IOANNIS LASSITHIOTAKIS
Biographical note
He was born in Crete in 1956.
He studied painting in
Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
He lives in Athens.
Individual exhibitions
1981 Dada Art Gallery, Athens
1983 Dada Art Gallery, Athens
1985 Dada Art Gallery, Athens
1989 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens
1990 Stavrakakis Gallery, Heraklion
1991 Epikentro Gallery, Patra
1993 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens
1996 Medousa Art Gallery- Medousa +1,
Athens | Tzamia Cristalla Gallery, Chania
1997 Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki
1998 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens
Kleiner Raum :Clasing- Gallery Etage, Münster
1999 Art Forum-Vilka Gallery, Thessaloniki
2000 Tzamia Cristalla Gallery, Chania
2001 Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens |
Art Forum- Vilka Gallery, Thessaloniki
2002 Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens
2003 Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens
2005 Athens Art Gallery, Athens |
Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens
2006 Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki
2007 Athens Art Gallery, Athens
2008 Art Gallery, Alexanroupoli |
Elementary school of Falatados, Tinos island
2009 TIF-Pavilion 6 (44th Dimitria), Thessaloniki
2011 Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2012 Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
2013 Astrolavos gallery, Athens
2017 Lefa municipal gallery, curator E. Gerolymatou.
2018 ΔΛ gallery, Piraeus.
Group exhibitions
1984 “Lassithiotakis- Adamakos- Vordoni-”, Athens College, Athens
1985 “Eikastika”, Municipal Art Centre of Athens, Athens | “The Hellenic Dimension”, Vorres Collection, Chicago, USA
1986 “2nd Biennale of Young Artists from the Mediterranean”, Thessaloniki | “Lassithiotakis- Marouda- Tsakiris”, Epipeda Art Gallery, Athens- Panselinos Art Gallery, Thessaloniki | “Kallidromio II”, Athens | “Pieridis Collection” (Dimitria 86), Thessaloniki
1987 “Antipodes -Young Greek Artists”, Modern Art Museum, Melbourne, Australia
1989 “Body and Spirit”, Zappeion Megaron, Athens (curator: N. Rogan)
1996 “Osaka Triennale”, Osaka, Japan | “Astir of Paros” (organized by Medousa Art Gallery), Paros island
1997 “Art Athina 5”, Medousa Art Gallery | “Argo, Mythical Voyages”, Spirer Mansion, Volos (curator: A. Schina) | “Focus of the Gaze”, Headquarter of the WEU, Brussels (curator: A. Schina)
1998 “With the Lyre and the Fiddlebow”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon (curator: M. Maragou) | “Iakynthia 98”, Anogia, Crete | “Art Athina 6”, Medousa Art Gallery | “Aischyleia 98”, Eleusis (curator: L.Kokkini) | “The new collection”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki | “Under Cover- Revelations- Editions”, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
1999 “4th Biennale of Sarjah” [2nd Award], U.A. Emirates (curator:A.Schina) | “ At the crossroad of Crete”, Tzamia Cristalla Art Gallery, Chania, Crete (curator: P. Kounenaki) | “Ideas and Idols”, Campus Art &Science, Athens (curator: F. Tzanetoulakou)
2001 “Visions and Bonds”, Libety’s Park Art Centre, Athens (curator: H. Kambouridis) | “Rupture- Convergence, Beltsios Collection”, Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Trikala (curator: M. Stefanidis)
2002 “People- Faces- Figures”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon (curator: M. Maragou) | “90 years from the liberation of the N.Aegean ”, Ministry of the Aegean, Mytilini
2003 “Oikade”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon - Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre, Athens (curator: M. Maragou) | “Coup de Coeur”, Athens Art Gallery (curator: E. Alexaki) | “Olympic Spirit and Contemporary Greek Art”, Municipal Gallery of Chania, Crete- M.M.C.A., Thessaloniki- Giorgio de Chirico Cultural Centre, Volos (curator: P. Kounenaki)
2004 “Olympic Spirit and Contemporary Greek Art”, Athens Municipal Cultural Centre (curator: P. Kounenaki) | “Love Art, Love the World”, Andronikos Art Gallery, Mykonos (curator : E. Anthopoulou) | “The Olympic Idea in the Sky”, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens | “Gallery Walk”, Agathi Gallery, Athens | “Athens, city of Games”, Technopolis, Athens | “ Mickey meets Art”, Hellenic American Union, Athens | “Missal”, Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens (curator: I. Criticou)
2006 “Kites”, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens- European Parliament Headquarters, Brussels |“Panorama of Art”, M.C.A, Thessaloniki | “Dialogues”, M.M.C.A.-Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki | “There was once Penelope Delta”, Athens College (curator: I. Criticou) | “Calendar of National Stationary Office”, Agathi Gallery, Athens
2007 Publication of a monograph on his entire ouevre by “Ta nea” newspaper, distributed nationally as part of the series of “Contemporary Greek Painters” | “Native Place”, Benaki Museum, Athens ( curator: I. Criticou)
2008 “Art Athina”, Astrolavos Gallery, Tsatsis Projects Gallery
2009 “Ambassadors of Contemporary Greek Art- Three Generations of painters”, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne (curator: H. Kambouridis) | “35 visual artists for Democracy”, Zappeion Megaron, Athens (curator: T. Mavrotas)
2010 “Tracing Istanbul”, Greek Embassy –Theological School of Halki, Istanbul | Technopolis, Athens (curator: I. Criticou)
2011 “Art Athina”, Astrolavos Gallery | “Time aspects”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon(curator: M. Maragou) | “20x20”, Athinais, Athens (curator:T.Mavrotas)
2013 «To Tinos», Cultural Foundation of Tinos (curator: C. Marinos) | «The maelstrom of art and history», Chapel Renier, Chania (curator: P. Kounenaki)
2014 «Painting II», Frisira Museum, Athens | «Art Athina», Astrolavos gallery, «Statement made», (curator: A. Potamianou).
2015 «Art Athina», Astrolavos gallery.
2015 «Eνα δικό σου δωμάτιο» Γκαλερί Cube, Πάτρα.
2016 «Τρείς γενιές ελληνικής ζωγραφικής», Πινακοθήκη Δήμου Αθηναίων.
2016 «Ετόλμησα να υμνήσω…«Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος 80 χρόνια από το θάνατό του» επιμελήτρια Λουϊζα Καραπιδάκη, Βσιλική Αγίου Μάρκου, Ηράκλειο Κρήτης.
2017 «100 years after the October Revolution» , State museum of Contemporary Art, curator: Yiannis Bolis.
2017 Art Athina, Astrolavos gallery.
2017 Back to Athens, Gateway to Freedom, Cheap art gallery, curator Thalia Vrachopoulos.
2018 Art Athina, Ikastikos kIklos. I Back to basics, Enia gallery, (curator A, Potamianou), I Conciousness, Alfa Gallery Miami.