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Maria Matala

Painter, Chamber of Artists' member, author, researcher, art critic,

lives and works in Greece.


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Education:

Municipality of Nikaia - Renti which operates in collaboration with the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, 2016 -2019

Fine Art University of Athens, Yorgos Lazogas, 2011-2012

Joseph Chatzipavlis’ workshop, Glyfada, 2006-2009

Thanasis Stefopoulos’ workshop, Athens, 1994-2005

Nikos Hatzikyriakos – Ghika’s workshop, Athens, 1989-1992

Solo Exhibitions:

2018- P. Faliro Association, Art books- "Apollonia and Dionysian Ecstasy" and "The two aspects of love», P. Faliro, Greece

2017- Artville, Art books- "Apollonia and Dionysian Ecstasy" and "The two aspects of love”, Glyfada, Greece

2016- Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, "Thalassa-Thalassa", Piraeus, Greece

2014- Cultural Center of the Municipality of BBB, Voula, “Mediterraneum”, Voula, Greece

2013- Alma Theater, Athenian artistic network, “Thalassa” Installation W4 xH10 meters and video, Athens, Greece

2008- Art Gallery Café, “Sunsets”, Voula, Greece

2007- Municipal Gallery of Corinth, “Parcours”, Corinth, Greece

2005- Hellenic - French Association, "Dreams and Memories", Kolonaki, Αthens, Greece

2004- Le Ver Lisant, “Old Stones”, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

2000- O.L.P. Piraeus, Poseidonia 2000, “Atlas” Installation W 4 x H 6 m, Piraeus, Greece

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021-2022- Athens School of Fine Arts, “Engraving from Prehistory to present-day Greece”, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece

2020 - Internet http-//www.eete.gr/zwgrafiki

2018-2019 – Ersi Gallery, “Art Books”, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece

2019 - Theogony Society, member of F.I.S.A.E., “Ex Libris”, Stoa tou Vivliou, Athens, Greece

2018 - Municipality of Athens, “ex-libris”, Cultural center Melina Merkouri, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece

2018 - Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, “Mediterraneum through poetry”, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Piraeus, Greece

2018 – Sfinx 2018, “Oedipus Tyrannus”, Social Sculpture Festival, City of Thebes, Greece

2017- Municipality of Glyfada, “Living Breath”, Artville, Glyfada, Greece

2016 -Petit Paris of Athens, “The fluidity of movement “, Peloponissou Station, Athens, Greece

2016 - Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, “Immigration and Emigration”, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece

2015 – Municipality of Athens, Cultural center Melina Merkouri, “Tribute to Peace”, E.E.D.Y.E. Society, Athens, Greece

2014 – Petit Paris of Athens, “Belle Epoque’s Vanity in the trenches of World War I", Finos Films, Athens, Greece

2013- ACG, “Vernal Equinox”, curator and participant, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece

2012 - Art Gallery BIOS, “The Box”, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

2010-2011 - Art Gallery Café, “Woman”, “Scapes”, Voula, Greece

2006-2009 -Sofitel Athens Airport Hotel- Spata, Greece

2008-2015- Perama, “Men, Color and Iron”, Shipbuilding Repair Zone, Perama, Greece

1995 -The American College of Greece, “A tribute to the alumni artists of Pierce College”, -Plaka, Greece

1996-2009, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus; Unesco, Piraeus, Greece

1994 - House of Cyprus, “A tribute to the alumni artists of Pierce College, The American College of Greece”, Athens Foundation ACG, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece

Public Collections:

“Corinthian Walls”, Municipal Gallery of Corinth, Greece, Donated 2007

“Attica Tradition Educational Foundation”, ACG ATHENS FOUNDATION, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece, Donated 1995

“Satyrs I”, Public Greek Museums’ shops, 2021

Publications and Media:

Solo Exhibitions:

ALBUM - “Thalassa – Thalassa”, Solo exhibition, 2016, Piraeus, Greece

ALBUM - “Atlas”, self-published, 2014, Athens, Greece  

ALBUM – “Old Stones”, Solo exhibition, 2004, Athens, Greece

Art Books

"Apollonia and Dionysian Ecstasy", self-published, 2017, Athens, Greece 

"The two aspects of love”, self-published, 2017, Athens, Greece 

Group Exhibitions - albums, C.D. and books:

ALBUM - “Engraving from Prehistory to present-day Greece” Athens School of Fine Arts, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece, 2021-2022, p.148

BOOK – “Erotokritos”, two illustrations, under the auspices of the Municipality of Glyfada, ed. Aggelaki, 2019, p. 101, 175

ALBUM - “Ex Libris”, Theogony Society, member of F.I.S.A.E, Stoa tou Vivliou, Athens, Greece, 2019, pp. 3,8

ALBUM - “ex-libris”, Municipality of Athens, Cultural center Melina Merkouri, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece, 2018, pp. 74,75,145

ALBUM – “Oedipus Tyrannus”, Sfinx 2018, Social Sculpture Festival, City of Thebes, Greece, 2018, pp. 47, 69

ALBUM - “Mediterraneum through poetry”, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Greece, 2018, p.139

CD- “Vernal Equinox”, Pierce Alumni group exhibition, curator and participant, ACG, 21 mars 2013, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece

ALBUM - “Immigration and Emigration”, Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece 2016, p.30

CD - “Tribute to Peace”, Melina Merkouri, Athens Municipality, Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., Athens, Greece, 2015

ALBUM- Art Gallery BIOS, “The Box”, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, 2012, pp. 6, 11,40-41, 73,76

ALBUM- “A tribute to the alumni artists of Pierce College, The American College of Greece”, ed. LIVANIS, 1995, pp. 79-80, p. 134, p. 168

Media

Hellenic Chamber of Artists E.E.T.E., perpetual on line exhibition-  http-//www.eete.gr/zwgrafiki

e-Voula, Newspaper online, January 2018, p. 8

CONTACT+, Cultural magazine, September – October 2018, p. 33

Afieromata, Cultural internet magazine, November 2017, http-//www.afieromata.gr/2017/11/livres-dart.html?m=1

e-Voula, Newspaper online, December 2016, p. 8

e-Voula, Newspaper online, June 2015, p. 15

KARYES, Newspaper, p.2, Winter 2015-16

e-Voula, Newspaper online, April 2014, p. 18 last page

Espresso, Newspaper, April 2012, p. 46

e-Voula, Newspaper online, June 2010, p. 14 last page

To Psaltiri, Cultural newspaper, 3rd trimester 2008, p. 11-13,

ACG College Art Highlights, Cultural magazine, April  2008, p. 47

ACG http://www.acgart.gr/ACG-COLLECTION/ARTISTS/M/MatM/MatM-art.htm and http://www.acgart.gr/ACG-COLLECTION/ARTISTS/M/MatM/MatM-bio.htm, 2007

Athènes -Accueil, trimestrial magazine, no 29, January-Mars 2005, cover

ACG Epafes, annual magazine, 1995, cover

Honors and Awards:

Luxembourg Art Prize 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

Parnassos cultural institution Award, Athens, Greece, 2008

Greek Writers Association Award, Athens, Greece, 2008

Unesco Honors 1995-2008

Grand Prix Européen des Arts et des Lettres, E.E.C., Grasse, France,1990

Member of the Following Organizations:

See me, Joined 2022

American Artists Awards, Joined 2022

O.S.D.E.E.T.E., Hellenic copyright organization, Joined 2019

Theogony Society, member of F.I.S.A.E, Joined 2018

Luxembourg Art Prize, Joined 2015

E.E.T.E., Hellenic Chamber of Artists, Joined 2014

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