Theo Triantafyllidis
Biography
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, DE
2022
Pheromone Spa, The Breeder, Athens, GR
The Metaverse and How We’ll Build it Together, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Solo Exhibition, ON Faire Monde, Eglise des Trinitaires, Arles, FR
Radicalization Pipeline, Eduardo Secci, Milan, IT
2020
Ritual, Meredith Rosen Gallery (online), New York, NY
2019
Pastoral, Eduardo Secci, Florence, IT
2018
Role Play, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Pretzel Twist, The Breeder, Athens, GR
2016
a mountain made to look like a person holding a knife, Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, New York, NY
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN (AUSWAHL) / GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Surreal Futures, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, DE
Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar, Honor Fraser Gallery, LA
Game Design Today, ZHDK Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, CH
Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art, Centre Pompidou-Metz, FR
2022
All Belongs To Time, Istanbul Archeology Museum, TR
Grief and Pleasure, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, TR
Worldbuilding: Gaming & Art, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
All Art Is Virtual, Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Naturally, Wild Futures, M Pavilion, Floriade Expo, Almere, NL
Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Prepper Paradise, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL
Art Brussels, Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, BE
2021
7th Athens Biennale: Eclipse, Athens, GR
Radical Gaming: Immersion Simulation Subversion, House of Electronic Arts Basel, CH
AR Biennale, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, DE
Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth Galerie Nagel Draxler, USA
Palais Augmente, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, FR
School of Waters, Mediterranea 19 Biennale, San Marino, SM
Breadcrumbs: Art in the age of NFTism, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, DE
World on a Wire, Hyundai Motor Studio & Rhizome/New Museum, Seoul, KR
The Artist Is Online, Koenig Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020
Escapism, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Quid Est Veritas?, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK
Forging The Gods, Transfer Gallery, New York, NY
CUBE: Virtual Natives – Sculpture, Roehrs & Boetsch Gallery, Zurich, CH
2018
Be Water Again, Koraï Space, Nicosia, CY
Athens Biennale : ANTI-, TTT Main Venue, Athens, GR
Still Human, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
2017
Hyper Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
Obscene Creatures, Resilient Terrains, Assembly Point, London, UK
Unreal, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, DE
SELECTED SCREENINGS, EVENTS & PERFOMANCES
2022
Frankenstein: Lost Paradise, Onassis Stegi, Athens, GR
Group Presentation, Art Brussels with Nagel Draxler Gallery
2021
Group Presentation, Art Basel Miami with Nagel Draxler Gallery
MIRA Festival, IDEAL, Barcelona, ES
Sculpture Piazza, Liste Art Fair with The Breeder Gallery, Basel, CH
New Infinity, Berliner Festspiele, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin, DE
Toxicfest, Tick Tack Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2020
Anti-Gone, BFI London Film Festival, London, UK
Anti-Gone, POP Montreal & Fondacion PHI, CA
Notes to Readiness, Onassis Foundation, Athens, GR
Anti-Gone, Sundance New Frontier Exhibition, Park City, UT
2019
Torino Film Festival, Protocinema Screening, Torino, IT
Ars Electronica, Animation Festival 2019, Linz, AU
Gender Bender, Locarno Film Festival, Locarno, CH
Anti-Gone, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Of Our Own Making, Protocinema Screening, Sculpture Center, NY
Weasel Dance, Goethe Institute, Athens, GR
Staphyloculus, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2018
Ars Electronica, Animation Festival 2018, Linz, AU
FIAC Projects, Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris, FR
Robotanica, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Group Presentation, Frieze NY with The Breeder Gallery
2017
Game Art Festival, Hammer Museum, LA, CA
Group Presentation, Frieze London with The Breeder
Bibliography
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