Marina Kassianidou

2024

A Partial History

NARS Foundation
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Opening: April 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm (EST)
Duration: April 12 - May 15, 2024
Marina Kassianidou in conversation with Mary Annunziata and publication launch: May 15, 6:00 - 7:00 pm (EST)
Opening hours: Monday – Friday 12:00 - 5:00 pm (EST)

NARS Foundation is pleased to announce A Partial History, an ongoing work engaging with the multidimensional character of marks, language, translation, embodiment, knowledge, and history.

Kassianidou began this work in 2016, as she was leaving her home country, Cyprus, and immigrating to the US. The work revolves around a collection of 19th and early 20th-century books—primarily schoolbooks—written in Greek, that belonged to the artist’s grandparents and great-grandparents and that the artist found in her late grandmother’s library. Fields covered in these books include history, geography, Greek grammar, and religious studies.

 Kassianidou “re-reads” each book as a material object rather than a text, focusing on marks of use and time: folds, creases, tears, stains, pencil marks, discolorations, and wormholes. For each book, she meticulously traces these marks by hand, page by page, and then prints and binds the drawings into a new book containing only the excavated marks. The recreated books become archives of lines, suggesting narratives of time, touch, and distributed agency. They become alternative history books, recording the history of handling of each original book—a history unfolding in parallel with family, local, national, and world events.

Furthering this process of book translation, Kassianidou makes two-sided graphite drawings based on the book tracings. These drawings are approximately ten-time magnifications of the tracings, referencing human scale. One drawing corresponds to one book, with one side depicting the marks from the odd pages superimposed and the other side the marks from the even pages. The accumulated lines map the shifting terrain of each book while compressing time and revealing its effects all at once.

The exhibition juxtaposes two languages: Greek, which may be unreadable to a non-Greek-speaking audience, and the drawn marks, which evoke different forms of “reading” and “writing.” The “unreadable” marks recall an embodied and potentially shared mode of knowing, one that depends on touching, feeling, and handling objects. These marks may be more readable to a non-Greek-speaking audience than the Greek characters in the original books. The lines between readability/unreadability and language/non-language dissolve through our shared movement in and touching of the world.

The work presented in the exhibition was supported, in part, by a CHA Faculty Fellowship from the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, and by a RIO Arts & Humanities Grant from the Research & Innovation Office at the University of Colorado Boulder.

https://www.narsfoundation.org/2024-exhibitions/marina-kassianidou-a-partial-history

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2023

other than it ever was

Biggin Gallery
Department of Art & Art History
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Duration: December 15, 2023 - January 25, 2024
Artist talk and closing reception: January 25, 2024 at 5 pm CST
Opening hours: Monday – Friday 7:45 am – 4:45 pm CDT and by appointment (contact 334-844-4373 or art@auburn.edu)

The works in this exhibition by Marina Kassianidou include paintings, drawings, and collages on patterned fabrics, wood, engineered wood, and wood-patterned vinyl—surfaces commonly found in interior spaces. The artist herself grew up surrounded by such materials. Her maternal grandmother was a seamstress and sewed many of the family’s clothes, as well as curtains, tablecloths, and pillow covers, oftentimes using floral fabrics. Likewise, wood-patterned vinyl was used to cover floors and furniture in the house the artist was raised in.

These materials reference nature while turning it into ordered and reproducible images and functional objects. They reveal a perhaps shared human need to have images of nature inside our homes and on our bodies, albeit in more controlled ways. Floral fabrics, for example, display repetitive patterns in which flowers grow uniformly. Other domestic materials absurdly pretend to be something else. Wood-patterned vinyl, for example, mimics wood. In places like Cyprus, the artist’s native country, vinyl is a cheaper alternative to wood, making (the image of) wood more readily available. The material of wood is thus replaced by its image, which, in turn, becomes a construction material.

With each work, the artist is looking for ways to inhabit these materials that already inhabit our homes and bodies. By painting over parts of the image, reorganizing the image using collage, or by recreating parts of an image/material in another material, the artist burrows into each surface, “excavating” it and unearthing potentially unseen narratives. All interventions arise through a conversation with the material—they come as a response to its appearance, materiality, use, or history.

As a result of this mode of working, the artist’s interventions and their relationships to each pre-existing surface are sometimes subtle. Confusion may arise between printed images, collaged marks, natural marks, and painted and drawn marks. The works sometimes emerge as paintings, sometimes as collages, and sometimes as readymade fabrics or as pieces of wood. The seemingly straightforward materials with which the works are made become objects of study and visual excavation, sites of complexity and contradictions. Kassianidou’s overall practice approaches mark making not as a means of imposing one’s presence but as a mode of becoming attentive and of responding and relating to something other—a surface, a space, the world around us.

Several of the works in this exhibition were completed during artist residencies at The Center for Drawing UAL (London, UK), Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap, Georgia), Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, Illinois), and The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, Massachusetts).

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TRYST Alternative Art Fair

Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA
October 27 - 29, 2023
VIP Preview: Friday October 27, 4 - 6 pm
Hours: Saturday + Sunday (October 28-29), 12 - 6 pm

TRYST presents a panorama of diverse artistic voices addressing a range of issues from different types of artist groups, with various structures, that exemplify the myriad ways that these initiatives support and grow the art world. From the newly founded, to the ‘established’ groups across LA, international, and national groups, TRYST offers a wider view of the current developments in emerging contemporary art as well as insight into the many ways artists form and run grass-roots organizations and art spaces. 

Participating in TRYST with Dinghy Rig (Fort Collins, Colorado).

https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/tryst
https://dinghyrig.hotglue.me/

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Paper Trails: Publishing Methods as Connective Tissue

Tapper, Limassol, Cyprus
Part of Limassol Artwalks
October 20 - November 2, 2023

The exhibition Paper Trails brings together a diverse range of artists’ publications (bookworks, maga(zines), book objects, chapbooks, photo books, etc.) and explores how these acts of publishing form connections between artists and their audience, how they foster networks and communities, disseminate ideas, and exchange knowledge. These various manifestations of the book also reveal how connections which transcend the borders of Cyprus are formed and sustained.

Curation: Loizos Olympios

Graphic Design: Anastasia Melandinou

anachoresis - Urban Radicals, Marina Christodoulidou, Evagoras Vanezis / ANBAU / Αntonis Georgiou / Archive Ensemble / ΑΩ / Becoming Press / Giorgos Gerontides / Cake Journal / Diana Georgiou / Evelyn Anastasiou / Elena Toymazi / Eleni Anastasiou / Endrosia / Efi Savvides / Hasan Aksaygin / Klavdia Balampanidou / Leontios Toumpouris / Loizos Olympios / Maria Editions / Maria Toumazou / Marina Georgiou / Marina Kassianidou / Marios Pavlou / Miriam Gatt / Natalie Yιaxi / Othonas Charalampous / Orestis Lazouras / Panayiotis Andreou / Peter Eramian / Pick Nick / Reliable Copy / Ria Alexandrou / Ruth Keshishian / Serap Kanay / Sessions / Silvio Rusmigo / Studio Operative / The Island Club Press / Torque Editions

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Pop Up (Marks) of Common

Limassol Municipal Arts Center/Apothikes Papadaki, Limassol, Cyprus
Part of Limassol Artwalks
October 20 - 22, 2023

Organized by Phytorio - Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association

Raissa Angeli, Othonas Charalambous, Kyriaki Costa, Rebecca Efstathiou, Elpida Frangeskidou, Anastasia Fysa, Lenia Georgiou, Ketta Ioannidou, Elina Ioannou, Marina Kassianidou, Kakia Katselli, Elena Kouma, Melita Kouta, Phanos Kyriacou, Victoria Leonidou, Maria Loizidou, Andreas Mallouris, Anastasia Mina, Eleni Mouzourou, Eleni Odysseos, Alexandra Pambouka, Maria Papacharalambous, Sophia Papacosta, Nicoletta Papamichael, Andreas Pashias, Meropi Pavlou, Simone Philippou, Efi Savvides, Christina Skarpari, Milenko Stevanovic, Leontios Toumpouris, Maria Trillidou, Vassia A. Vanezi, Natalie Yiaxi

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Faculty Exhibition: 2023

Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
September 8 - December 22, 2023
Opening reception: September 7, 2023, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Curated by Hope Saska

Mark Amerika, August Black and Betsy Biggs, Scott Chamberlin, Matt Christie, Laura Devendorf, Kim Dickey, Erin Espelie, Steven Frost, Alvin Gregorio, Marina Kassianidou, Jeanne Liotta, Jeanne Quinn, Yumi Janairo Roth, Martha Russo, Richard Saxton, Joel Swanson, Alex Sweetman, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Michael Theodore, Luis Valdovino and Dan Boord, Mike Womak, Melanie Yazzie

https://www.colorado.edu/cuartmuseum/exhibitions/upcoming/faculty-exhibition-2023

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Call Sol: The Enduring Legacy of Sol LeWitt

Art Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
August 23 - October 27, 2023
Opening reception: September 28, 4:30 pm, talk by Janet Passehl, exhibiting artist and curator of Sol LeWitt Collection
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12:00 - 4:00 pm, Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 - 7:00 pm, Saturday 11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Curated by Julia Wintner

David Borawski, Linda Casbon, David S. East, Edie Fake, Marina Kassianidou, Abigail Levine, Sol LeWitt, Linda Lindroth, Rachel Mica Weiss, Janet Passehl, Peter Pincus, Karin Schaefer

https://www.easternct.edu/art-gallery/exhibitions/call-sol-the-enduring-legacy-of-sol-lewitt.html

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Residency

Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, Illinois, USA
June 19 - July 7, 2023

Participating artists/writers/composers: Mengmeng Wang, Camila Santos, Masha Ryskin, Serge Marchetta, Jungin Angie Lee, Marina Kassianidou, Chelsey Hillyer, Meghan Guidry, Antonietta Grassi, Gina Frangello, Stephanie Carpenter, Seth Bockley

https://www.ragdale.org/residents

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We are no longer beings but sensations

DXIX Projects
Office K102A (Painting area)
Visual Arts Building, Department of Art and Art History, Colorado State University
551 W. Pitkin Street, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA (visitors can park at the Lory Student Center parking)
Opening: April 6, 5:00 - 7:00 pm; Artist talk between 5:00 and 5:30 pm, opening will follow
Duration: April 6 - September 30, 2023 (open through the summer)
Opening hours: By appointment
** No shoes allowed in the space

DXIX is pleased to present We are no longer beings but sensations, a solo exhibition project by artist Marina Kassianidou. This project is a site-responsive installation of works that fit within and are framed by existing elements in the space of K102A Office. The works primarily include paintings and collages on patterned fabrics, engineered wood, and wood-patterned vinyl. These mass-produced surfaces are commonly found in domestic spaces, forming part of the constructed interior landscapes in which we exist.

Due to the artist’s process of working and her sometimes small and subtle gestures, confusion arises between the printed images, the collaged marks, the natural marks, and the painted marks. The works sometimes emerge as paintings, sometimes as collages, and sometimes as readymade fabrics or as pieces of wood. They, thus, challenge the viewers’ eyes, asking them to pay attention to seemingly straightforward materials. Marina’s interventions turn these materials into objects of study and visual excavation, bringing them to the foreground while uncovering their complexity and contradictions. She aims for a gradual shift in perception, an increase in awareness and sensitization that partially turns these materials and the space itself into a field of sensations. Marina’s interventions provoke a re-signification of their surrounding built environment. Her interventions perform as arrows that point at this specific site (the office environment) enhancing aesthetic agencies latent in its everyday functional appearance. As a result of this process, the everyday office work environment becomes the subject of careful aesthetic consideration and observation. Ordinary details from walls, windows, carpet, shelf, table, chairs, outlets, sideboards, surfaces, textures, colors, now become remarkable formal events surfacing from the realm of the uneventful, barely visible mundane, and presenting themselves to the viewer as a baroque ensemble of visual experiences. Marina’s work seems to be aligned with those poetics of “the endotic”. The endotic is an artistic or literary practice that focuses on the ordinary as opposed to the extraordinary, the exotic. However, in an interesting plot twist, the ordinary or minor in Marina’s work is rich and exuberant.

The exhibition is accompanied by a small online and physical publication with a text by Maria Petrides: https://issuu.com/dxixprojects/docs/we_are_no_longer_beings_booklet_embedded

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Beyond the Real

Works by Sasha Alexandra and Marina Kassianidou
Rule Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
February 18 - April 29, 2023
Opening: February 18, 5:00 - 7:00 pm; Artist walkthrough at 5:30 pm
Opening hours: Wed - Sat 11:00 am - 5:00 pm and by appointment

https://rulegallery.com/exhibition/beyond-the-real/

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MICROLOGIES

Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
January 18 - July 2, 2023
Opening reception: February 23, 5:00 - 7:00 pm (curator walkthrough at 5:00 pm)

Curated by Aitor Lajarin-Encina (DXIX Projects)

Francisco Alarcon, Erik Benjamins, Bettina Buck, Andreas Bunte, Katarina Burin, Joshua Callahan, Pablo Capitán del Río, Sunah Choi, Ginny Cook, James Dean, Mark Dineen, Ahu Dural, Linda Franke, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Leon Eixenberger, Victor Esther, Pedro Eurrutia, Bradney Evans, Javier Fresneda, Kim Garcia, Brendan Getz, Molly Getz, Robert Gfader, Del Harrow, Sohin Hwang, Ismael Iglesias, Barry McGregor Johnston, Marina Kassianidou, Lev Khesin, Lucy Kim, Alice Könitz, Fermín Jimenez Landa, Won Ju Lim, Antonia Low, Elana Mann, Daniel Mendel-Black, Regina de Miguel, Dominic Miller, Noha Mokhtar, Fermín Moreno, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Sally Osborn, Kirsten Palz, Stephen G. Rhodes, Matt Saunders, Kim Schoen, Nina Schuiki, Maya Schweizer, Joe Sola, Jaro Straub, Pauline Shongov, Tommy Støckel, Tim Tetzner, Jan Tumlir, Derrick Velasquez , Gabriel Vormstein, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Michael Zahn

MICROLOGIES is a traveling, growing, group exhibition that revolves around the aesthetics of small-scale, micro materiality poetics and minimum gesture politics. The eclectic group of contemporary artists in this exhibition have been invited to take the challenge of creating a very small but nevertheless significant piece, which is no bigger than 2 1/4 inches (5.7 cm) on each side, the exact measurements of a standard Rubik’s Cube. The cube is used here as a measurement unit since it serves as an analogy of a small object that allows, through a relational game, for playful reconsiderations of spatial relationships.

https://artmuseum.colostate.edu/events/micrologies/

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2022

Work on display

House of Representatives (Parliament), Nicosia, Cyprus
September 2022 - ongoing

Curated by Marina Christodoulidou

Faulty Samples I is on view at the House of Representatives, along with works by other Cypriot artists. All works on display belong to the Cyprus National Gallery collection.

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Urban Reflections: Landscape Trends

Limassol Municipal Social Housing Buildings, Limassol, Cyprus
October 21 - November 6, 2022
Opening hours: Daily 4:00 - 8:00 pm

Curated by Maria Lianou and Alexandros Christofinis

Andreas Antoniou, Peter Eramian, Panayiotis Doukanaris, Marina Kassianidou, Elena Kotasvili & Alexis Vayanos, Michalis Korais, Theo-Mass Lexileictous, Loizos Olympios, Alexandros Tzannis, Leontios Toumpouris, Michalis Papamichael, Maro Fasouli, Efi Haliori

What does it mean to inhabit a landscape? Not just to perceive it—from afar?—but to be in it, to participate in the formation of its character—and to have it participate in the formation of yours—while taking into account its existing features?
Excerpt from a text by Marina Kassianidou

https://www.urbanreflections.org/
https://www.instagram.com/lemesosmetatinanaptixiti/
https://limassolartwalks.com/

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Artist Talk and Q & A

east window SOUTH / NoBo Art Center
Boulder, Colorado, USA
September 14, 2022, 5:00 - 7:30 pm

5:00 - 6:00 pm
Viewing of exhibition geometric frustrations at east window SOUTH
4949 Broadway
Unit 102-C
Boulder, CO 80304

6:00 - 7:00 pm
Artist talk and Q & A
NoBo Art Center (one minute walk from gallery)
4929 Broadway (behind WAPO’s)
Boulder, CO 80304

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Bloom

Galerie Robertson Arès, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
September 9 - October 1, 2022
Opening: September 9, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Curated by Derrick Velasquez

Sierra Montoya Barela, Megan Gafford, Jon Geiger, Marina Kassianidou, Jessica Langley, Matt Tripodi, Ashley Eliza Williams, Alexander Richard Wilson

https://galerierobertsonares.com/show/galerie-robertson-ares-bloom-curated-by-derrick-velasquez
https://galerierobertsonares.com/artist/artistes-invites-bloom

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geometric frustrations

east window SOUTH, Boulder, Colorado, USA
August 25 - October 28, 2022
Opening: August 25, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Opening hours: By appointment (contact the gallery)

east window SOUTH and NEST Studio for the Arts present a solo exhibition by Boulder- and Limassol-based artist Marina Kassianidou, with accompanying texts by Erin Espelie and Oswaldo Emiddio Vasquez Hadjilyra.

The exhibition revolves around a series of drawings on sheets of found log-log graph paper printed by the U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey Water Resources Division. The graph paper was likely used to record stream discharge data over a long period of time through a flow-duration curve. After rescuing the paper from the trash, Kassianidou crumples individual sheets, partially unfolds them, and then meticulously draws over every resulting mark.

According to applied physics research, creases form on crumpled paper in specific mathematical patterns, which allows the material to relieve any stress caused by the deformation.* The creases also protect the material from further damage; they enable the paper to retain its material integrity while adjusting to the modified space allotted to it through the reshaping.

The process of crumpling paper parallels the folding of Earth’s crust due to compression. When the constantly moving tectonic plates in the crust are pushed towards one another, the crust might bow upwards or downwards, causing the formation of mountains, volcanos, ocean trenches, or faults. The exact behavior depends on the geologic makeup of that section of crust.

The crumpled paper in Kassianidou’s work hovers between surface, ground, recording tool, draft, drawing, map, material, refuse, and site. The work enacts a series of representations, translations, and material connections, creating networks from the smallest to the largest movements that frame our surroundings. The act of crumpling paper—usually indicating its destiny as trash—and recording its creases becomes a meditation on how we attempt to organize and represent space and place, how we make sense of our relationship to both, and what the implications of our corresponding choices each time might be.

The exhibition forms part of the Environmental Futures initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder with funding and support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and NEST Studio for the Arts.

Part of the work for the exhibition was completed during an artist residency at The Studios at MASS MoCA, funded through a TRANSIT grant from the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture.

* Jovana Andrejevic, Lisa M. Lee, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, and Chris H. Rycroft, “A Model for the Fragmentation Kinetics of Crumpled Thin Sheets,” Nature Communications 12 (March 2021).

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Volumes

Works by Marina Kassianidou and Maia Ruth Lee
Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, Colorado, USA
August 19 - September 25, 2022
Opening: August 19, 8:00 pm
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 4:00 pm - 11:00 pm & by appointment

Lane Meyer Projects is proud to present Volumes, a two-person exhibition by Colorado-based artists Marina Kassianidou (Boulder, CO) and Maia Ruth Lee (Salida, CO). The body’s relationship to language is the focus for works in the exhibition, with each artist interpreting the subtleties of marks, impermanence, and poetics stemming from the ever evolving concept of language.

Originally from Limassol, Cyprus, Marina Kassianidou’s practice is centered around mark and surface. In A Partial History III, she began with a well worn school book handed down by her Cypriot grandmother. Humble and tattered, partially disintegrated pages touched by her ancestors’ fingers bare the traces of use, and in those marks a unique physical language emerges. From her set of two inherited school books, Kassianidou has meticulously traced the silhouette of each worn page in what serves as a documentation between the lines; absent of written language, folds, creases, tears, stains, discolorations, and wormholes contain their own content.

Maia Ruth Lee’s artistic practice has long considered modes of language and its usage. Lee was born in South Korea, raised in Nepal, and spent nearly a decade in New York City before relocating to the Front Range - communication’s pitfalls and potential are well known to Lee. In her sculptural banner-like work included in the exhibition, silhouettes taken from bandages mark the surface of a hanging scroll. This ribbon-like ink painting cuts through the gallery, featuring abstracted silhouettes of bandages that serve as lexicon with a natural corollary to the body. Used when the body is damaged, bandages speak to the fragility of corporeality and its need for nurture.

The visceral experience of language enjoys new volumes in Volumes, as Kassianidou and Lee depart and converge around the universality of language and mark-making. In the cataloging of vintage school books and ink impressions taken from bandages, language’s form and flexibility is explored, offering nuanced meaning to the term body language.

Written by Marsha Mack

https://www.lanemeyerprojects.com/volumes-marina-kassianidou-maia-ruth-lee

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MICROLOGIES III

Irenic Projects, Pasadena, California, USA
July 8 - July 31, 2022
Opening: July 8, 2022, 6:00 pm, with music by DJ Jan Tumlir (Micromusic)

A collaboration between Scharaun, Berlin, and DXIX, Los Angeles. Part of B-LA Connect, an initiative that connects Berlin and Los Angeles artist-run spaces.

“From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.”
― Richard Siken

“To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

MICROLOGIES is an exhibition project founded by Aitor Lajarin of DXIX Projects L.A. which was first shown at Scharaun, Berlin, at the B-LA connect project space Festival and at ARTRCC Harvard University, Boston, in 2019. The aim is to expand the scope of the exhibition for the updated version in 2022 at Irenic Projects in Pasadena alongside the B-LA connect project space Festival.

MICROLOGIES is a creative research project that is currently producing a series of group exhibitions, presentations, pedagogical activities and writings that revolve around the aesthetics of small-scale, micro materiality poetics and minimum gesture politics. This project proposes to explore the potential of minimum events and small gestures to open up spaces of philosophical discernment in relation to larger scale structures, patterns, events and paradigms.

With: Francisco Alarcon, Erik Benjamins, Bettina Buck, Andreas Bunte, Katarina Burin, Joshua Callahan, Pablo Capitán del Río, Sunah Choi, Ginny Cook, James Dean, Mark Dineen, Ahu Dural, Ulrike Flaig, Linda Franke, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Leon Eixenberger, Victor Esther, Pedro Eurrutia, Bradney Evans, Javier Fresneda, Kim Garcia, Brendan Getz, Molly Getz, Robert Gfader, Del Harrow, Sohin Hwang, Ismael Iglesias, Barry Johnston, Marina Kassianidou, Lev Khesin, Lucy Kim, Alice Könitz, Aitor Lajarin, Fermín Jimenez Landa, Won Ju Lim, Antonia Low, Euan Macdonald, Elana Mann, Daniel Mendel-Black, Regina de Miguel, Dominic Miller, Noha Mokhtar, Fermín Moreno, Dave Muller, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Sally Osborn, Kirsten Palz, Stephen G. Rhodes, Matt Saunders, Kim Schoen, Nina Schuiki, Maya Schweizer, Joe Sola, Jaro Straub, Pauline Shongov, Tommy Støckel, Tim Tetzner, Jan Tumlir, Derrick Velasquez , Gabriel Vormstein, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Michael Zahn

Address: Irenic Projects at Missiongathering Church, 789 N. Altadena Drive, Pasadena CA 91107

Open by appointment at ‭310 528 2617‬ or exilechild@gmail.com

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2nd Cyprus Poster Triennial

State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL, Nicosia, Cyprus
June 24 - October 8, 2022

Curated by Evripides Zantides, Omiros Panayides, and Savvas Xinaris.

Co-organized by the Deputy Ministry of Culture - Cultural Services and the Semiotics and Visual Communication Lab, Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology.

https://www.moca.org.cy/
https://www.facebook.com/SPELStateGallery/
https://cpt.com.cy/

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Residency

The Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program
MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
May 11 - June 7, 2022

Participating artists: Eun Young Cho, Monika Plioplyte, Katherine Patterson, Johanna Robinson, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, Rhiannon Inman-Simpson, Marina Kassianidou, Kim Rose Salac, Patricia Brace, Shelley Chamberlin, Pantea Karimi

My participation in the residency is funded by a TRANSIT Grant, awarded by the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Open Studios, June 2, 5-7 pm (ET)

https://www.assetsforartists.org/studios-at-mass-moca

https://www.assetsforartists.org/blog/2022/welcome-may-2022-artists

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Residency

Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency
Conversations in Practice
February 14 - March 12, 2022

Participating artists: Alivia Zivich (faculty mentor), Marina Kassianidou, A. Morgan McKendry, Jill Paz, Nirmal Raja, Kaitlin Santoro, Jordan Segal, Isabella Whitfield

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2021

Artist Lecture

Online Artist Lecture
November 17, 2021, 12 pm CT

Organized by University of Nebraska Omaha Department of Art and Art History.

Link to recorded lecture coming soon.

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Contemporary Art from Cyprus

Contributed a chapter, “Peripheral Visions: The ‘Peripheral’ Position as Productive of Artistic Process,” to Contemporary Art from Cyprus: Politics, Identities, and Cultures across Borders, edited by Elena Stylianou, Evanthia Tselika, and Gabriel Koureas, published by Bloomsbury.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-art-from-cyprus-9781350198654/

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Hambidge Art Auction

Group exhibition and online auction
Adrenaline, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
October 11 - 23, 2021

Participating in the 2021 Hambidge Art Auction and group exhibition.

Adrenaline
565 Main St NE, Unit 200
Atlanta, GA 30324

https://www.hambidge.org/the-auction

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intermission museum of art + stand4 gallery

Directors Discussion
Online
Saturday, October 02, 2021, 11:00 AM ET

Stand4Gallery Founder and Artistic Director, Jeannine Bardo, will host IMA Founding Directors and Curators, Rose van Mierlo and John Ros, via Zoom for a discussion about IMA, collaborations and institutional critique. Zoom registration required.

https://stand4gallery.org/exhibition/intermission-museum-of-art-archive-volume-i/

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Abstract Drawing: Between Thought and Action

Hybrid Panel
University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum and Online
Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 5:00 PM MT

Moderated by Jarett Earnest

Artists: Marina Kassianidou, linn meyers, Jason Stopa and Tim Whiten

In connection with the museum’s exhibition Tim Whiten: Tools of Conveyance, join us for a hybrid panel event, Abstract drawing, between thought and action. Our moderator and panel artists will be virtual. Guests have the option of attending in person at the museum or via Zoom at 5 p.m. For those joining us in person, you are invited to arrive at 4:30 for a conversational tour of the exhibition by curator Sandra Q. Firmin just before the panel event.

Registration is required for the virtual option.

https://www.colorado.edu/cuartmuseum/programs-virtual-activities/hybrid-panel-event-abstract-drawing-between-thought-and-action-virtual

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intermission museum of art | archive: volume i

Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 10 - October 23, 2021
Opening: September 10, 2021, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

After an ambitious and successful first year of initiating and archiving digital collaborations, Intermission Museum of Art (IMA) is pleased to partner with Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, to mount a physical manifestation of the archive. IMA's archived volume i exhibitions from June 2020 through June 2021 will be included, featuring collaborations from:

Jodi Hays + Ayanah Moor | Lindiwe Matshikiza + Flora Parrott | Lynn Silverman + Jason Sloan | Mira Dayal + Marina Kassianidou | Lauren K. Alleyne + Matthew Fischer | Mike Cloud + Nyeema Morgan | Aurora de Armendi + Jessica del Vecchio | Kate Casanova + Sarah Faye McPherson | Jaimini Patel + Carli Toliver | Ana Čavić + Sally Morfill | Rose van Mierlo + John Ros

This exhibition represents a new collaboration between Stand4 Gallery and IMA whereby hosting the digital archive, Stand4 Gallery becomes IMA and vice versa. This symbiotic relationship enhances each counterpart while implementing an additional layer of collaboration. As a fictional museum and performative project, IMA challenges the status quo on the social role of museums by engaging with its fictional structures of operation. It explores the tangible effects fictionality has in the social and economic world and suggests alternative models of exhibiting while sparking meaningful conversations. Its online form enables IMA to exist in several places at once and reach multiple audiences. It is neither real nor unreal, but can be read as a critical text. Its second form is performative: IMA is both artwork and museum. It can only exist through the hospitality of others.

https://stand4gallery.org/exhibition/intermission-museum-of-art-archive-volume-i/
https://intermissionmuseum.org/volume-i/ima-and-stand4/

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THREADS - Migration Connects Us All / HILOS - La Migración Nos Conecta a Todos

BRDG Project, Denver, Colorado, USA
August 6 - 28, 2021
Preview: August 6, 2021, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Curated by Esther Hernandez, Associate Director, PlatteForum, and Eriko Tsogo, Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Manager

A group exhibition reflecting the multiverse notion of hope and the resilient narratives of the immigrant identity. The exhibition will showcase visual, multi-media and performative works from a cohort of 30 emerging immigrant and established professional artists who participated in PlatteForum’s partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts and their nation-wide Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.

Featuring work by Ayse Kubra OZ, Marina Kassianidou, (Onecho) aka Juan Usubillaga, Laura Soto, Christine Nguyen, Cipriano Ortega, Alex Branch, Michael Gadlin, Lio Bumbakini, Tsogo Mijid, Cal Duran, Adrian Raya, Katie Taft, Talia Johns, Raksha Vasudevan, David Mejia, Rosario Weston, Monica Marquez Gatica, Junetae TeeJay Hwang, Kate Speer and George Perez

This program was made possible with the support of Arts in Society, Rose Community Foundation, SCFD Denver and Adams Counties, and the Imagine 2020 Fund.

https://platteforum.org/events/threads-migration-connects-us-all-hilos-la-migracin-nos-conecta-a-todos

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gathering x discourse 2

Panel
Phytorio, 2 Nehru Street, Nicosia, Cyprus
Friday, July 23, 2021, 7:00 PM CY

The next public discussion of Phytorio Residency 2021 gathering x discourse, curated by Argyro Nicolaou, will take place on Friday 23 July at 7:00 pm at the Phytorio garden.

This discussion will focus on the concepts of the margin and the periphery. We will center contemporary and historical practices that are marginalized by dominant sociopolitical and cultural discourses, including hegemonic narratives and aesthetic forms. How do contemporary artists respond to the margin or periphery in their practice?

This session will feature theater director and scholar Magdalena Zira and artist and writer Marina Kassianidou.

Through the prism of the ongoing Women Walk Home project (SEASON: Women) and the text “Peripheral Visions: The ‘Peripheral’ Position as Productive of Artistic Process” (Marina Kassianidou, in Contemporary Art from Cyprus, eds. Elena Stylianou, Evanthia Tselika, Gabriel Koureas) we will also discuss the margin/periphery as a productive artistic positionality and a lived reality that Cypriot artists—based in Cyprus and abroad—must negotiate.

This year’s residency program at the Visual Artists and Art Theorists Association – Phytorio aims to open up space for public dialogue around issues concerning Cypriot history and art, through the gathering x discourse project proposed by writer and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou.

We invite everyone interested in the intersection of art, society, and politics in Cyprus to attend.

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Cladogram

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
July 13 - September 19, 2021
Preview: July 11, 2021

Curated by Yasmeen Siddiqui

A cladogram is a branching diagram that shows relationships among different species and their history of evolution. Similarly, this exhibition will include work that engages with personal or family history, explores the ways in which historical objects and ideas are organized, categorized, and displayed, or that challenges the dominant narrative of history and art history. Reimagining the concept of a cladogram, and curated with an eye to presenting a wide range of approaches and treatments, the works offer a rich mix of artistic media—drawing, installation, mixed media, painting, performance, photography, prints, sculpture, sound and video.

http://www.katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/

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NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Denver

Selected as a participating artist in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Denver. Program organized in partnership with PlatteForum.

https://platteforum.org/blog/2020/12/09/platteforum-announces-immigrant-artist-mentoring-programdenver-in-partnership-with-new-york-foundation-for-the-arts

https://www.nyfa.org/professional-development/immigrant-artist-program-iap/

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Collaborative works

Two collaborative works made with Melanie Yazzie are included in her exhibition Finding Center in Home.

Melanie Yazzie
Finding Center in Home
The Collective Community Arts Center, Lafayette, Colorado, USA
May 06 - June 27, 2021

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a trembling line

A project by Mira Dayal and Marina Kassianidou
intermission museum of art, online/New York, New York, USA
March 1-31, 2021

a trembling line takes the form of a series of linked pages of visual materials that ask for a viewer’s heightened
attention to the margin, the liminal, and the off-screen in order to progress through the ensuing pages. Somewhere between an adventure and an examination, the project invites the computer user into formal and conceptual play with what it means to perceive, read, and access.

Dayal’s and Kassianidou’s practices converge in a trembling line — a quiver, a hair, a crack, a speck of dust, a friction ridge — whose movement is barely perceptible. Slight as it may be, this line has might: it recalibrates our vision. Squint, get closer, wipe the screen. What kind of labor does subtlety engender? When is nuance valuable in, and valued by, society?

[Excerpt from exhibition text]

https://intermissionmuseum.org/volume-i/atremblingline/

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Book Arts and Digitization: A Zoom Conversation with Marina Kassianidou and Bill Endres

Online Panel
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST/ Zoom  

Register for this virtual event at http://art.okstate.edu/gardiner-gallery/gardiner-events  

https://art.okstate.edu/gardiner-gallery/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/623-artist-books-and-altered-books-exhibition

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Conversation Pieces, TSA_PDF 018

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, New York, USA
February 1 - 28, 2021

Curated by Rose Van Mierlo and Brooke Tomiello

Featuring work by John Ros & Stephanie Williams, David Mramor & Greg Potter, Marina Kassianidou & Ian Weaver, Anna Tsouhlarakis & Nekisha Durret.

https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/tagged/conversationpieces

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Artifacts at the Start of the Decade

Gardiner Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
January 19 - February 19, 2021

An exhibition of artists’ books with work by Julia Bradshaw, Julie Chen, Maureen Cummins, Daniel Essig, Helga Fassonaki, James Hengel, Marina Kassianidou, Karen Kunc, Ryan Pierce, Zeinab Saab, Emily Shanahan, and Bonnie Stahlecker.

https://art.okstate.edu/gardiner-gallery/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/623-artist-books-and-altered-books-exhibition

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2020

A Companion to Contemporary Drawing

Contributed a chapter, “Works on/and/with Paper: Approaching Drawing as Responsive Marking,” to A Companion To Contemporary Drawing, edited by Kelly Chorpening and Rebecca Fortnum, published by Wiley Blackwell. Part of the series Blackwell Companions to Art History.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Drawing-p-9781119194545

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Yours Faithfully, A Collective Library Project by Phytorio

Phytorio, Nicosia, Cyprus
December 11 - 12, 2020

Curated by Maria Loizidou and Anastasia Mina

Artists: Alexandra Pambouka, Anastasia Mina, Andreas Mallouris, Anna Maria Charalambous, Antis Ioannides, Christos Kyriakides, Constantinos Taliotis, Demetra Kallitsi, Efi Spyrou, Eirene Constantinou, Elena Kouma, Elina Ioannou, Kakia Catselli, Katerina Attalidou, Kyriaki Costa, Lara Benjamin, Lefteris Tapas, Leontios Toumpouris, Loizos Olympios, Maria Lianou, Maria Loizidou, Maria Papacharalambous, Marina Christodoulidou, Marina Kassianidou, Mustafa Hulusi, Natalie Yiaxi, Nayia Savva, Nikos Kouroussis, Othonas Charalambous, Peter Eramian, Phanos Kyriakou, Polys Peslikas, Rebecca Efstathiou, Socratis Socratous, Stellios Kalinikou, Victoria Leonidou, Yorgos Petrou

https://phytorio.org/yours-faithfully

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Checking In

RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
December 1, 2020 - January 29, 2021

Organized by Laura Shill and Derrick Velasquez

Artists: Carol Bivins, Leslie D. Boyd, Megan Bray, Mindy Bray, Kristina Davies, Madison DeYoung & Connor Deniston, A. Miriam Green, Emma Hardy, Kevin Hoth, Addie Kae, Marina Kassianidou, Shamai Mading, Heidi Mason, Sydney Lee, Sidney Masuga, Elizabeth Morisette, Alex Paozols, Matthew Pevear, Markus Puskar, Elisabeth Relin, Emily Roan, Martha Russo, Heather Schulte, Kelley Shei, Ben Siekierski, Anna & Tina Suszynski, Emilie Trice, Beth Van De Water, Genevieve Waller, Rosario Weston, Kate Wilker

https://www.redlineart.org/checking-in-overview

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Mother Tongue, The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Here, Together!

Online exhibition as part of The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020
October 16 - December 18, 2020

Curated by Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Katya Grokhovsky 

Artists: Ferguson Amo, Mahsa Biglow, Sera Boeno, Carolina Casusol, Cecile Chong, Furen Dai, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Priscilla Dobler Dzul, Matilda Forsberg, Nina Ghanbarzadeh (Afkhamian), Yikui (Coy) Gu, Luma Jasim, Tiri Kananuruk, Marina Kassianidou, Cecilia Kim, Marina Leybishkis, Stefana McClure, Rodrigo Moreira, Renana Neuman, Sari Nordman, Kasia Ozga, Dafna Rehavia, Katreen Sorokina, Tereza Swanda, Johanna Strobel, Hui-Ying Tsai, Tansy Xiao, Haksul Lee & Natsuki Takauji, Tao Wei

Performance projects: Kevin Quiles Bonilla, Marcela Casals, Salomé Egas, Bianca Falco, Georgia Lale, Silkworm Pupas (Jiaoyang Li & JinJin Xu), Jorge Rojas, María Verónica San Martín

https://virtual2020.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com/mother-tongue
https://virtual2020.theimmigrantartistbiennial.com/

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WADS irl

Pop-up exhibition as part of Ars Electronica 2020
RISE Makerspace, Old Municipal Market Square, Nicosia, Cyprus
October 15 - 16, 2020

Curated by Demetris Shammas, Emiddio Vasquez, Constantinos Miltiadis, Myrto Aristidou

Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou, Panagiotis Mina, Raissa Angeli, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Kleanthis Rousos, Marina Ashioti, Irini Khenkin, Lina Protopapa, Nico Stephou, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Stelios Ilchouk, Faysal Mroueh, Marina Kassianidou, Elena Savvidou, Pandelis Diamantides, Despina Rangou, Maria Andreou, Ibrahim Ince, Peter Eramian, Anastasia Dolitsay, Doros Polydorou

A VR exhibition representing RISE Up Cyprus (Research and Innovation Center on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies) in Ars Electronica 2020.

WADS: Water Air Dirt Sun. The elements a garden needs.
WADS: A virtual garden designed to reflect and to reflect on the technique of grafting.
The works can be found at: https://hubs.mozilla.com/UbTzCec/wads-garden
Please use Firefox on a computer for best results.

https://www.instagram.com/wads.garden/

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Hambidge Art Auction

Online Auction
October 9 - 24, 2020

Participating in the 2020 Hambidge Art Auction.

https://www.hambidge.org/the-auction

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Artist Talk

Online Artist Talk
September 24, 2020

Participating in an artist talk with curator Sarah Odens and artist Rebecca Morgan. Organized by Auburn University’s Department of Art and Art History as part of the exhibition Please Do Not Touch: Art from the Pandemic, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Alabama, USA.

https://www.facebook.com/au.art.arthistory/videos/788466818364207

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WADS

Online exhibition as part of Ars Electronica 2020
September 9 - 13, 2020

Curated by Demetris Shammas, Emiddio Vasquez, Constantinos Miltiadis, Myrto Aristidou

Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou, Panagiotis Mina, Raissa Angeli, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Kleanthis Rousos, Marina Ashioti, Irini Khenkin, Lina Protopapa, Nico Stephou, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Stelios Ilchouk, Faysal Mroueh, Marina Kassianidou, Elena Savvidou, Pandelis Diamantides, Despina Rangou, Maria Andreou, Ibrahim Ince, Peter Eramian, Anastasia Dolitsay, Doros Polydorou

An online exhibition representing RISE Up Cyprus (Research and Innovation Center on Interactive Media, Smart System and Emerging Technologies) in Ars Electronica 2020.

WADS: Water Air Dirt Sun. The elements a garden needs.
WADS: A virtual garden designed to reflect and to reflect on the technique of grafting.
The works can be found at: https://hubs.mozilla.com/UbTzCec/wads-garden
Please use Firefox on a computer for best results.

https://www.instagram.com/wads.garden/

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Please Do Not Touch: Art from the Pandemic

Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Alabama, USA
August 31 - October 2, 2020

Curated by Sarah Odens, artist, curator, and Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Exhibitions and Lectures at Auburn University

Teresa Dunn, Kay S. Healy, Heidi Hogden, Marina Kassianidou, Rebecca Morgan, Areca Roe, Lisa Walcott

https://cla.auburn.edu/art/galleries/exhibitions/2020-21-exhibitions/please-do-not-touch-art-from-the-pandemic/

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Con Cariño, Tenderly

Axis Gallery, Sacramento, California, USA
August 8 - 29, 2020

Works selected by Marcela Pardo Ariza, artist and curator.

Zachary-Jordan Angeles, Cody Arnall, Jenny Balisle, David Bartlett, Stephanie Baugh, Wesley Bell-Miller, Elizabeth Bennett, Jennifer Buehner-Varley, Deziree Dizon, Carmel Dor, Daniel Georges, Hasler Gomez, Cheryl L. Guerrero, Wesley Haack, Pamela Hartvig, William Ishmael, jim jacobs, Marina Kassianidou, Stela Mandel, Marianne McCraney, Robert Nunez, Gwendolyn Pryor, Lauren Rayburn, Lauren A. Toomer, G. E. Vogt, Elise Weber, Nathan Wong, Seongmin Yoo

http://axisgallery.org/home/exhibitions/axis-15th-national-juried-exhibition-juror-marcela-pardo-ariza/

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Rocky Mountain Biennial

Museum of Art Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
July 31 - September 20, 2020
Preview: July 30, 2020

Works selected by Leah Ollman, art writer and critic for the Los Angeles Times and Art in America.

Ashley Andersen, Kelly Austin-Rolo, Trent Davis Bailey, Joan Baron + Gloria Martinez-Granados, Susan Beiner, Heather Bentz, Barbara Bogart, Wendy Bredehoft, Jem Brock, Alexandra Buxbaum, Curt Carpenter, Mark Cesark, Sharon Chung, Anne Clark, Amy Guion Clay, Joe Coca, Nicole Cochary, Susan Cooper, Kate Dardine, Jennifer Davey, Jennifer Day, Jane Waggoner Deschner, Leah Diament, Edie Dillon, Jenny Dowd, Erin Dvorak, Richard Eisen, Kim Ferrer, Marcus Fingerlin, Charis Fleshner, Elizabeth Groth, Blanche Guernsey, Dave Hanson, Kathryn Hart, Stephanie Hilvitz, Kevin Hoth, Peter Illig, Jim Jacobs, James Johnson, Kirsten Kainz, Marina Kassianidou, Beth Krensky, Bonnie Lebesch, Jade Lowder, Kumiko S. McKee, Sarah McKenzie, Grace Morris, Kimberly Noel, Chris Sedgwick, Mary Sloane, Ronda Stone, Elizabeth Stone, Whitney Toutenhoofd, Isaac Trujillo, Rhonda Urdang, David van Buskirk, Kate Walker, Hao Zhang

https://moafc.org/exhibitions/

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D-S | Online project

Participating in the project D-S with a commissioned text. Project initiated by Leontios Toumpouris and the Cultural Section of the Cyprus High Commission in the UK.

https://www.data-saturated.com/

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To Make Radical Poetry from Home

Collage included in zine and catalogue To Make Radical Poetry from Home, published by The Athens Zine Bibliotheque.

https://issuu.com/theathenszinebibliotheque/stacks/e278e7c562b64ba5b76d8d312321a29f

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As Inside, So Outside

Curated by Kate Mothes, Curator/Founder, Young Space, and David B. Smith, Founder/Director, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
Young Space Platform
February 3-23, 2020
Preview begins: February 1

Amy Winstanley, Anatole De Benedictis, Anders Lindseth, Bram Keast, Brian Rattiner, Eryn Lougheed, Igor Omulecki, Ingrid Toogood, Karen Osp Palsdottir, Linnea Jensen, Marina Kassianidou, Michael Kondel, Mikey Yates, Nick Fagan, Oriele Steiner, Patti Oleon, Peter Fagundo, Pol Morton, Rithika Pandey, Rushern Baker IV, Sam Dienst, Sooim Jeong, Tessa Greene O’Brien, Will Sears

https://yngspc.com/exhibitions/2020/01/as-inside-so-outside/

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Mundane: The Ordinary Everyday

Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
January 24-February 21, 2020
Preview: January 23, 7 pm

There is something powerful about finding inspiration and meaning in the ordinary everyday things and spaces around us. For the artist it represents a Zen-like independence from assumed ideals, and a dexterity of mind and perception that, when practiced and shared through visual art, transfers the potent sense of appreciation to the unsuspecting viewer, like a sage gifting illumination of a higher nature.

Presenting works by: Rob Anderson, Malcolm Christhilf, Susan Cohen, Ryan Durrant, Jason Ferguson, Karen Hillier, Joshua Huyser, Marina Kassianidou, Dale Knaak, Liz Koerner, John Lee, Sean Lyman, Rose Mansel-Pleydell, Maddie Miller, Cody Williams, Stephen Wright

http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule.html

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