LYDIA VENIERI, Artiste
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1964, Athens, Greece
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
Studied at the Ecole Nationale, Superieure des
Beaux Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
THE DOLPHIN CONSPIRACY,
Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris
2011
THE DOLPHIN CONSPIRACY,
Gallery Lola Nikolauo, Thessaloniki
SOS, Gallery Isabel Aninat,
Santiago de Chile
The Last Conflict, Stux Gallery, New York
2010 The Dolphin Conspiracy,
The Museum of the Bath of the
Winds, Athens.
Curated by Nadia Argyropoulou.
2009 Tomorrow - Phosphor Stars
in White Nights,
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, New York.
See No Evil, Art in Windows &
On The Third floor, The New York Public Library
Curated by Arezzo Moseni.
Artist dialog with Douglas F. Maxwell
2008 See No Evil, Terra
Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2007 War Games, Stux Gallery, New York
War Games, Gallery Lola
Nikalaou, Thessaloniki
2006 Forever After, Gallery 3, Athens
For Ever After, Luxe, New York
2005 For Ever After, Gallery
Quang, Paris
2004 Hibernation – Summer Olympics, Vernikos
Foundation, Kastella, Athenslivepage.apple.com
Sleeping Beauty Conscience,
Mid-Manhattan Library, New York
Hibernation, Luxe Gallery, New
York
2002 Hibernation, Gallerie Three, Athens
Hibernation, Gallerie Samy
Kinge, Paris
2001 Summer Celebration, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New
York
Beyond Being, Space Untitled, New York
2000 Beyond Being, Gallery
Three, Athens
Axiome Lambda, Gallery Samy Kinge, Paris
Beyond Being, Gallery Lola
Nikolaou, Thessaloniki, Greece
1999 Who is Nostalgic, Gallery
Vourkariani, Kia, Greece
1997 Two Strangers on the Moon, Galerie Selini, Athens
Cool Memories, Galerie lola
Nikolaou,Thessalonique, Greece
1995 Anima Mundis, Art Space
X, Athens
Manifeste Tellurique III, Gallerie Samy Kinge, Paris
1994 Manifeste Tellurique II,
Galerie lola Nikolaou, Thessalonique, Greece
Manifeste Tellurique I,
Gallerie d’Athens, Athens
1993 Anima Mundis, Banque Franco-Hellenique, Larissa
1990 Galerie Asbaek Pilon,
Copenhagan
Les Sistres du Temps, Ancien Musee Archeologique
Municipalite de Thessalonique
1988 FIAC, Galerie Samy Kinge,
Grande Palais, Paris
Les Figures De Lydia, Galerie Medoussa, Athenes
1986 Exposition personnelle,
Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
Paris Salon des Comparaisons, Grande Palais, Paris
Biennale de Jeunes Createurs
de la Mediterannee Europeenne, Thessalonique
1985 Salon de Mai, Grande
Palais, Paris
1983 Exposition a l'Ateilier de Yankel, Galeire
Bernanos, Paris
GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Sculptures in the Garden,
Botanical Gardens of Kefalonia, Kosmtatos Foundation,
curated by Liana Scourles.
Low Blow: And Other Species of
Confusion, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
2009 Tokyo 101 Contemporary,
Terra Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Scope 08, Terra Gallery, Miami
Scope 08, Terra Gallery,
London
Art Taipei, Terra Gallery,Taiwan
Korean International Art Fair,
Terra Gallery,Korea
Art Miami 08, Stux Gallery, Miami
Shanghai Art Fair, Terra
Gallery, China
Selection Art Moscow 2008, Terra Gallery, Moscow
From Head to Toe, Stux
Gallery, New York
NEXT Art Fair, Stux Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Macedonian Museum of
Contemporary Art
War Games, Gallery Quang, Show Off!, Paris
Scope Basel International Art
Fair, Stux Gallery,
Basel, Switzerland
Art Athina, Luxe Gallery,
Athens
Art Chicago, Luxe Gallery, Chicago
Art Miami, Stux Gallery,
Miami, FL
The Nightly News, curated by Kathleen Goncharov
and Stephan Stoyanov, Luxe,
New York
2006 War Games, Gallery Luxe, FIAC 2006, Paris
Tarot, Gallery Quang, FIAC
2006, Paris
The Last Conflict, Location One, New York
The Venieri Tarot, Gallery
Quang, Paris
Oh, You Beautiful Doll, curated by Douglas F.
Maxwell, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2005 ARTISSIMA 12, Luxe
Gallery, Turin
Platonic Exodus - FIAC 2005, Luxe Gallery, Paris
It’s Not About Sex, Luxe
Gallery, New York
Propos d’Europe IV, Foundation Hippocrene,
Agence de Rob Mallet- Stevens,
Paris
Art Athina, Luxe Gallery, Athens
Flash Art Fair, Luxe Gallery,
Milan
Diva, Luxe Gallery, New York
2004 Drawings, Luxe Gallery,
New York
FIAC 2004, Gallery Luxe, Paris
Art in General, Studio Visit,
New York
Tower of Symbols, Summer Olympics, Athens
2003 Alive In New York,
Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York
Centre Culturel Hellenique,
Paris
2002 Lydia Venieri, Atelier Mallet Stevens, Paris
FIAC 2002, VideoNovella,
Gallerie Samy Kinge,
Paris
Lydia Venieri, Centre Cultural
de Marrousi, Athens
2001 Storm On Moon, Selini Gallery, Athens
Greek Gods and Heroes, Centre
for Contemporary
Art in Dordrecht, Netherlands
2000 Greek Contemporary Art,
Glassing Gallery,
Munster, Germany
L’Oeil De La Galerie “Samy
Kinge”, Selini Galerie,
Athens
1999 A
Water Melon, Beneton, Cinema Phiri, Athens
Pret Art Porter, Dakis Ioannou
Fondation, Athens
Approaching Hellinism: Generation 80s & 90s,
Cultural Centre, Stockholm,
Sweden
Approaching Hellinism: Generation 80s & 90s,
Dazarma Museum, Falum, Sweden
Touch of Art in Ordinary
Objects, Selini Gallery,
Athens
Opening of Possibilities,
Hewlett Packard, Gazi,
Athens
Approaching Hellinism:
Generation 80s & 90s,
Vaiden Castle, Luxembourg
Art Quake, Benakiom Museum,
Athens
Approaching Hellinism: Generation 80s & 90s,
National Gallery of Greece,
Athens
1998 Triptych,
Downtown Gallery, Athens
Art & Technology Festival, Eleana Tounta Gallery,
Athens
Trash Art, Gazi, Athens
Croix Rouge, Athens
Flying Art, Municipality of
Athens, Varvakio
Square, Athens
1997 42nd Salon de Montrouge,
Paris
1996 Manifesta 1, Rotterdam
Pandora’s Box, Women/Beyond
Borders, California
and Basel, Switzerland
1995 International Video Art
Festival, Syracuse, Italy
FIAC 1995, “Fin”, Gallerie Samy Kinge, Paris
Lydia Venieri, Espace EIFFEL
Branely, Paris
1994 Premiere Rencontre Internationale de Sculpture,
Centre Culturel Europeen de
Delphes, Delphes,
Greece
1992 Ermata. Errance du Sacre,
Galerie Montenay, Paris
Spira I. Douze Createurs Grecs, Circulo de Bellas
Artes, Madrid
Metamorphoses du Moderne,
Pinacotheque
Nationale Athens
1990 Exposition personnelle,
Les Sistres du Temps,
Ancien Musee
Archeologique Municipalite de
Thessalonique,
Thessalonique, Greece
1989 Biennale Internat
ionale de Jeunes Createurs,
Musee Skirnion, Athens
Espirt et Corps, sous les
auspices du Ministere de la
Culture Greece, Zappion Athens
Celebration de la Terre,
organisation par Earth
Trust, Centre Culturel du Parc de la Liberte,
Athens
Humour et Revolution,
organisee a l’occation
de 200 ans de la Revolution Franciase, Biennale
de Cannes, Cannes et
Barcelone, Barcelona
1988 Image et Lettre, Galerie Niki Diana Marquardt,
Paris
Curated by Demosthenes Davetas.
Salon de Montrouge, Paris
Exposition de l’Institue
Francais d’Athenes, Salle
Costis Palamas, Athens
1987 Exposition Panhellenique,
Piree, Greece
Carte Blanche, a l’occation de l’anniversaire de 10
ans du Centre George Pompidou,
Galeries
Contemporaines, Paris
Paris Salon des Comparaisons,
Grande Palais, Paris
Biennale de Jeunes Createurs de la Mediterannee
Europeenne, Thessalonique,
Greece
1985 Salon de Mai, Grande Palais, Paris
1983 Exposition a l’Ateilier
de Yankel, Galeire Bernanos, Paris
IPhone
Art
Moonlight, 2
Animations and Movies
The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2011
Tomorrow, 2009
Epilepsy, 2005
Last Conflict, 2005
For Ever After, 2004
Sleeping Beauty Conscience,
2002
Martha, 1996
Egg, 1995
Books
Moonlight, Lydia Venieri, 2006
Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri,
2000
60 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi,
1995
IPhone
Art
Moonlight, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moonlight
Internet Art
Fin, http://www.venieri.com/fin/
Her Story,
http://www.venieri.com/herstory/
Apology,
http://www.venieri.com/apology/
Temple,
http://www.venieri.com/icon/
Tarot,
http://www.venieri.com/tarot/
Isis,
http://www.venieri.com/isis/
Theatre
Set design for Sarah & Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le
Pelletier, Sanford Meisner Theatre, New York.
Set design for Sarah &
Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le Pelletier, Storefront Theatre, Chicago.
Set design & costumes for The
Lady from Ancona, Theatre of Komotini, Greece.
Set design for Hellenic
Orchestra's tour of USSR, Soviet Union
Set design for "Inventaires"
de Philippe Minyana, directed by Elia Kountis, l'Institue Francais d'Athenes.
Set design for Daphnis & Cloe,
Octana Theatrical Group, Apothiki, Athens
Set
design & costumes for the Lady form Ancona, Anatolia of my Soul: 75 years since
the Asian Minor Catastrophy, Lykabetus Theatre, Athens Festival, 1997
The Five Seasons, Dance
theater Octana 1995
Awards
and Commissions
Medal for Sculpture, Academie Francaise de Paris, 2004
Tower of Symbols, Open Air
Sculpture, Central Athens, 2004
Wall of Symbols, Sculpture,
Atelier Mallet Stevens, Paris
Lydia on Broadway.com, CD-ROM
sponsored by Art Magazine and Hewlett Packard
“Infinity”, Collaboration with
artist Takis on the sculpture.
Medal for Sculpture, Academie
Francaise de Paris
Tower of Symbols, Open Air Sculpture, Central Athens,
2004
Wall of Symbols, Sculpture, Atelier Mallet Stevens,
Paris
Lydia on Broadway.com, CD-ROM sponsored by Art
Magazine and Hewlett Packard
"Infinity", Collaboration with
artist Takis on the sculpture.
Commande en plein air d'une
serie de sculputre Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, Athenes
Commande d'une serie de
sculptures pour l'Incitation a la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
Carte Blanche, a l'occation de
l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre George Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines,
Paris
Exhibition Catalogs
The Dolphin Conspiracy, Nadia Argyropoulou, 2010
No Evil, Beth Wilson, 2008
Oh You beautiful Doll, Douglas
F. Maxwell, 2006
For Ever After, Niko Daskalothanassi, 2005
Olympic 2004, Nelly Kyriazi,
2004
Alive in new York, Nadia Argyropoulou, 2003
Hibernation, Marek Bartelik,
2002
Propos d’Europe, Jean Guyot and Pascale le Thorel,
2002
Pandora’s Box, Women Beyond Borders, Sania Papa, 2000
Truthful and Authentic
Communication, Sania Papa, 2000
Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri,
2000
Approaching Hellinism, Nelly Kyriazi, 1999
Lydia’s Cool Memories, Sania Papa, 1997
Who is Nostalgic, Nikos
Dalaretos, 1999
Manifesta, 1996
Telluric Manifesto, Sania
Papa, 1994
Anima Mundis, Takis, 1993
Ermata, Wanderings of the
Sacred, Sania Papa, 1992
Spira, Sania Papa, 1992
Metamorphose of the Modern,
Anna Kafetzi, 1991
Chimes of Time, Jacques Lacarriere, 1990
Humor ad Revolution, Cannes &
Barselona, 1989
Spirit and Body, Dora Rogan, 1989
The Gods Revist, Pierrre
Giquel, 1988
The Figures of Lydia, Demosthenes Davetas, Edition
Agras, 1988
Lydia Venieri -FIAC 88, Nicole Kinge, 1988
Lydia Venieri, Gerard
Barriere, 1988
Carte Blanche, Centre George Pompidou, 1987
Articles & References
New York: A Photographer's City, Edited by Marla
Hamburg Kennedy, Rizzoli, 2011
“Fairy Tale”, Maison &
Decoration, August, 2009
“Lydia Venieri - Caramelos amargos, Thomas Vio,Art
AlLimite, No33, 2008
“No Evil” Series, Jean Miyake Downey, Japan Focus,
April, 2008
Photography Fall 2007, John Haber, Haberarts, April
2008
War Games by Lydia Venieri, Yatser, November 2007
War Games at Stux Gallery,
Holden, Holden’s Blog, November 2007
Lydia Venieri’s Politically
Charged Dollies, Abby Hertz, Few Reviews, November 2007
Decouverte: Lydia Venieri,
Pierrick Thebault, November 2007
ShowOff: les enfant aussi,
Connaissance des Arts, October 2007
Lydia Veneiri, The Caretaker,
BOE Gazette, October 2007
The Nightly News, Lieven De Boeck, AbsoluteArts,
January 2007
Il Mercato e le Sue Passioni, Lucia Spadano, Segno,
November 2007
Mary Hrbacek, Lydia Venieri at Stux Gallery, M,
November 2007
Lydia Venieri - War Games, le Parisien, October 2007
War Games, Sandra Lapaz ,AM
New York, September 2007
Art Under Siege, Julia Morton, New York Press,
September 2007
Cult Carnage, R.C Baker, Village Voice, January 2007
Vision To Visuals: War games,
Baldev Duggal, Digital PhotoPro, November 2007
Nature Wins Back the
Planet,Glow, Xenia Givoglu, July 2006
Lydia Venieri, Sarah Tanguy,
Sculpture, September 2005
Hibernation, Nadia Argyropoulou, Marie Claire, 2004
Hibernation, Natalie Angles,
Location One, 2004
Theatrical Universe, Arian Lazaridi, Vogue, May 2004
Between Heaven and Earth,
Katerina Asimakopoulou/Kostas Pigadas, Vogue, May 2003
Art Sales: Battle of the Art
Fairs, Colin Gleadell, Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2003
Myth Maker, Flavia Bigi,
Soloarte, 2002
Lydia Venieri, Kathimerini, 2002
Sleeping beauty Awakes,
Paraskevi Katiergi, Ta Nea, 21/10/02
Maison Decoration, Oct 2002
Dolls in the Snow,
Henrie-Francois De Bailleux, Liberation, April 2002
New York Stories, Nina maria
Pashalidou/Caliope, Life & Style, June 2001
Sketches and Words, Taki
Maurotas, Marie Claire, May 2000
Naughty Sketches, Hary
Savopoulos, Agelioforos, 16/4/2002
Ellie’s melting Ice Cream,
Thessalokini, 12/4/2002
With the Guarantee of the Imagination, Fotini
Bloyianni, Panselinos, August 2000
Harpers Bazzar, George
Carouzakis/Camilo Nollas May 2000
Beyond Being, Ego, Apr 2000
Eli’s Big Trip, Enimerosi, Apr
2000
Delphi, Elenor Heartney Hellas Sculpture, Winter 1999
Trash Art, Ozon, Oct 1998
The Athenians, Ana
Mihalitsianou, L’Officiel, 1998
Trash Art, Klick, Oct 1998
Trash Art, Ependtis, 19/9/98
Trash Art, Yanni Dimitriadi,
Diphano, 1998
Two Days in Gazi, Kathimerini, 18/9/98
Art with Trash, Michalis
Petrides, Eleutherotypia, 11/9/98
Art with Trash, Exousia,
8/9/98
Dictionary of the Greek Artist, 16th-20th Century,
Melissa Editions,1997
Two Strangers in the Moon, Eleutheros Typos, 25/9/97
This Little World, Seventeen,
Flora Camhi, December 1997
Lydia Venieri: My Relation
with the Computer is Platonic. Her Internet Work Since 1994, Amaryssia, 25/11/96
CD_ROM or not CD-ROM, Aspasia
Dimitriadi, Art Magazine, 1996
Anima Mundis/ Memory
Installation, Athinorama, Nov 1995
** Pandoras Box, Art Magazine,
The Sound of the Body, Maria
Maragou, Eleutherotypia, 4/11/95
Time Environment & Humans,
Angelo Polydoro, Amarysia, 2/6/1995
Lydia Venieri by Nikos
Stathoulis, Apogeumatini, 1995
Telluric Manifeto, Sania Papa,
Inside, Mar 1995
Lydia Venieri’s show in Larisa, Eleutreria, 25/4/1995
Telluric Manifesto,
Henrie-Francois De Bailleux, Liberation, 1995
At the Planet of Art, Olivia
Manzari, Votre Beautué, Feb 1995
Telluric Manifesto, Nikos
Dakalothanasis, Art Magazine, 1995
Anima Mundis, Arti, Eleni
Pyrioti, Oct 1995
Successfull Meeting of Creation in Delphi, Amanda
Mihalopoulou, Kathimerini, 10/8/1994
Sculptures Under the Shadow of
Apollo, Maria Maragou, Eleutherotypia, 8/8/94
The Meeting, Elenor Heartney,
Arti, 1994
With the Winds of Glory, Maria Hasapi, Amaryssia,
17/10/94
Art with Lava, Dimitra Rouboula, Ethnos, 7/10/94
Sculpture pierces the
Universe, Thanasis Lalas, To Perodiko, 1994
The Telluric Manifesto, Marina
Pisperi, Reumata, Nov/Dec 1994
Sculputres in Delphi, LL,
Eleutherotypia, 1994
The Mythical World of Lydia Venieri, Tonia
Bogdano/Tasos Paylidis, Madame Figaro, 1994
Lydia Venieri, Nikos
Dakalothanasis, Art Magazine, 1994
The Art of Memory, Amanda
Mihalakopoulou, Elle, 1994
Person, Ta Nea, 1/8/94
Internet Sculpture, Irini
Mitropoulos, Adesmeutos, 1994
The Poetic Universe of Lydia
Venieri, Agape Tsahpinoglou/Antoine Rosés, Elle Decor, 1992
Lydia’s Universe, Elite, 1992
Lydia Venieri an Active
Volcano, Dossi Iordanidou, Diva, December 1991
Lydia Venieri, Alex du Val,
Max, 1991
With Volcanic Lava, Nikos Stathoulis, Votre Beautué,
Jan 1991
The Guts of Earth, Sania Papa, Art Magazine, 1991
Universal Harmony, La Mia
Casa, Nov 1990
The Sistres of Time, George Yanopoulo/Athena
Kyriakidou, SL, December 1990
The Sistres of Time, Sania
Papa, Sima, 1990
Lydia Venieri, Apogeumatini, 16/12/90
Universal Harmonies at the New
Mosque, Olga Bati, Gynaika, 1990
This little great world,
Veneri in Thesalonica, Takis Maurotas, Pantheon , 17 December 1990
Young creators, Anne Danberg,
Art Press, 1989
Lydia
Venieri, Dora Rogan, Kathimerini, 11/12/1988
L’Activite Culturelle, Canal
Magazine, 1986
