Education

  • PhD (Fine Art/Painting), Royal College of Art, London UK
  • MA oxon (Sculpture), Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, Oxford UK
  • BA (Comparative Literature), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021 Azimuth and Elevation, curated by Panos Mattheou and Vasiliki Panagiotopoulou, TalcStudios, Athens GR
  • 2019 aphasia reprise, Hockney Gallery, London UK
  • 2012 Dry Salvage, Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India
  • 2011 …these are not real people… Site-specific installation in collaboration with Siakos-Hanappe Gallery, Athens, GR
  • 2010 water’s wet, video & Project Room installation, collaboration with composer Huang Ruo, curated by Santiago Navilla, Chelsea Art Museum, NY USA
    Video Triptych: water’s wet, Siakos-Hanappe Gallery, Athens GR
  • 2007 Scape2007, Solo Painting/Installation Exhibition, Total Arts Space, Dubai UAE Mare Nostrum Solo Painting/Installation Exhibit, Pireaus Marine Club, Athens GR
  • 2006 Mare Nostrum/ABSea Solo Coastal Installation/Painting Exhibition, Athens GR [Sponsors included Grecotel, Avra, US Embassy, UPS]
  • 2005 Biennale representing Greece, ArtHouse, Tripoli Libya
  • 2002 Galini2002 Solo Painting/Installation Exhibition, Athens GR

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2023 Ordinary Things, curated by Louise Siddons, Winchester Gallery UK
  • 2019 FutureLab, Shanghai, China
  • 2018 Flight Mode, Assembly Point, London UK
  • 2017 DayBreak, Maverick Projects, London UK
    Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
    SightUnseen, (curator and contributing artist), Dyson Gallery, London UK
  • 2016 Matter, Woo Gallery, London UK Affect Aspect (part of Memory & Perception AHRC event), Rich Mix, London UK
  • 2015 Why Would I Lie? RCA Research Biennale, Dyson Gallery, London UK
    PQaRt Group Exhibition, Dean Bradley House, London UK
    two hundred acres, Pump House Gallery, London UK
    Giving, Gallery 98TBR, London UK
    RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
  • 2014 Re: SEARCH, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London UK
  • 2011 ArtAthina, Group Presentation, Booth H3 Siakos-Hanappe Gallery, Athens GR
    Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, Sloane Fine Art, New York, NY USA
  • 2010  Temporary Contemporary, Kunstraum Stilwerk, Vienna AT
    New Work – Exhibition with Guy van Bosche, Phillip Akkerman and Christos Ponis, Siakos-Hanappe Gallery, Athens GR
  • 2009 Inaugural Group Show, Siakos-Hanappe Gallery, Athens GR
  • 2008 Island Dream, Video collaboration with Patrick Topitschnig & Karl Kühn, Euboia GR
    Silent Dialogues, Group Show (curated by Megakles Rogakos), ACG Art, Athens GR
  • 2006 Group Show (curated by Santiago Navilla), Xposure/Alpha Space, New York, NY USA
  • 2005 Group Show, TAF Art, Athens GR
  • 2001 Colour Printmaking Exhibition, New York University, New York USA

Residencies / Awards

  • WetAI Lab, Interdisciplinary Research Fund, University of Southampton (2023-2024)
  • AHRC TECHNE Grant, London UK (2015-2018)
  • Leventis Scholar, London UK (2014-2017)
  • Research Conference Fund, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2015)
  • Niarchos Foundation Arts Grant (2013)
  • Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, India (Feb/March 2012)
  • Vermont Studio Center (Artist’s Grant), Johnson VT (March 2010)
  • Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA (Jan 2010)
  • International OpenArt Residency, Euboia GR (Sept 2008)
  • New York University Teaching Fellow (2002)

Conferences / Teaching

  • Senior Lecturer (Painting Lead), Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK (2021-ongoing)
  • Editorial Assistant, Journal of Contemporary Painting, London UK (2017-2021)
  • Part-time Lecturer, MRes Program, Royal College of Art, London UK, sponsored by AHRC (2017-2018)
  • MOCO ’17, 4th International Conference on Movement Computing, Goldsmiths UOL, London (June 2017)
  • Peer Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Painting, London UK (2017)
  • Visiting Lecturer, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath UK (April 2017)
  • Visiting Lecturer, MA Seminar Mind the Gap, Royal College of Art, London UK (March 2017)
  • Visiting Lecturer, Kingston University, London UK (Dec 2016)
  • Memory & Perception (organizing committee), TECHNE sponsored inter-disciplinary conference & event, London UK (Nov 2016)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea (Oct 2016)
  • ISSC 2016 Conference, The Logics of Image: Visualization, Iconicity, Imagination and Human Creativity, Santorini GR (July 2016)
  • DeTao Technoetic Arts Conference, Consciousness Reframed: art & consciousness in the post-biological era, Shanghai, China (Nov 2015)
  • C3GI, Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence, Prague, Czech Republic (August 2014)
  • 9th ISIS Congress-Festival Symmetry: Art and Science (Sept 2013)
  • Lecturer (Expository Writing), New York University (2002)

Public Collections

  • Royal Bank of Scotland, Pireaus GR
  • Deutsche Bank, Dubai UAE
  • Vorres Museum of Modern Art, Athens GR
  • ACG Art Collection, Athens GR

Bibliography / Publications

  • Journal of Contemporary Painting, Issue 7:1, Speculative Scholarship: Between text and image, (Dec 2021)
  • SightUnseen, collaborative publication, AHRC/TECHNE funded, sponsored by the RCA, March 2017
  • ISSC International Conference – The Logics of Image: Visualization, Iconicity, Imagination and Human Creativity, Co-author, July 2016
  • Technoetic Arts Journal: A Sense of Meaning, Co-author, Nov 2015
  • 9th ISIS Congress-Festival Symmetry: Art and Science, Polytropos Project: A Mechanism for New Media, Co-author, Sept 2013
  • van Hal, Marieke “Portraits 2010” …these are not real people… Catalogue Introduction 2010
  • Catling, Brian “Catalogue Introduction” Mare Nostrum ABSea Coastal Installation 2006
  • Girst, Thomas “The Rocks of Ages: Christina Mamakos and the Giant Boulders of Mykonos”, NYArts Review Jan 2003
  • Koroxenidis, Alexandra “An Imaginative combination of art and the urban environment” International Herald Tribune, Dec 2002
  • Stara, Alexandra “On Christina Mamakos’ Work” Galini2002 Catalogue Introduction, 2002