Efi Spilioti: 2016

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She was born in Cephalonia. She is a graduate of Harokopio University, Athens, and of the Athens Technological

Institute (Doxiadis School), where she studied Interior Decoration and Graphic Arts with A. Tassos,

Dekoulakos, Mytaras, Zoumboulakis etc.

Selection from over thirty personal shows: 1984 Ores Gallery, Athens. 1997 Emeis Gallery, Athens. 1998-

2015 Sixteen solo shows at PEMACHRINA, Cephalonia. 1999 Titanium Gallery, Athens. 2000 Honorary

Exhibition, Kefalos, Argostoli. 2008 Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens.

Selection from over fifty group shows in Greece and internationally: 1985-1986, 1990-1991 ‘Contemporary

Greek Ceramists’, City of Athens Cultural Centre, Athens. 1986, 1988, 1989‘Panionian Fine Arts Exhibition’,

Argostoli. 1989-1991, 1993 Trosa Kvarn Gallery, Stockholm. 1990 Zum Oberen Schwanen Gallery, Zurich.

2001 ‘Month of Fine Arts’, Technopolis, Athens. 2002 ‘Cultural Olympiad-50th Anniversary of the International

Academy of Ceramics’, School of Fine Arts, Athens. 2004‘Cultural Olympiad-6 Ceramists Create

for Maroussi’, Maroussi, Athens. 2010‘Ceramic Conversations’, Archaeological Museum of Aegina, Aegina.

Distinctions: 1969 Third Prize and two Honourable Mentions for the 34th Thessaloniki International Fair

poster. 2003 Third Prize for Art Intervention for Ano Patissia Athens Metro Station.

In 1983 she was commissioned by the Prefecture of Cephalonia and Ithaca to create the artistic gifts offered

to the Ministers of Economy and Finance of the EEC during the Informal Meeting of Ecofin, Cephalonia.

She has created two personal showrooms in Fiskardo and Argostoli, Cephalonia, 1978-1993. She has

illustrated six Greek mythology books for children, A myth, A name, Ellinika Grammata Editions 2001; she

has published the album 28 Sea Goddesses, Fytrakis Editions 2006, with her texts and photographed works.

Her work «18 Sea Goddesses» was acquired by the Municipality of Argostoli, 2004.

She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, eight times elected member of the Chamber’s

Selection and Evaluation Committee, member of the Chamber’s Cultural Events Committee and the

Committee on 1%. A founding member of the Association of Ceramic Artists of Greece. She has curated

art exhibitions, and has participated in conference organisation with the Chamber of Fine Arts of

Greece. She has participated in conferences on art and mythology. Her works are included in many private

collections in Greece and abroad.