AVAYIANOU RENA
Was born in Athens, where she still lives and works.
Εducation: 1993-1998 she studied painting in Fine Arts School of Athens under the supervision of prof. D.Kokkinidis and engraving under the supervision of prof. G.Milios. She gratued in 1999.
1984-1989 she studied Architecture at the Aristoteles university of Thessaloniki. She gratued in 1991.
1993 She followed a six mounth duration post-graduate seminar organised by the Greek centre of Design(EOMMEX)
Languages:English, French
Employment History
Since the year 2000 she has been appointed as Teacher of Painting and Visual Arts in the Secondary Education( Gymnasium and Lyceum).
Between the years 1997-2000 as instructor of Fine Arts in private educational organizations.
Between the years 1989-1997 she has been employed as an architect and as industrial designer in the private and public sector.
She has provided original art work for the band Sigmatropic: » Ours at Least,(March 2007) and «Dark outside» (September 2007) as well as posters of the same band.
Personal Exhibitions
2011 ‘Sacred Panic’, Gallery «Art-Zone 42», Athens.
2008 «Places patellels», Gallery «Ersi», Athens.
2003 Cultural centre «Polytecneio», Aigio, Greece.
2002 «Traces of a trip’, Gallery «Epochs», Athens.
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 Art Athina, Painting with the topic »Eden Interrupted», gallery Art- zone 42, Athens.
Painting with the topic »Happy end?», gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «The fairytailes of brothers Grimm», Evgenidis foundation, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Xristmas fine artsIV «, gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Art bank», «Orizintas gegonoton», Athens.
ARTAZ IV, «Texnopolis», Athens.
Painting with the topic «Human, Colour, Iron 5», in the Shipyard Repair Zone of Perama, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Greek- Tourkish friendship, curator Iris Kritikou, city hall Palaiou Falirou, Athens.
Painting with the topic » Para thin alos», »Ermoupoli», Festival Syros civilation.
2012 Painting with the topic »My name is Red», gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
2o festival Internazionale dell’Arte per il dialogo e la Pace, Iraq presso, Rome.
Painting with the topic «Portrait’ Cultural centre «Giorgio de Chirico» , Volos
Spring Exhibition, gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Origin female», gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Xristmas fine arts», gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Crisis? What crisis!!! curator prof. Y. Kolokotronis, Centre of arts Kastela.
2011 International art festival and competition, Spoleto, Italy. Price in painting.
Painting with the topic «Εat it», gallery Art-Prisma, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Human, Colour, Iron 4″, in the shipyard Repair Zone of Perama, Athens.
Painting, Hotel Dionyssos, curator Natassa Thomakou, Larissa, Greece.
2010 Painting , gallery Kappatos, Athens.
International Exibition »L’art en Capital», Salon d’Independantes», Grand Palais, Paris
Painting with the topic «Sea», curator Natassa Thomakou, Congressing centre of Xalchi, Greece.
Painting with the topic «Environment», gallery «Art-Prisma», Athens.
Painting with the topic «Human, Colour, Iron 3», in the shipyard Repair Zone of Perama, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Universal Poverty» organised by UNESCO, Cultural centre of Athens «Technopolis».
Painting with the topic «Eros-Anteros», gallery Ersi, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Neighbourhoods with Past and Future», gallery Ersi, Athens.
2009 Painting with the topic «The human figure in Art», Cultural centre of Athens «Technopolis», Athens.
Painting with the topic «Optima», curator Athena Schina, gallery «Art- zone 42», Athens.
Painting with the topic «Bon voyage», gallery K-Art, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Erotica», gallery Spilioty multi space Bacaro, Ahens.
Painting with the topic «Instructions for recycling», Cultural centre of Athens «Melina», Athens.
2008 Painting with the topic «Public- Private space», gallery Ersi, Athens.
Painting with the topic «The Present», gallery Spilioti multi-space Bacaro, Athens.
Painting with the topic «Travel in the Mediterranean», Marcello’s tower, Aegina, Greece.
Painting with the topic «The nude in modern times», gallery «Ersi’, Athens.
2007 Painting with the topic «The woman», Art gallery «Psychari 36″, Athens.
Painting based on George Seferis’ poetry, Art Gallery » Psychari 36′, Athens.
2006 Painting based on George Seferis’ poetry, Archaelogical Museum of Aigio, Greece.
2005 Installation, slides, photos in Avissinias sqare/bar Inoteca, Athens.
2004 Painting, gallery «Terra Artis», Dro, Italy.
2003 Painting, cultural centre of Volos «De Chirico», Volos, Greece.
2002 Painting, «Contemporary Greek Painters», National Museum of Art, Cluz, Romania.
Painting with the topic «Ecofestival», Cultural Centre of Egaleo, Athens.
2001 Painting, gallery «Millenium», Patra, Greece.
Painting, gallery «Mylos», Thessaloniki.
2000 Painting, gallery «Wold of Fine Arts», New York.
Painting, gallery «Factory», School of Fine Arts, Athens.
1997 Painting with the topic «The Mystery of Dilos», hotel Belvedere, Mykonos, Greece.
Reviews-Distinctions (selection)
2011 Who is who in Greece.2011 Price of Painting in Spoleto International Festival Art («dei due mondi), Italy.
2011 International Dictinnary of painting, World wilde Art books, 2011.
2008 Cultural Review «The Word», issue No. 195: presentation-critic of her painting by critic and art historian Athena Schina.
2000 Magasin of Interior Design «Living», issue No.104: presentation-critic of her painting from critic and art historian Dora Iliopoulou- Rogan.
1992 Magazine of Art and Design «Book» :presentation of her industrial designs that she has made at Metsovon, Greece.
Paintings of her belong to public collections and to privates collections in Greece, Italy,Romania, Germany, New York.
Last modified: 11/11/2013