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Ismini Bonatsou was born in Cephalonia. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (1986-1991). She did post-graduate studies in painting, with a scholarship from the Spanish government, at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the University of Barcelona (1993-1994), and holds a Master’s degree from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2010-2012). From 1995 to 2007 she was cooperating on a permanent basis with “SFERRA” Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam as an illustrator and art editor for the Foundation’s printed materials. She has worked in stage design projects, illustrated books for children and made CD covers in Greece and abroad. She was a founding member of the street art group ’Cookless’. She is a member of the art group ‘Tehnopaignion’. She has held 13 solo exhibitions in Greece, Belgium and Spain. She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Cyprus, Turkey, Ecuador, China and Russia.

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e-mail: isminibona@hotmail.com

Solo & Selected Group Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

“Art is an Ark”, Cube Gallery, Patrai (2018) /  “Blooming Girls & Boys”, Ochre Blue, Lemnos (2015) /  “Timings”, Cube Gallery, Patrai (2015) / “Projections”, Metamorphosis Gallery, Thessaloniki (2012) /  Dreamwindows”, Art-Base Gallery, Brussels (2010) / “Windows” Metamorphosis Gallery, Thessaloniki (2008) / “Forms”, G&M Vergoti Foundation, Cephalonia (2008) / “Shadow games”, Art-Base Gallery, Brussels (2007) / “Shadow games”, Spilioti Projects Gallery, Athens (2007) / “Hours”, Metamorphosis Gallery, Thessaloniki (2006) / “Passage”, Gallerie Theorema, Brussels (2005) / “The Child and the Moon”, Gerolymatos Gallery, Athens (2002) /“Two Greek painters: Ismini Bonatsou-Thanassis Pappas”, Pati-Llimona, under the auspices of the Greek Embassy, Barcelona (1994)

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

«Nekyia», The Project Gallery, Athens (2022) / “Canone Doppio”, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palazzo Riso, Palermo (2021) / ART ATHINA, Athens (2021) / "Ex-Staseis: Attempts at the Representation of Liberty", Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos (2021) / Platforms Project, Athens School of Fine Arts (2021-2019-2018-2017) / 'Gioconda's Smile - Five Centuries of Artistic Appropriation' Italian Cultural Institute, Athens /  'Quest for the holy Grail, The Project Gallery, Athens (2019) / Art is a Way Out of Sexual Problems’, Freuds Dream Museum, Saint Petersburg (2018) / ‘Prometheus 2.0, Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens (2018) / 8 Greek+8 Iranian women explore gender identity’, Olive Press Art Factory, Crete (2018) / Polis - Flows - Tensions - Osmosis’, Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens (2017) / Terms of Use’, Technochoros Gallery, Athens (2017) / Carrying the absolutely necessary’, Modern Art Museum, Florina & Railway Carriage Theater, Athens (2016) / ‘The Opening’ Stainos Gallery, Nicosia (2016) / ‘Art on a Postcard’ Whitfield Fine Art, London (2014) / ‘Athens Street Art Festival’, Spata (2014) / Cultural Bridges: Athens-Quito’, Home identity, Quito (2013) / ‘Contemporary Greek Art’, The Eastern Bund Art Space, Shanghai (2013) / ArtmArt, Foundation Kunstwerk Loods 6, Amsterdam (2012) / “Natura“, Eugenides Foundation, Athens (2011) / “The Open Mind of Lefcadio Hearn” The American College of Greece- Athens (2010) / “ARTmART Wien”, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna (2010&2008) / Erotica part3Spilioti Projects Gallery, Athens (2009) / “Color Stories” Art-Base Gallery, Brussels (2008) / “Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair”, Istanbul Convention and   Exhibition Center, Istanbul  2007) /  “Girl Power I, II, III, ΙV” Technopolis, Athens (2002-2006) / “Painters from Thessaloniki”, Vila Bianca, Thessaloniki (2003) / “Freedom Republic, A Visual Tribute”, Yeni Mosque,Thessaloniki (2001) / “Artistic Clothing”, Thessaloniki Port Authority, (2000) / “International Design Biennale”, Palais d’Expositions, Saint Etienne, France (2000) / “Prêt-Art-Porter”, DESTE Foundation, Athens (1999)