Effie Halivopoulou

BFA, MFA, Pratt Institute

Department Head, received an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in New York. She is a contemporary artist currently working on installations of video and painting. Her work was presented at: the Biennale of Mediterranean Countries, 1986 Thessaloniki; Venice Biennale 1997; BIDA Biennale 2005; Seville, Spain, Biennale 1 – Public Screen 2007; Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Open 15; Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2012. She has participated in exhibitions at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2002 and 2006), the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (2002, 2005, 2009), the Hellenic Museum in Chicago (2005), the Averoff Foundation, Metsovo, 2002, the Foundation for Hellenic Culture of New York and Berlin (2000-1999), the Riverside Studios, London (2000), the Grimaldis Gallery Baltimore(1999, 2009), and the Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1992. Her solo exhibitions have been shown at the ArtBeat Gallery, Brussels (2008), Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens (2009), Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki (2011, 2002 and 1994), Batagianni Gallery, Athens (2002 and 2007). She is a visiting artist/ lecturer in numerous institutions www.halivopoulou.net