Kostas Bassanos

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KOSTAS BASSANOS
Born in Greece, lives and works in Athens and Ioannina, he teaches sculpture at The Fine Art and Art Sciences Dept of The University of Ioannina. He is founding member of the editorial team of www.art-omma.org and www.artwaveradio.net

HONORS & AWARDS
1997- MPhil / PhD, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
1995-1996 MA in Sculpture, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK
1994-1997 Greek State Scholarship Foundation Award (IKY)
1987-1991 Honors Degree in Sculpture, Accademia Clementina of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy
1990 Facultad des Belles Artes de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1984-85 Diploma in ceramics at the "G. Ballardini" Ceramic Institute in Faenza, Italy

SOLO SHOWS
2005 I can’t get you out of my head, Ileana Tounta Con/Temporary, Athens
2003 Nightfall, Ileana Tounta Con/Temporary, Athens,
2001 How to Forget, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
1998Fictions, the HotBath Gallery, Bath, UK

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2007 The Athens Effect. L ’image photographique dans l ’art contemporain, Musee Europeen de La Photographie, Paris
2007 Me and the Others, Art Athina 07, Athens
2007 The workshop, Zoumoulaki Galleries, Athens
2006 Artissima, Torino,Italy
2006 Objects in waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2006 The Athens Effect, Fondazione Mudima, curated by Birgit Hoffmeister, Milano, Italy
2006 Architectural Transparencies, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2005 Summer Group Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2004 Manderlay, in Forum 04, Thessaloniki
2004 The Suffering Body, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens
2004 ActionKODRA 04, Thessaloniki
2004 Domestic Alien, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center,Athens
2004 The Suffering Body, Rethymnon Centre of Contemporary Art, Rethymnon
2004 alias Simone Rondelet in Nine Muses, I presume? La Casa Encendida, Madrid,
2004 ARCO 2004, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Madrid
2003 So much so great, Larissa Centre for Contemporary Art, Larissa
2003 Antibody, Art Tower Agora Gallery, Athens
2003 alias Simone Rondelet in Brave New World, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2003 Summer Show, Ileana Tounta Con/Temporary, Athens
2003 Sculpture you Love, Lab Art Projects, Athens
2002 Senses, Technopolis, Athens
2002 Sleep Matters, Cheap Art Centre, Athens
2002 Video installation “Insomnia “’ in orai ISEA 2002 International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Nagoya, Japan
2002 BELOW54_cinefeel: UK, Audiovisual Lounge, London
2001 Artissima, Turin, Italy
2001 Micro museum in Mediaterra 01, Touring Show: Athens, Lavrio, Sofia, Maribor, Osnabrueck Frankfurt
2001 Art Cologne, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Cologne, Germany
2000 Art Athina’00, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2000 Summer Group Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
2000 Miart,Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Milan,
2000 ARCO, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Madrid
1999 Summer Group Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
1997 The IDA Branson Bequest Exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, UK
1997 European Couples (with Stef Pasquini), Summer Show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1997 Summer Group Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
1997 Art Athina ‘97, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
1996 Group show, Winchester Gallery, Winchester
1996 Resonance, group show, The Tannery Gallery, London
1995 Summer Group Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens,
1995 Riparte,Rome, Italy,
1994 Five Young Artists, group show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens