EDUCATION/ STUDIES

1966 B.A. University of Geneva, Switzerland
1967 M.S. Comparative Journalism, Columbia University, NY
1967 Documentary film production with Fred W.Friendly
1967 Internship at Look Magazine with Arthur Rothstein
1967 Internship at WGBH-TV Boston, Ma.
1972 B.A. Photography, Polytechnic of Central London
1974 Ceramics, Earthworks Pottery, NY
1984-86 Painting & Sculpture, Brenda Goodman Studio, NY
1993 Electronic Imaging, New School Computer Center
1995 New York Studio School of Painting Drawing & Sculpture

GRANTS

1999 Foundation for Hellenic Culture Individual Artist Grant

1967 Helen Lee Lasen Fellowship, Columbia University

1967 Catharwood Foundation Grant

1966 Fulbright Grant

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022 "Fire in The Lake" Zoumboulakis Galleries, Kolonaki, Athens

2014 "The Cursed Serpent" BENAKI Museum Pireos, Athens. Curator Christina Petrinou

2014 Open Art Exhibition, Francoise Heitsch, Munich

2002 “Venice” video installation, A.rt R.esources T.ransfer, Chelsea, NY

2000 “Virtual Landscape” “Another Wolseley” video Installation. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

2000 “Quasi Periodic Space” series. A.rt R.esources T.ransfer, Chelsea NY 

2000 “Quasi Periodic Space” series. Foundation for Hellenic Culture, NY

1996 “Fragments”: Photographic collages. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

1996 “Afghanistan 1972” B&W silver prints. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

1991 “Space Odyssey” series. Iron constructions with photographs on aluminum, 3/8” glass, all edges beveled, bolts. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens.

1991 “Universal Salvage” Color Coupler prints with oil paint. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

1986 “Journey through Ellis Island” series: Large scale CCprints. Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 Museum, NY

1985 “Journey through Ellis Island” series: Large scale CCprints. Zoumboulakis Galleries, Kolonaki, Athens

1985 “Nudes 1984” Life size silver prints. Zoumboulakis Galleries, Kolonaki, Athens

1982 “Nude Landscapes” Photographic prints from multiple negatives. Zoumboulakis Galleries, Kriezotou, Athens

1982 “NY Graffiti” series. Color Coupler prints. Zoumboulakis Galleries, Kriezotou, Athens

PERFORMANCES & VIDEOS

2023 "SeaMonster II", performance for the camera, single channel video with sound, duration: 14 mins.

2022 "Fire in the Lake", performance for the camera, single channel video with sound, duration: 13 mins. 

2019 "Political Science", live performance at the Fulbright Foundation Greece, Nov. 2, 2019

2019 "SeaMonster Monk", live performance-video installation at LIVE@ARTATHINA, Sep. 13, 2019

2019 "We're All Gonna Go", performance for the camera, single channel video with sound, 

in collaboration with Tomashi Jackson at MoMUS/Museum Alex Mylona.

2016 "AVE MARIA", three channel video with sound, 10:50 mins.

Premiered at MoMUS/Museum Alex Mylona.

2016 "Alex Mylona 1922-2016", single channel video with sound, 15 mins.

Premiered at MoMUS/Museum Alex Mylona.

2014"Delalis/The City Crier", video performance, single channel video with sound, duration: 9:17 mins. 

Premiered at Benaki Museum solo show "The Cursed Serpent"

2011-18 "Virtual Conversations", single channel video with sound, 5 minutes on a loop. 

Premiered at Thessaloniki Biennial: "Roaming Images"

2004 "The Lamb of GOD", single channel video with sound, 8 mins.

Premiered at Athens Biennial: Destroy Athens.

2002 "Venice", single channel video with sound, 3:48 mins.

Premiered at the Art Resources Transfer, New York.

2000 "Another Wolseley" Video Installation: Fireworks

"Another Wolseley" George. Ileana Tounta Gallery

1999 "Quasi Periodic Matches", 8 mins video on a loop.

1991 "Space Odyssey", construction and installation of Space Odyssey series, 8 min.

1983-90 "Journey Through Ellis Island", single channel video with stills from Ellis Island, 20 mins.  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 "The Office of Hydrocommons." ATOPOS, Athens. Curator Eleni Riga.

2023 "Off The Cloth II." WhiteBox, NYC. Curators Karen Cordero & Yohanna M. Roa.

2022 "Collective Brain." The Opening Gallery, NYC. Curator Sozita Goudouna. 

2022 "Handmade: On the Social Dimensions of Craft." Schwarz Foundation, 

Art Space Pythagorion, Samos, Greece. Curator Katerina Gregou. 

In collaboration with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2022 "The Clown Spirit." Belgian Gallery, Belgium. Curator Joanna DeVos

2022 "Maison d‘ Artistes." Galerie Francoise Heitsch, Saint-Raphaël, South France

2022 "Nuit Blanche." Museum of Natural History of Crete. Curator Eirini Linardaki

2019 "POLYMORPHIA." ID-PROJECTART organized by FULBRIGHT Greece

2019 "LIVE@ARTATHINA." Curator Sozita Gouzouna

2019 "Am I That Name Or That Image." MOMus of Thessaloniki hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art-Skopje

2019 "BLIND Date." Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece. Curator Adonis Volanakis

2019 "Inside, Out and Beyond." Consulate General of Greece, NYC.

Curator Antonia Papatzanaki

2019 "Quest for the Holy Grail." The Project Gallery, Athens

2018 "Art Athina International." featured @ Francoise Heitsch Gallery Munich

2018 "Symptom Projects 9." Amphissa Greece. Curators Fay Zika and Nikos Papadopoulos

2018 "In Loco Parentis." Romantso, Athens

2018 "IMAGO MUNDI." Benetton Collection. Curator by Beral Madra

2018 "DIASPORA." Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NYC

2018 "PAPER MOON." Museum of Contemporary Art Crete, Greece

2017 "NEW ACQUISITIONS 2014-2017." EMST The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2017 "IMAGiNED HOMES." Thessaloniki Biennale 6 at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art.

2017 "THE ARTIST/ KNIGHT." at Gaasbeek Castle, Belgium. 

Curator Joanna De Vos

2017 "CANAKKALE WALK 2017 HOMELAND." Villa Schlikker, Kunsthalle Osnabruck,Germany. Curator Christian Oxeniu

2017 "VIOLENCE." Eresou 40, Athens. Curator Nikos Giavropoulos

2017 "ON PAPER." Gallery d’Arte / Paris Koh Fine Arts, NYC. Curator Antonia Papatzanaki

2017 "ex-pats." Museum Alex Mylona, Athens. Curator Apostolis Artinos

2016 "Urgent Conversations." Athens / Antwerp The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

2016 "EMST Inaugural Show." Curators Bart De Baere M HKA, Katerina Koskina EMST

2015 "ARTmART." Vienna

2015 "VANDALISM." CHEAPRT Athens, Greece

2015 "WELCOME." Museum of Contemporary Art, Olivepress, Chania, Crete, Greece

2014 "Art Athina." featured @ Francoise Heitsch Gallery, Athens, Greece

2014 "Art Athina Contemporaries." Curator Artemis Potamianou, Greece

2013 "SYNTHESIS." Francoise Heitch Gallery, Munich, Germany

2013 "When Art becomes the Solution." CAMP Athens, Greece

2013 "The Symptom Projects." Curator Apostolis Artinos. Amphissa, Greece

2011 "Roaming Images." Thessaloniki Biennial, Greece

2009 "Summer Accrochage." Kouros Gallery, NYC

2007 "Destroy Athens." Athens Biennial, Greece. 

Participation with "The Lamb of God"

2007 "Eterotopies." Biennale of Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Public Screening of "Venice"

2007 "In Situations." Municipal Art Gallery, Kalamata, Greece. 

Participation with "Brainstorming"

2007 The Macedonian Museum of Art Collection at the BENAKI Museum, Athens, Greece

2007 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art "Memories" Thessaloniki, Greece

2007 The American College in Greece Art Collection, Athens, Greece

2006 "Masquerades." KMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2006 "Homage to Pineloppi Delta." Athens College, Greece

2004 "Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct." Tweed Museum of Art,University of Minnesota Duluth, MN

2004 "Ekecheiria." Schopf Gallery of Art, Chicago, IL

2004 "Art/Science." University of Richmond (Virginia) Museums

2004 "Art/Science." Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts, NJ

2003 "Art/Science." Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts, NJ

2002 "The Olympic Spirit." Athens Municipal Gallery, Greece

2001 "Art and Mathematics." Berkshire Community College, MA

2000 "Modern Odysseys: Modern Greek American Artists." Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

2000 "Art and Mathematics." The Cooper Union, NY

2000 "In Tandem." Eleni Mylonas & Ertugul Ates. Two person show at Marmara Gallery, NY

1999 "Modern Odysseys: Modern Greek American Artists." Curators Peter Selz & William Valerio, 

Queens Museum of Art, NY

1999 "Modern Odysseys: New Faces." Curator William Valerio. Foundation for Hellenic Culture, NY

1995 New York Studio School, paintings

1994 Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece

1993 Art Athina ‘93’, Athens, Greece

1991 "Women of Vision." Konica Plaza, Tokyo

1990 "New Voices in Gr/Am Art." The Cooper Union, NY. 

Participation with “Universal Salvage”

1990 "Silent Voices." Permanent Installation, Ellis Island Museum, NY

1986 "Freedom & Justice." Alternative Museum, NY

1986 "The Embellishment of the Statue of Liberty." Vanity Fair/Barney’s, NY Photographic print.

1985 "Dog days of August." Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, NY. 

Participation with “City Business” photographic print with old ornate gold frame.

1984 Curwen Gallery, London, England, Ellis Island series

1984 Athenaeum Intercontinental, Athens, Greece

1983 Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York. Participated with “Nudes.”

1983 Memories of Fire, Gallery 3, Athens, Greece. Collaboration with Lizzie Calligas

1982 European Exhibition of Art, Brussels, Belgium

1981 "Nudes." The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England 

1981 Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, Netherlands

1977 SoHo Photo Gallery, NY

1972 "Shenley." a photographic portrait of a Mental Hospital. 

The Royal Photographic Society, London, England

FILM FESTIVALS

2023 "Dumbo Film Festival." Brooklyn, NY. Official Selection 

2022 "Vaasa Wild Life Film Festival." Vaasa, Finland

Official Selection - Second Runner Up

2022 "Short to the Point." Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania

Official Selection

SITE SPECIFIC PROJECTS

2015 DELPHI Museum Dialogues with Omphalos

2001 Kyriakopoulos AE Lobby with Alexandros Tombazis Architect

1996 "Argos Art Festival: Altar" mixed media installation--steel, human skull photographs, canvas, butcher blocks--in a former slaughterhouse.

1989 'International Art Symposium.' permanent installation, Crete, Greece “Haris: homage to the laborer” rope construction, iron, armature, bolts, telegraph pole, rock. Outdoor installation on the waterfront.

CATALOGUES / MONOGRAPHS

2014 The Cursed Serpent

2000 Quasi Periodic Space1999

1996 Fragments

1989 Universal Salvage

1985 Journey Through Ellis Island

PRESENTATIONS OF ARTIST’S WORK ON TELEVISION & RADIO

2022 Trito ERT Radio 'The Age of Images' by Katerina Zacharopoulou

2017 ERT2 TV 'The Age of Images' by Katerina Zacharopoulou

2000 NET TV 'Shaker' by Fei Karavitis

2000 Antena TV 'Katse Kala' by Panayotis Tatsis

1999 Antena Satelite TV by Alexandra Spiridakis

1991 MEGA Channel 'Bravo Roula' Greeks of New York
SELECTED ARTICLES / REVIEWS

2021 'LiFO Magazine', "Eleni Mylona's trip to Afghanistan in 1971 

in a Volkswagen", by Argyro Bozoni

2020 'Vasari 21', Eleni Mylonas: "Alternative Self-Portraits"

2020 'Los Angeles Times', Review by Sharon Mizota

2020 'Ta Nea Tis Texnis' by Charis Kanellopoulou

2019 'Neos Kosmos', by Stella Sevastopoulos

2016 'ArtSlant'

2016 'ATHENS Insider', Eleni Mylonas: “Greeks are a World Class Puzzle”

2016 'ART SCENE ATHENS', Mylonas Interview (part 2)

2014 'ART22', Interview by art critic Ira Papapostolou

2014 'Ta Nea Tis Texnis'

2014 'Insider Athens' by Stella Sevastopoulos

2014 'Munich Press-Die Welt auf dem Korf'

2013 'CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point'

2012 'Fulbright Foundation-Art for Education'

2007 'ArtNet' Review by Brian Skar

2000 'To Vima' Painting with photographs by Katia Arfara

2000 'Athens News'

2000 'Eleftheros Typos'

2000 'Tahidromos'

2000 'To Vima' Geometric Infinity by Katia Arfara

2000 'The National Herald' Photographic Collages. 

2000 Efi Andreadis essay in Quasi Periodic Space Catalogue

2000 Naomi Spector essay in Quasi Periodic Space Catalogue

1999 'Klik' Twelve NY Artists, George Armaos

1999 'Modern Odysseys' Catalogue essay by Thalia Selz

1999 'Melissa Artist Reference Dictionary' entry by Efi Strouza

1998 'Figaro Maison' Ioannou/ Pikadas

1996 'To Vima' A puzzle of photographs

1996 'To Vima' Centerfold

1996 'Kathimerini' week’s highlights, Eleni Petasi

1996 'House & Quality Living' Where art flourishes

1991 'Ta Nea' Haris Kambouridis

1991 'Living' Dora Rogan

1991 'ELLE' Anna Riga

1991 'Ikones' EVA, Kyveli Zahariou

1991 'Tahydromos' Anastasia Zenakou

1991 'Kathimerini' Eleni Petasi

1990 'New Voices', Catalogue essay by April Kingsley

1990 'American Photography VI', Booth- Clibborn/Rizzoli Intern.

1987 'Prosopa', Angelos Droulias

1985 'American Photography I', Booth-Clibborn/Harry Abrams

1985 'The Athenian', Elizabeth Herring

1985 'Tachydromos' Aglaia Kremezi (also 1982, 1984)

1985 'To Vima' Centerfold

1984 'Kathimerini', Maria Karavia

1984 'Eikastika', Olga Bati

1984 'Gyneka', Lia Papaefstratiou

1983 'Kathimerini', Dora Rogan

1982 'Eikastika', Olga Ioannou

1982 'Mesimvrini', Kitsa Bontzou

1981 'Greek Accent', Angie Peteris

1980 'PRINT' magazine, profile

PUBLICATIONS /BOOKS THAT INCLUDE WORKS BY ARTIST

2000 Modern Odysseys: Modern Greek American Artists

1999 Melissa Artist Reference Dictionary

1991 Ellis Island: Chermayeff/Macmillan

1991 Manhattan / Mus. of the City of NY

1991 The Photographed Cat / Doubleday

1990 American Photography I / H. Abrams

1985 American Photography VI / Rizzoli International

1984 White by Design/Stuart Tab.& Chang P.5

Artist’s TALKS / LECTURES

2006 School of Visual Arts New York, Artists Talk on Art

2002 New York Studio School Artist Lecture series

2000 ISAMA 2000 University of Albany, New York, On her work

International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture

1998 P.W.P Fashion Institute of Technology, NY On her work

1997 Camera Club of NY On her work

1994 P.W.P Nikon House NY On her work

TEACHING

New School University / Parson’s School for Design 1994 “Directed Projects” 

An advanced course focusing on personal expression.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Allentown Art Museum

Columbia University Art Properties

MoMA Archives

Imago Mundi 

EMST National Museum of Contemporary Arts, Athens

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

Athens College

The Goulandris Museum of Natural History (commission)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Ellis Island Museum

NYNEX

Warner Communications

Lucent Technologies

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Dakis Ioannou

Yerassinos Yianopoulos

Ektoras Binikos

Athanasiadis

Anthi Doxiadis

Kali Doxiades

Petros Sabatacakis

Florika Kyriakopoulos

Gregoris Papadimitriou

Zaharias Portalakis

Marcuse Pfeiffer

Ileanna Tounta

Alexandra Vogiazidis

Peggy Zoumboulakis

Michalis Fotiades

Zacharias Portalakis

Mpitsiou

Nicos Vernicos

Mamidakis Hotels

Other private collections.

Eleni Mylonas

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