Theo Triantafyllidis

THEO TRIANTAFYLLIDIS

geboren / born 1988 in Athens, Greece
lebt und arbeitet / lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

AUSBILDUNG / EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, UCLA Design | Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Diploma of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2012

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN / SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
"Feral Metaverse", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany

2022
"Pheromone Spa", The Breeder, Athens, Greece
"The Metaverse and How We’ll Build it Together", Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2021
"Solo Exhibition, ON Faire Monde", Eglise des Trinitaires, Arles, France
"Radicalization Pipeline", Eduardo Secci, Milan, Italy

2020
"Ritual", Meredith Rosen Gallery (online), New York, NY, USA

2019
"Pastoral", Eduardo Secci, Florence, Italy

2018
"Role Play", Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2017
"Pretzel Twist", The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2016
"a mountain made to look like a person holding a knife", Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, New York, NY, USA

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (AUSWAHL) / GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023
"Surreal Futures", Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
"Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar", Honor Fraser Gallery, LA, USA
"Game Design Today", ZHDK Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
"Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art", Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

2022
"All Belongs To Time", Istanbul Archeology Museum, Turkey
"Grief and Pleasure", Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey
"Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art", Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
"All Art Is Virtual", Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, USA
"Naturally, Wild Futures", M Pavilion, Floriade Expo, Almere, Netherlands
"Among the Machines", Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
"Prepper Paradise", Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Netherlands
Art Brussels, Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, BE

2021
7th Athens Biennale: Eclipse, Athens, Greece
"Radical Gaming: Immersion Simulation Subversion", House of Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland
AR Biennale, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Germany
Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, USA
"Palais Augmente", Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
"School of Waters", Mediterranea 19 Biennale, San Marino, SM, USA
"Breadcrumbs: Art in the age of NFTism", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
"World on a Wire", Hyundai Motor Studio & Rhizome/New Museum, Seoul, South Korea
"The Artist Is Online", Koenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2020
"Escapism", Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2019
"Quid Est Veritas?", Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
"Forging The Gods", Transfer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
"CUBE: Virtual Natives – Sculpture", Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2018
"Be Water Again", Koraï Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
"Athens Biennale : ANTI-", TTT Main Venue, Athens, Greece
"Still Human", Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA

2017
Hyper Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Obscene Creatures", Resilient Terrains, Assembly Point, London, UK
"Unreal", NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany

SELECTED SCREENINGS, EVENTS & PERFOMANCES

2022
"Frankenstein: Lost Paradise", Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece
Group Presentation, Art Brussels with Nagel Draxler Gallery

2021
Group Presentation, Art Basel Miami with Nagel Draxler Gallery
"MIRA Festival", IDEAL, Barcelona, Spain
"Sculpture Piazza", Liste Art Fair with The Breeder Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
"New Infinity", Berliner Festspiele, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin, Germany
"Toxicfest, Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2020
"Anti-Gone", BFI London Film Festival, London, UK
"Anti-Gone", POP Montreal & Fondacion PHI, Canada
"Notes to Readiness", Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
"Anti-Gone", Sundance New Frontier Exhibition, Park City, UT, USA

2019
"Torino Film Festival", Protocinema Screening, Torino, Italy
"Ars Electronica", Animation Festival 2019, Linz, Switzerland
"Gender Bender", Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
"Anti-Gone", Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Of Our Own Making", Protocinema Screening, Sculpture Center, NY, USA
"Weasel Dance", Goethe Institute, Athens, Greece
"Staphyloculus", Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

2018
"Ars Electronica", Animation Festival 2018, Linz, Austria
"FIAC Projects", Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, France
"Robotanica", EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Group Presentation, Frieze NY with The Breeder Gallery

2017
"Game Art Festival", Hammer Museum, LA, CA, USA
Group Presentation, Frieze London with The Breeder

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2022
Are Buddhist Sutras Best Experienced As Video Games?;Jonathon Keats, Forbes Inc., New Jersey

Worldbuilding, Gaming and Art in the digital age; Mary Flanagan, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin

CyberArts 2022, Prix Ars Electronica; Ars Elektronica Art, Technology & Society, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin

Fact Residency: Theo Triantafyllidis; Henry Bruce-Jones, Fact, London

Among the Machines a show examining how humans interact with machines and non-human entities; Mark Westall, Fad Magazine, London

Theo Triantafyllidis: Live Simulations an essay Domenico Quaranta; Fabbula, Paris/Arles/Barcelona

What Can a Family of Simulated Orks in an Art Gallery Teach Us About Life in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse? A Lot, Actually; Taylor Dafoe, Artnet Worldwide Corporation, New York

2021
New Levels, New Devils “Radical Gaming: Immersion, Simulation, Subversio”; Colin Lang, Spike Art Magazine, Vienna/Berlin

The Artist is Online: Painting and Sculpture in the Postdigital Age; Sasha Bogojev, Juxtapoz, San Francisco

A Dance of Death in the Realm of Land Art; Nicholas O’Brien, Art in America, New York

2020
Theo Triantafyllidis: Multimedia Artist Interview; Jamin Warren; Kill Screen, Los Angeles

Theo Triantafyllidis at Eduardo Secci Contemporary Florence; Luca Pozzi, Art View

2019
Artificial Intelligence as a Godlike Tool for Experimentation; Angelica Frey; Hyperallergic

2018
A Psychedelic Chamber of Globalized Anxiety: Inside the Athens Biennale; Alice Bucknell; Elephant Art, London

Queering Ork aesthetics & existing beyond the virtual: Theo Triantafyllidis in conversation with Fait Holland; Fait Holland, AQNB**

Ways of (not) seeing, Structures of visibility in VR; Denise Thwaites, Artlink Magazine, Contemporary Art of Australia & Asia-Pacific, Adelaide

2017
Interview with Theo Triantafyllidis. From games to simulations and sculptures. The new refreshing relationship bred from a conversation between humans and technology.; Yusuke Shono; Massage Magazine, Tokyo

Theo Triantafyllides Sarget’s Daughters; Jeff Gibson, Artforum International, New York