Maria Paschalidou (c) 2006


Maria Paschalidou was born in Athens, Greece in 1966. In 1999 she moved to Chicago, U.S. to attain an M.F.A. (Columbia College Chicago, Jan. 2005). She also studied Photography (Focus School of Photography, Video and New Technologies; Athens, Greece, 1991-93) and Economics (B.A., Macedonian University of Economics; Thessaloniki, Greece, 1984-90). She has participated in many exhibitions in Europe, U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia and Australia. She curated the international juried exhibition Ekecheiria (Schopf Gallery on Lake; Chicago, June - August 2004 - in cooperation with the Office of the Consul for Educational Affairs at the Consulate General of Greece) and co-curated The Art of Artist Statement international invitational exhibition (Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center; Chicago, February 18-April 2, 2005 - The City Arts Grants of Chicago, The Illinois Arts Council). She currently curates the Visibility, a multi-media public art performance of artists and academics in the Street Market of Attiki Square (Athens, September 2007). She has been invited and participated in numerous public discussions among others: Artistic Inquiry and the Role of the Artist in Academe (Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia Canada , November 2005) - Alien Communities: Displacement and Isolation, Aliens of Extraordinary Ability. Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The University of Chicago; Chicago, May 13, 2005. As an inderdisciplinary artist, she works mainly with Installation, Photography, Digital Imaging & Video, Experimental Digital Sound and Interactive CD-ROMs. Based on 'visual' metaphors and fabrications of invented spaces, ephemeral constructions, conditions and performances, her artwork concerns the interactions and transformations of the Self in its contact with the urban, cultural and technological environment. Download a pdf of the complete CV SELECTED EXHIBITIONS World One Minutes Beijing 2008. One Minute Foundation, Beijing Today Art Museum [Museum of Contemporary Art of Beijing]; Beijing, China, June 2008. Projection of the video "Recovering Memory" ArtWaveRadio, an Athens Biennial Project, Broadcast of Voice Mail 2001-04, July 14 - July 23, 2007, Athens, Greece; Curated by Dimitris Foutris & Kostas Bassanos 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - "Heterotopias", State Museum of Contemporary Art with the support of the Ministry of Culture Greece, Project Public Screen, September 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece ; Curated by Syrago Tsiara 2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art Shumen 2006, Visual Immortality, July 3-30 September, 2006, Bulgaria; Curated by Elena Panayotova and Peter Tzanev When the Other appears on the Scene, Onufri 05, National Gallery of Arts, December 05- January 06, Tirana, Albania; Curated by Eleni Laperi Urban flesh and blood, The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts & ArtExpo International Video art Festival; Movie Theater Barricade September 30, 2005, Kaliningrad, Russia Alien Communities: Displacement and Isolation, "Aliens of Extraordinary ability"; Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The Biological Sciences Learning Center, The University of Chicago, May 13, 2005, Chicago, U.S.; Invitational ArtExpo, International Video art Festival: April 2005, Sala Estense - Ferrara, Bari, Italy International Digital Art Award 2005; Melbourne, Australia 5th Forum for European Artistic Mobility, Video Art Projections 17-19 December, 2004, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Thessaloniki and Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Greece The Other Body, Eugenides Foundation, Planetarium; 4th Human Rights Arts Festival, December 10-12, 2004, Athens, Greece Fractured Lines, Glass Curtain Gallery, January 2003; Chicago, U.S., Curated by Sabrina Raaf, Professor of Digital Media, The University of Illinois, Invitational Digital Dumbo 2002, D.U.M.B.O Arts Center; Brooklyn, NY In -Transit Gallery, Merchandise Mart Brown Line Station; Public Installation; Chicago, U.S., 2002 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association; Cambridge, MA, U.S., 2001. Juror: Maxwell L. Anderson, Director of the American Whitney Museum in New York (2000-04), founding Chairman of the Art Museum Image Consortium Self-Portraits, Thessaloniki Center of Photography; Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 1997

Maria Paschalidou was born in Athens, Greece in 1966.

In 1999 she moved to Chicago, U.S. to attain an M.F.A. (Columbia College Chicago, Jan. 2005). She also studied Photography (Focus School of Photography, Video and New Technologies; Athens, Greece, 1991-93) and Economics (B.A., Macedonian University of Economics; Thessaloniki, Greece, 1984-90).

She has participated in many exhibitions in Europe, U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Albania, Bulgaria, Russia and Australia.

She curated the international juried exhibition Ekecheiria (Schopf Gallery on Lake; Chicago, June - August 2004 - in cooperation with the Office of the Consul for Educational Affairs at the Consulate General of Greece) and co-curated The Art of Artist Statement international invitational exhibition (Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center; Chicago, February 18-April 2, 2005 - The City Arts Grants of Chicago, The Illinois Arts Council). She currently curates the Visibility, a multi-media public art performance of artists and academics in the Street Market of Attiki Square (Athens, September 2007).

She has been invited and participated in numerous public discussions among others: Artistic Inquiry and the Role of the Artist in Academe (Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia Canada , November 2005) - Alien Communities: Displacement and Isolation, Aliens of Extraordinary Ability. Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The University of Chicago; Chicago, May 13, 2005.

As an inderdisciplinary artist, she works mainly with Installation, Photography, Digital Imaging & Video, Experimental Digital Sound and Interactive CD-ROMs. Based on 'visual' metaphors and fabrications of invented spaces, ephemeral constructions, conditions and performances, her artwork concerns the interactions and transformations of the Self in its contact with the urban, cultural and technological environment.

Download a pdf of the complete CV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

World One Minutes Beijing 2008. One Minute Foundation, Beijing Today Art Museum [Museum of Contemporary Art of Beijing]; Beijing, China, June 2008. Projection of the video "Recovering Memory"
ArtWaveRadio, an Athens Biennial Project, Broadcast of Voice Mail 2001-04, July 14 - July 23, 2007, Athens, Greece; Curated by Dimitris Foutris & Kostas Bassanos
1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art - "Heterotopias", State Museum of Contemporary Art with the support of the Ministry of Culture Greece, Project Public Screen, September 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece ; Curated by Syrago Tsiara
2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art Shumen 2006, Visual Immortality, July 3-30 September, 2006, Bulgaria; Curated by Elena Panayotova and Peter Tzanev
When the Other appears on the Scene, Onufri 05, National Gallery of Arts, December 05- January 06, Tirana, Albania; Curated by Eleni Laperi
Urban flesh and blood, The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts & ArtExpo International Video art Festival; Movie Theater Barricade September 30, 2005, Kaliningrad, Russia
Alien Communities: Displacement and Isolation, "Aliens of Extraordinary ability"; Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, The Biological Sciences Learning Center, The University of Chicago, May 13, 2005, Chicago, U.S.; Invitational

ArtExpo, International Video art Festival: April 2005, Sala Estense - Ferrara, Bari, Italy
International Digital Art Award 2005; Melbourne, Australia
5th Forum for European Artistic Mobility, Video Art Projections 17-19 December, 2004, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Thessaloniki and Goethe Institut Thessaloniki, Greece
The Other Body, Eugenides Foundation, Planetarium; 4th Human Rights Arts Festival, December 10-12, 2004, Athens, Greece
Fractured Lines, Glass Curtain Gallery, January 2003; Chicago, U.S., Curated by Sabrina Raaf, Professor of Digital Media, The University of Illinois, Invitational
Digital Dumbo 2002, D.U.M.B.O Arts Center; Brooklyn, NY
In -Transit Gallery, Merchandise Mart Brown Line Station; Public Installation; Chicago, U.S., 2002
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association; Cambridge, MA, U.S., 2001. Juror: Maxwell L. Anderson, Director of the American Whitney Museum in New York (2000-04), founding Chairman of the Art Museum Image Consortium
Self-Portraits, Thessaloniki Center of Photography; Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 1997