2012
The Watermill Center, New York, NY ;
Born in Greece
Lives and works btw New York & Athens
EDUCATION
2014
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2012
MFA in Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005
BFA, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2003
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(* denotes a catalogue publication)
2020
An Interval, Flyweight, Brooklyn, NY (Solo Project)
Overturned, curated by Anaïs Castro, Daily Lazy at artgèneve, Geneva Switzerland
2019
Away is Another Way of Saying Here, Essex Flowers, New York, NY (Solo Show)
Room for Failure, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Piero Atchugarry Gallery Miami, FL
2018
Reflections, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (Solo Show)
When You Were Bloom, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
Tomorrow's Dreams, curated by Daily Lazy, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany
Selections 2018, curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2017
.connecting., Practice, New York, NY (two-person show with Joao Vasco Paiva)
Imperceptible, curated by Xavier Acarín, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Good Weather presents: The Best Is The Least We Can Do, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Marginalia, curated by Lisa Sigal and Nova Benway, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
*bang! Daily Lazy Projects, Athens, Greece
2016
The . beneath white - Wiener Art Foundation / fAN Kunstverein, artfoundation.at Vienna, Austria (Solo Show)
The Equilibrists, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni, organized by the New Museum, New York and the DESTE Foundation, Athens in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece *
BiBeLot, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece *
Frida Smoked. Invisible Exports, New York, NY
The Others, curated by Baseera Khan, 56 Bogart, pop-up show, Brooklyn, NY
Strategies in the Geometry of Homecoming, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curatorial)
2015
Table/Chair/Bananas, Bannerette, Brooklyn, NY
Immediate Female, Judith Charles Gallery, New York, NY
Made In New York, curated by Robert Dimin, Blueshift Project, Miami, FL*
What You Want to See, curated by Laura Linda Miller, pop-up show, Bronx Studios, NY
DAS-Zwischen Raum Zeit, Pitch Projects, Milwaukee, WI
HappyLand, Skowhegan Performs, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
November, curated by mAgdalen Wong, Xinyi Cheng, and Skye Gilkerson, 437A, Brooklyn, NY
No Rules Can Rule When the Doors are Closed, Torrance Shipman, Brooklyn, NY (curatorial)
2013
DAS and Irini Miga: Stage for a Journey, ReMap4, Athens (collaborative project)
Now and Then, European Central Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany *
Group Mountain, curated by Andreas Angelidakis, Athens, Greece
In Praise of Chance and Failure, Family Business, New York, NY
(co-curated with Nadja Argyropoulou)
Outside Mediation, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT *
Contemporary Ceramics, curated by JJ Peet, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2011
Conceptual Romantic, curated by Gea Politi, CONDUITS (IT), ReMap3, Athens, Greece (Solo Show)
DESTE Prize 2011, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece *
Noor: Death in Jaipur, ReMap3, Athens, Greece
First Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, New York, NY *
Winter Lounge, curated by Emma Balazs, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Woman in Greece, curated by Marina Fokidis, The Hub, Athens, Greece *
The Location of Culture, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands *
2010
Rrripp!!! Paper Fashion, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
Of The Moment, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, Chicago, IL (benefit)
Peri Erotos, Konteiner magazine at six d.o.g.s, Athens
2009
The Beautiful is just the First Degree of Terrible, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece*
Bloodsport, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, ReMap2, Athens, Greece
Rrripp!!! Paper Fashion, Mode Museum Provincle Antwerp, Belgium *
At Home He is a Tourist, Playroom, Athens, Greece
2008
Wittingly Sparkling, Greedy Dimples, The Breeder, Athens, Greece (Solo Show)
And now? State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece *
Rrripp!!! Paper Fashion, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg *
2007
Echoes Prelude, Side 2, Tokyo, Japan (Solo Show)
Rrrippp!!! Paper Fashion, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece*
Tenderloin, ReMap1, Athens, Greece
I Sigxroni Elliniki Skini, Helexpo Garage, Athens, Greece *
True Romance, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
(co-curated)
2006
Panic Room, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece *
All that remains is future, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Palaio Arsakeio, Patra, European Cultural Capital, Patra, Greece *
Degree Show, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Architectural Transparencies, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Black and White, curated by Artemis Potamianou, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece *
2005
New Acquisitions, The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Athenaeum Intercontinental, Athens, Greece*
2004
3rd Biennale of Greek Universities of Fine Arts, Creta Maris Hotel, Crete, Greece*
2003
11th Biennale of Young Artist from Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens, Greece*
RESIDENCIES
2019
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2018
The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2016 & 17
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2015-16
Workspace Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York, NY
2015
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
(course with Raimundas Malaŝauskas)
and Norwegian Theater Academy, Fredrikstad, Norway
2009
AZB Sculpture Guest-atelier, Zurich, Switzerland
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art / Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
European Central Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
Soho House, Istanbul, Turkey
AWARDS
2018 / 2017 / 2014
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee, New York
2014
HYAM-Young Mediterranean Artistic Scene Prize, Paris (shortlisted)
2011
The DESTE Prize (shortlisted)
2010-11
The Fulbright Grant
2010-12
Joan Sovern Sculpture Award, Columbia University
2010-12
The Emily Fisher Landau Fellowship Fund, Columbia University, New York, NY
2000-02
IKY, Greek State Scholarships Foundation
RECENT PRESS MENTIONS
2018
BLOUIN ARTINFO, Larry Ossei-Mensah’s 'Selections' at Elizabeth Dee, New York
2017
Artforum, Critics' pick, Shanghai, “Scraggly Beard Grandpa” CAPSULE SHANGHAI, by Todd Meyers
Flash Art, Outside ART021 and West Bund / Shanghai Art Week, by Alvin Jiahuan Li
Ran Dian, Migratory Practice, by Benny Shaffer
The Huffington Post: Your Guide to Navigating Athens' Art Scene, Beyond documenta 14 by Natalie Hegert
2016
Ocula: The Equilibrists: A report from Greece by Stephanie Bailey
Artforum Diary: Crab Walk by Linda Yablonsky
Blouin ARTinfo: In Athens, a Debt Crisis Edition of the New Museum's Triennial by Rachel Corbett
Daily Lazy: The Equilibrists organized by the New Museum, New York, and the DESTE Foundation, Athens in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens / Athens
Daily Lazy: Irini Miga at Wiener Art Foundation / Vienna
Huffington Post: Six Women Artists Celebrate The Power Of The Cigarette by Priscilla Frank
Time Out New York: Frida Smoked by Howard Halle
The Creators Project: Six Female Artists Consider the Cigarette by Ysabelle Cheung
ARTnews: Opening: “Frida Smoked” at Invisible-Exports by the editors of ARTnews
Milk: Can smoking be a feminist act? by Jocelyn Silver
Daily Lazy: Frida Smoked. at Invisible-Exports / New York
Art F City: Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: “Frida Smoked” at Invisible-Exports by Emily Colucci
2015
Huffington Post, Ten Badass Emerging Female artist you should know, by Priscilla Frank
CURATORIAL
2018
Tomorrow's Dreams, co-curated / Daily Lazy, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany
2017
*bang! co-curated / Daily Lazy, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens, Greece
2016
Strategies in the Geometry of Homecoming, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Leisure as a Mechanism for Resistance, co-curated / Daily Lazy, Wiener Art Foundation / fAN Kunstverein, Parallel, Vienna, Austria
2014
No Rules Can Rule When the Doors are Closed, Torrance Shipman, Brooklyn, USA
2013
In Praise of Chance and Failure, co-curated with Nadja Argyropoulou, Family Business, New York, USA
2007
True Romance, Breeder, Athens
(co-curated)