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| Greece | 14 |
| China | 1 |
| Switzerland | 1 |
Biography: 
1930 Born in Thessaloniki (GR)
He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens with Yannis Moralis and at the same worked in the studios of N. Nikolaou and Y. Spiropoulos. In 1955 he settled in Rome where he worked until 1960. He then moved to Paris where he lived until 1981 when he returned to Athens. He was a founder of the “mec art” movement. In 1982 he was appointed Professor of the School of Fine Arts in Athens and was its Dean from 1992 to 1996. He has participated in significant one-person and group exhibitions in various museums and galleries in Greece and abroad. In 1988 he represented Greece in the Venice Biennale.
AWARDS
First Prize: Amedeo Modigliani, 1959, Italy.
Honorable Mention: Biennale de Sao Paolo, 1961, Brazil.
Lissone Prize, Jeune Peinture Internationale, 1961, Italy.
Honorable Mention: Prix Europe, 1962, Belgium.
Second Prize: Chocquet Prize, 1963, France.
Mention: Biennale de Jeunes, 1963, France.
Silver Medal: Prix Europe, 1969, Belgium.
Second Prize: Prix Europe, 1971, Belgium.
First Prize: Conseil Regional, Salon de Montrouge, 1997, France.
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4.7.2004 Died in Athína (GR)
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Public exhibitions 21
Solo shows 2
2004
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| Nikos Kessanlis - Works from 1956 to 1958 - Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
1997
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| Nikos Kessanlis Retrospective Exhibition - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
Group shows 19
2009
2007
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| Eclectic affinities among european artists - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
2006
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| The Alpha Bank Collection - Greek Art since 1920 - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Aspects of Modernism - Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
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| Aspects of Modernism - Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki |
2005
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| Anthropography III - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
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| Odyssey: Greek Art from the Last Fifty Years - Galerie Gmurzynska - Zürich, Zurich |
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| A Glance at Greek Postwar Art - Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki |
2004
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| When Modernism was Tomorrow - Group show - Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
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| In our image, after our likeness - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
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| Metamorphoses of the Body - Group show - Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
2003
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| Selections of the Kalfayan Galleries (group show) - Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki |
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| Selections of the KALFAYAN GALLERY - Group Show - Kalfayan Galleries, Athens |
2002
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| Unit C - Travelling through Painting - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
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| Greek Art of the 20th Century - Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki |
1999
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| P+P=D : new (greek) art from the seventies and eighties - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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Greece
| | Alpha Delta - AD Gallery, Athens
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| | Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki
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| | Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki
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Public collections 3
Greece
| | National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens
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| | MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
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