BIO
George Othonas is a visual artist from Limassol, Cyprus based in Athens, Greece. He studied at the School of fine arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a 5 years integrated master program from 2018 to 2023 in the Direction of New Media in the Visual Arts and direction of photography with teacher Georgios Katsaggelos. After graduating in 2023, he worked as a teacher of graphic design and photography at IEK Homer in Thessaloniki (2023–2025) and he is currently completing a four month paid photography internship at the National Greek Opera through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Currently enrolled as a student in a 2 year program master degree of fine arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. (mfa)
His artistic practice utilizes mixed media as a multi-faceted artistic, aiming to explore the interaction that the image brings between the artist creator and the viewer. His work focuses on the association of the image with public space, but also with the dimensions of time and memory. His themes emerge from lived experiences and emphasize the approach of broader social groups, analyzing their forms of interaction and the ways in which they perceive state rules and mechanisms in their entirety, conservative or otherwise.
FORMAL EDUCATION
2018 – 2023 Integrated Master of Fine Arts in direction of new media in the visual arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Auth) .
2025 – present Master Program (MFA) in Visual Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA)
WORKSHOPS
2024 “UTOPIAS’’ the topology of the impossible, IAFP vol.6, International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece, 27/09/2024 – 29/09/2024
2023 “The Post Humanisms – And Metaverses Conditions”, IAFP vol.5, International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece, 22/09/2023 – 24/09/2023
2023 “Photoshop in the years of Fred Boissonnas’’ Fred Boissonnas and the Mediterranean. A Photographic Odyssey, MOMus- Museum of photography, Thessaloniki, Greece 29/01/2023
2022 “Rural 1.5C” Climate Of Change, triangle of prespa, powered by ActionAid Hellas, Prespes, florina, Greece 20/05/2022 -22/05/2022
RESIDENCIES
2025 “INSPIRE PROJECT 2025: THE RETURN’’, workshop by Leading artist Nikos Charalambidis, MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 04/04/2025 – 10/04/2025
2023 INSPIRE PROJECT: “Tension. Future scenarios and other stories”, workshop by Leading artists: Michael Karikis and Albert Barqué-Duran, MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece 03/04/2023-07/04/2023
2021 The 4th International Youth Art Festival “River of Tolerance” NEF ‘13 Centuries of Bulgaria’, under the patronage of UNESCO – The Shared Art of the Balkans — Traditions and Contemporaneity’, Sofia, Bulgaria, 13/09/2021 – 17/09/2021
sellected group exhibitions
- 2025 “INSPIRE PROJECT 2025: THE RETURN’’, MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 11/04/2025 – 01/06/2025
- 2025 “The Anthropocene Foundry 25 Years’’, The New Museum of Networked Art 2000-2025 // @TAM – Torrance Art Museum TAM, Los Angeles, USA, 18/01/2025 – 01/03/2025
- 2024 «Female figures in art – Recreation with the use of Artificial Intelligence” Booth 45 of (Municipal gallery of Thessaloniki) Art-Thessaloniki International Contemporary Fair | Δ.Ε.Θ.-HELEXPO, Greece 23/05/2024 – 26/05/2024
- 2023 «The Place» 2nd International Festival «Video Art Projects» Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece, 26/05/2023 – 28/05/2023
- 2023 “INSPIRE PROJECT 2023” – “Future scenarios and other stories” MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 07/04/2023 – 28/9/2023
- 2022 “Creative Islands & New Media” – 4th audiovisual festival Little Islands Festival – Sikinos island, Greece 19/08/2022 – 22/08/2022
- 2022 «Video Art Projects» – Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki – Casa Bianca Thessaloniki, Greece 18/05/2022 – 20/05/2022
- 2022 “The Shared Art of the Balkans” – Traditions and Contemporaneity, Culture at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the patronage of UNESCO The Mission Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria 15/04/2022 – 13/05/2022
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