EMI AVORA
(1978 - )
Born in Greece; Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2002 Royal Academy of Arts Schools: Post-graduate Diploma in Fine Arts
2001 Institute of Education, University of London: PGCE Art & Design
1999 Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University: BA Fine Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 A thousand mirrors, The Apartment, Athens (upcoming)
2006 In the ruins, Contemporary Art Projects, London
On the verge, Amy Jo Spitalier, London
1998 Odyssey, Oxford University Press Bookshop, Oxford
Expeditions, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Emi Avora / Julia Kunin: Against Nature, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Defining the Contemporary – the Whitechapel Auction, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Present in the Past, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
Celeste Art Prize 2006 Finalists’ Exhibition, London
2005
Art Futures 2005, Bloomberg Space, London
The Wonderful Fund Collection, Le Musee de Marrakech, Marrakech
Introductions, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Foster Art Collection Show, Foster Art Gallery, London
London Now: Are you in Love Yet?, Arts Centre, St. Petersburg, Florida
2004
BOC Emerging Artist Award Finalists 2004, Space, The Triangle, London
Short stories about Glamour, Hiscox art projects, London
Silent reading, Seven Seven gallery, London
Schwnengesang, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
Draft, Nairs Culture centre, Scuol, Switzerland
BOC prize shortlist show, BOC, Surrey
Summer pursuits, STORE gallery, London
East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Art Futures, CAS, London
Faith, Transition gallery, London; CAS, Osaka, Japan
Then 6…developments, Phoenix gallery, Brighton
2003
Reduced, Century gallery featuring the Centre of Attention, London
Minatures, Sarah Myerscouch gallery, London
Lexmark European prize exhibition, London
Aqcuaesale, Initinere, Salento, Italy
Arty-tecture, Transition Gallery, London
Artfutures 2003, CAS, London
Oriel Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, March
The last day I spent on earth, Project Room, Glasgow, February
2002
6Rooms2002, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, November
Art prize, Centre of Attention Gallery, London, October
DLA Art Award 2002, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, October
RA Degree show, Royal Academy Schools, June
Kiss my Art, Gallery M, London, December
2001
Premiums show, Royal Academy - Sackler Gallery, London
2000
Art Hunting, Royal College of Art, London
How we built the world, Liverpool
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
The New York Sun, “Art Calendar,” May 17, 2007
Celeste Art Prize, catalogue, 2006
The Wonderful Fund, exhibition catalogue, 2005
Vogue Hellas, Athens, November 2005
The New Yorker, "'Introductions,'" September 19, 2005
The New York Times, Ken Johnson, "Introductions," August 15, 2005
Art’s Modern London Bridges , sptimes (Florida), January 2005
Short Stories About Glamour, exhibition catalogue, London, 2004
Go East, Young Man, The Observer, London, June 2004
Initinere, exhibition catalogue, Italy, 2004
Tema Celeste 100, Italy, 2003
Arty Magazine, London, 2003
La Repubblica, Italy, July 2003
Tower Place Collection Catalogue: A Selection of Art at Tower Place, London, 2003
Mostyn open 13, exhibition catalogue, Wales, 2003
Tema Celeste 95, January 2003
6rooms, exhibition catalogue, Kappatos gallery
Vima, Athens, November 2002
DLA Art Award catalogue, 2002
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art Society, London
Ernst & Young Collection, New York
Hiscox Collection, London
Marsh Collection, London
Wonderful Fund Collection
Slade Collection, London
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant, Canada, 2005
Shortlisted for BOC emerging artist award , 2004
Nairs Foundation art residency, Switzerland , 2004
The Centre of attention prize, London, 2002
The Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Award, London, 2002
Boise Foundation Travel Scholarship, New York, 2002
Royal Academy Schools Travel Scholarship, 2002
British Institution Fund Prize, London, 2001
Prize for obtaining a First Class Degree, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1999
Pirye Art Prize, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998
Socrates Travel Scholarship, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1998