Eleni Odysseos
b.1991, Cyprus
London & Nicosia
Education
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2018
BA Fine Art, University of Leeds, 2014
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 2011
Awards / Grants / Residencies
2021 - Abbey Fellowship in Painting, British School at Rome, UK / IT
2021 - Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennial, San Marino, IT
2020 - Arts Council Emergency Response Package, UK
2020 - Phytorio, Artist in Residency, Nicosia, CY
2018 - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London, UK
2014 - Woon Foundation for Painting and Sculpture Art Prize Newcastle, UK
Selected Exhibitions
solo
2023
An Elegy for Coming Undone, Curated by Denise Araouzou, Supported by Cultural Services, Ministry of Culture, Cyprus
Korai Project Space, Nicosia, CY
2022
ἐστί. Commissioned by the Public Works Department of Cyprus and the Supreme Court. Famagusta, CY
2014
Breathing Helix, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia, CY
group
2023
ART ATHINA, Korai Project space, Athens, GR
A Meeting of Worlds / Xarkis X Symbraxis, Kornos, CY
A City-center Seaview Penthouse at Oceanic, Limassol ART WALKS, Limassol, CY
Marks of Common, Phytorio, Limassol ART WALKS, Limassol, CY
Ο Όγμιος Σφάγγει Γαργαντάν τζιαι Βήλο Μυιάν Στους Γολγούς, Hambis Printmaking Museum, Nicosia, CY
2022
BRAVO BRAVO EDITIONS, Nicosia, CY
Member of the advisory board, ‘Inside the Outset:Evoking a Space of Passage’
Open Air Cinema, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Dherynia Buffer Zone, CY
The Tending of the Otherwise, BJCEM, Procida Capitale Italiana Della Cultura, IT
2021
Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome, IT
June Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, IT
School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennial, San Marino
HOOK Selects, Hook Art, NY, USA
Seeking Roots, curated by Ioulita Toumazi, NiMAC, Nicosia, CY
2020
Hotel Happines, (online), curated by Beverley Gadsden, Miriam Naeh and Paul Chappelier, London, UK
Me and My Friends, Korai Project Space, Nicosia, CY
D-S, And Oh Those Eyes That Were Data-Saturated, Organised by the Cyprus High Commission in the UK - Cultural Section and supported by the Cultural Services - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus and the Cyprus Visual Artists Association (EI.KA)
https://www.data-saturated.com/eleniodysseos
2019
I Hope This Finds You Well, Gallery 64, Eve Liebe Gallery, London, UK
Sea2_Serafim, Selected Ontology Screening (Proxymund), Seager Gallery, London, UK
Mistaken Sponges, Creekside, London, UK
Hoc Eva, Eve Liebe Gallery, London, UK
Plucky Pony Makes Break For Freedom, SET, London, UK
2018
Be Water Again, Korai Project Space, Nicosia, CY
Figurative NOW, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, UK
Toxic Mirror, curated by Mirena Liakousi, Enclave, London, UK
A Change in Weather - Eleni Odysseos and Paul Gaudet, curated by Oana Damir and Tea Gradassi, No Format Gallery, London, UK
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
Techno Utopia, curated by G_URL, Sluice Projects, London, UK
Beyond the Standard Model, Almanac Projects, London, UK
Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Slightly Seared on the reality grip, Unit 5 Gallery, London, UK
2017
Deptford X, 2 Deptford Church Street, London, UK
Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, London, UK
2016
Prepositions, Kunstfabrik, Berlin, DE
Spatial Centers, Projektraum, Berlin, DE
2015
Testbed, Eleni Odysseos & Fiona Grady, ArtLacuna, London, UK
Art in Austere Times, Is Not Gallery, Nicosia CY
Laidlaw Library, Leeds, UK
2014
Another Athens Film Screening, Interview Room 11 & SNEHTA, UK&GR
A Restless Geometry, Eleni Odysseos & Fiona Grady, cur. by the International 3, Supported by ESA, Union 105 Chappeltown, UK
Woon Foundation for Painting and Sculpture Art Prize, Gallery North, Newcastle, UK
Leeds Revisited, BIG Gallery, Dortmund, DE
_Matters, Fine Art Degree Show, Leeds, UK
Art in Austere Times, Isnot Gallery, Nicosia, CY
Recent Interviews
Interview with Marta Pellerini, Fine Arts curator at the British School at Rome:
https://britishschoolatrome.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/meet-the-artists-eleni-odysseos/
Interview on Art Verge:
https://art-verge.com/2020/05/18/eleni-odysseos-il-beniamino/