BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1981, London, Great Britain. Lives and Works in London, Great Britain.

www.petrosc.com

Education, Grants and Prizes

2010

Residency ISCP New York for the International Studio & Curatorial Prorgram.

2008

The Land Securities Art Prize- Patrick Burrows

British Institution Prize, London, Great-Britain.

The Dunoyer de Segnzac Award

2007

Red Mansion Art Prize, London, Great-Britain.

The RASA Award

2005/08

Royal Academy Schools, MA Fine Art, London, Great-Britain.

2000/03

Central St Martins College of Art and Design, BA Fine Art (hons), London, Great-Britain.

1999/00

Central St Martins College of Art and Design, Foundation Diploma Art and Design, London, Great-Britain.

Solo Exhibitiions

2007/08

Xippas gallery, Athens, Greece.

2007

Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

Group Exhibitions

2011

ISCP Open Studios, New York, USA

Virtually Real, The Burton Gallery, Leeds University, Leeds, Great-Britain.

2010

La dieta del Mediterraneo, La casa de las ideas, Alicante, Spain.

Virtually Real, Blythe Gallery, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, Great-Britain.

2009

Realities and Plausibilities. Re-enacting Realism in Contemporary Photographic Art, Curated by Alexandra Moschovi, Xippas gallery, Athens, Greece.

Freshfaced and wildeyed, The Photographer's Gallery, London, Great-Britain.

The Land Securities Studio Awards, The SW1 Gallery, London, Great-Britain.

And Now, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2008

Bargain Deals on Elephant Gun, Ilena Tounta Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

Interior Looking throught the Art, Fondation Martini International, Turino, Italy.

Super Cilia, The Royal Liver Buildings, Liverpool, Great-Britain.

SCOPE London, Saatchi, London, Great-Britain.

The Royal Academiy Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great-Britain.

These Livings Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, Great-Britain.

3rd Beijing Biennale and Beijing Olympics (in association with the Red Mansion Foundation), UK Pavillion, Beijing, China.

The Red Mansion Art Prize, Lethaby Gallery, London, Great-Britain.

2007-08

Young Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

2007

407, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

Vraisemblances, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain.

Cut & Colour, Blyth Gallery, London, Great Britain.

Start Your Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London, Great-Britain.

RA Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain.

2006-2007

Hayvend Project, in association with Whitechapel, Hayward, Baltic et ICA galleries, Great Britain.

2006

The Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, Great Britain.

Smile, Artistes Project Space, Reykjavik, Island.

Visions, curators: Irene Gerogianni, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece. *

RA Summer Show, , Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great-Britain.

Baroque My World, Transition Gallery, London, Great Britain.

2005

BOC Emerging Artist Award, Atrium Space, Windlesham, Surrey, Great-Britain Hames Levack Project, London, Great Britain.

Green Grunge, Windows Gallery, London, Great Britain.

SKETCH 2005, Rabley Contemporary Drawing Center, Wiltshire/ Seven Seven Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain.

Still Life, Open Studio, Crouch End, London, Great Britain.

2004/05

Bloomberg News Contemporaries 2004, The Coach Shed, Liverpool Biennial/ The Barbican Center, London, Great-Britain. *

2004

Cross Currents, 291 Gallery, London, Great-Britain.

Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London, Great-Britain.

Fest, 291 Gallery, London, Great Britain.

2003

STOLEN, Homefield, New Cross Gate, London, Great Britain.

10 Young Greek Artists, Gallery K, London, Great Britain.

The Eden Collective, 291 Gallery, London, Great Britain.

2002

Art at City Paintball, Bishopsgate, London, Great Britain.

Total Manipulation, The Bull Gallery, London, Great Britain.

* Exhibition Catalogue

Public Collections

The Land Security Group, Great-Britain

The University of the Arts, Great Britain.

The BOC Collection, Great Britain.

The Amy Hall Collection, Great Britain.

Sorigué Fundacio, Spain.

C-Collection, Switzerland.

Red Mansion Foundation, China / UK

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Catalogues

2008

Interor- Looking Through the Art, Vanillaedizioni, Albissola Marina (SV)

Super Cilia, An Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Tilney Private Wealth Management/Deutsche Bank

3rd Beijing Biennalle Catalogue, The Red Mansion Foundation, London

The Royal Academy Schools Show 2008, RA Publishing, London

Blank Show 2008, Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing

In Present Tense – Young Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2006

Irene Gerogianni, "Petros Chrisostomou"in Vision, catalogue exhibition, Kappatos Gallery / Scripta press courtesy, Athens.

The Royal Academy Illustrated 2006, London.

2004/05

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004/2005, New Contemporaries Ltd, London.

Press Articles

2011

The Art Economist n°5, june (ill.)

2009

Gloria Chalmers, "Petros Chrisostomou", Portfolio Magazine, n° 49, Spring.

2008

Rebecca Wilson, "Critics Choice", Saatchi Online, August 11.

"Great, Greater, Greatest", Spitzniews, October 17.

Marina Fokidis, "Petros Chrisostomou Xippas, Athens", Flash Art, May-June, p. 165 (ill.)

"Petros Chrisostomou, Priceless Objects", CHINA NOW- a retrospective

Natacha Wolinski, "La grande illusion", Madame Figaro, April, (ill).

Chris Bors, "Petros Chrisostomou in Athens", ARTINFO, January 25.

"For Modernists", Glamour, February.

"Ambiguous View: Petros Chrisostomou", VIMADECO, February.

Christa Konstantinidi, "First Solo Show for Petros Chrisostomou", ESTIA, January 21.

"Art agenda; news and views", ATHINORAMA, January 21.

Tatiana Kapodistria,"Precocious nightmares", Kathimerini, January 20.

"… and for collectors", ISOTIMIA, January 4.

Andrea Gilbert, "Interior Landscapes", City Uncovered, January 3.

Anastasia Kamvisi, "Arts agenda; Microscopic Sculptures", House and Garden, January.

Fivos Sakalis, "The World of Petros Chrisostomou in Athens", Go- Culture.com

2007

"Photographie Contemporaine", Beaux-Arts Magazine, November, p. 117 (ill.)

"Une expo à voir", Dandy Magazine, October-November.

"Petros Chrisostomou", Source, No.50, Spring, pp. 35-41.

Antoine Isenbrandt, "Vraisemblances", Paris-art.com, May-June.

"Heterogeneous Materials", Podiki Newspaper, December 27

Rania Georgiadou, "From the Lilliputians to chatelaine", Epsilon, December 9

Katerina Zacharopoulou, "Strange sculpture from… chewing gums", Ethnos Out, December 9

Despoina Trivoli, "I love Athens: Chrisostomou exhibition", Lifo, December 6

Nelli Spiliopolou, "Exhibitions, Petros Chrisostomou", Weekly City Guide, December 13

2006

Phillips Heather, "Baroque My World", A-N Magazine

Alexandra Koroxenidis,"Art project in an unlikely setting", Kathimerini, English edition, April.

2005

"Windlesham final names emerging artist of 2005", Woking news and mail, September.

2002

"Paintings from Petros", The Times, Thursday, February 21st.

"Total Manipulation", Eleftheria, Thursday, February 14th.

Julie Ebsworth, "Total Manipulation", The Bull Gallery Press, Tuesday, February 19th.