Vassilis Vassili

Vasilis Vasili (Greek: Βασίλης Βασίλη), born in 1964 is a Greek contemporary visual artist working primarily in sculpture.

Career

Vasilis Vasili studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, from 1992 to 1997. In 1999, he won a scholarship from the Greek Foundation of Scholarships and the Onassis Foundation. In 2001, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, USA. From 2004 to 2013, Vasilis taught at the Technological Institution of Athens, Greece. From 2006 to 2008, he taught at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Western Macedonia in Florina, Greece. In 2013, Vasilis moved to Canada, where he currently resides.

Public art works

Vassili created permanent public art installations in the following places:

1995- Konitsa, Greece
1996- University of Patra, Greece
1996- Iannena, Greece
1996- Dreieih- Frankfurt, Germany
2000- Lemesos, Cyprus
2000- Kalamata, Greece
2002- Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
2004- Train Station Pefkakia, Athens, Greece
2004- Dionyssos, Attica, Greece
2006- Piraeus, Greece
2006- Katerini, Greece
2006- Antalya, Turkey
2008- Aniksi Attica, Greece
2011- Paros Island, Greece
2011- Iannena, Greece
2011- Polis Crysoxous, Cyprus
2015- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2016- Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
2016- Saranda, Albania
2017- Ayia Napa, Cyprus
2018- Herakleion Crete.
2019- BenQ Foundation, Taiwan.
2020- Uttarayan Art Foundation, Vadodara , India..
2021- Sculpture Symposium, Serres, Greece.
2022- International Sculpture Symposium, Municipality of Patras, Greece.
2022- International Sculpture Symposium, Jualienne, France.
2023- International Sculpture Symposium, Ambaji, India.
2023- Sculpture Symposium, University of Western Macedonia, Florina, Greece.
2024- International Sculpture Symposium, Riyadh, S. Arabia.

Exhibitions

Vassilis has had exhibitions at the following institutions: Burgerhaus, Dreieich, Frankfurt, Germany (1998); “Epoxes” Gallery, Athens, Greece (1998); Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA (2001); Titanium Gallery, Athens, Greece (2003); Titanium Gallery Athens Greece (2005); Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece (2008).

Selected group exhibitions include:

1995- M. Merkouri Foundation, Athens, Greece
1995- State Bank of Greece Athens, Greece
1996- M. Merkouri Foundation Athens, Greece
1997- National Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997- Outdoor show, Pllaka, Athens, Greece
1997- “Epoxes” Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997- Outdoor show, Salonica, Greece
1998- Global Stone Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden
1998- Drawing show, Svetsingen, Germany
1998- City Hall, Psyxiko, Athens, Greece
2000- Destination Philadelphia, Convention Centre, Philadelphia, USA
2001- Snapshots, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
2001- 5 into 1, Philadelphia Sculptors’ Show. Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2001- Artower Agora, Athens, Greece
2002-Wiesbaden, Germany
2003- The Burnished Chariot, NewLondon, C.T, USA
2003- Its Kale, Giannena, Greece
2006- Gallery Crysa Katerini Greece
2007- Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece
2008- Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, Greece
2009- Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece
2010- Art Space Gazi. Athens

External links

Vasili, Vasilis. "Home - vvasili.com". vvasili.com.
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Niculita, Alexandru. "Sculpture Park". www.limassolmunicipal.com.cy.
"Vassilis Vassili Βασίλης Βασίλη) - Public art of Cyprus". publicart.ouc.ac.cy.
"2013 "Επιλέγω να... στην Τέχνη, στη Ζωή"". empe-alterity.blogspot.ca.
"ΘΕΟΦΑΓΙΑ". theofagia.blogspot.ca.
"ΓΛΥΠΤΙΚΗ -". staseis.wordpress.com.
"εικαστικοί καλλιτέχνες".
"Δραστηριότητες Υποτρόφων - Εικαστικά". www.onassis.gr.
"vassilis vassili : Tο εμείς και το εδώ".
"12 Artists - 12 Barbershops - Athens". 1212inathens.tumblr.com.
"Το πρώτο συμπόσιο γλυπτικής Πάρου, ένας διάλογος με το μέλλον". 21 June 2011.
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