in World, Istanbul 360°, Turkey / Curator: Işık Gençoğlu.2015 FEK & ART, National Printing Institution of Greece, organized by the Greek Government, Athina, Greece / Curator: Louiza Karapidaki, art historian.2015 Artistic project on the occasionof the performance of the play Oedipe tyran at the Theater of Place des Martyrs, organized by the TheoremaArt Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgique. 2015 Invisible Cities(ItaloCalvino),Italian Cultural Center of Athina,Greece/Curator:Ira Papapostolou,art historian. 2015 Preadexhibition, Technohoros Art Gallery, Athina, Greece / Comm.: Louiza Karapidaki, art historian. 2015 Day and Night, Istanbul 36O°, Turkey / Curator: Işık Gençoğlu. 2015 Affordable Art Fair Milano, Ambre Studio Italia, Milano, Italia. 2015 Art-Athina, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Greece: Platform: Nature in Love-one, together with the sculptor Ibrahim Koç / Curators: Louiza Karapidaki and Işık Gençoğlu 2015 Time and Chronus, Kanellopoulos Cultural Center, Elefsina, Greece / Curators: Georgios Thanopoulos and Louiza Karapidaki.
2015 Aşk Festival, Nature in Love, Istanbul 360°, Turkey / Curator: Işık Gençoğlu.2014 I Took the Courage to Praise: 150 years from the birth of Eleftherios Venizelos. European Cultural Centre of Delphoi / Curator: Louisa Karapidaki, art historian.
2014 Cibarsi Creativamente, Studio Ambre Italia, Milano, Italia / Curator: Federica Mingozzi. 2014 Le Fate degli Elementi, Studio Ambre Italia, Milano / Curator: Federica Mingozzi. 2014 Ιncontri di Diverse Culture, Studio Ambre Italia, Milano / Curator: Federica Mingozzi. 2014 Αrt Fair Monaco, Contemporary Art Fair, Principauté de Monaco. 2014 Art Fair Genova, Italia. 2014Architecture and Pastoral Life, Hungarian OpenAir Museum, Szentendre,Budapest, Hungary/Curator: Louisa Karapidaki, art historian. 2013 TheSheep. Celebrating Pastoral Life.Architecture and Art,Ethnographic Museum of Arachova,and Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athina, Greece / Curator: Louiza Karapidakis, art historian.2009 Christmas Art Fair, Anna Papadaki, Art Space, Athens, Greece. 2008 It Smells like Spring, Anna Papadaki, Art Space, Athens, Greece. 2007 Randomly Scattered, Anna Papadaki, Art Space Athens, Greece. 2006 17 Artists create inspired from Christmas, Anna Papadaki, Art Space, Athens, Greece.