• Ioannis Lassithiotakis

    Painter

Biographical note​

He was born in Crete in 1956. ​

He studied painting in

Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

He lives in Athens.

​​Individual exhibitions​​

1981 Dada Art Gallery, Athens

​​​1983 Dada Art Gallery, Athens

1985 Dada Art Gallery, Athens

1989 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens

1990 Stavrakakis Gallery, Heraklion

1991 Epikentro Gallery, Patra

1993 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens

1996 Medousa Art Gallery- Medousa +1, ​

Athens | Tzamia Cristalla  Gallery, Chania

1997 Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki

1998 Medousa Art Gallery, Athens  Kleiner Raum :Clasing- Gallery Etage, Münster

1999 Art Forum-Vilka Gallery, Thessaloniki

2000 Tzamia Cristalla  Gallery, Chania

2001 Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens |Art Forum- Vilka Gallery, Thessaloniki

2002 Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens

2003 Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens

2005 Athens Art Gallery, Athens |Agathi Gallery (Art Athina), Athens

2006 Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki

2007 Athens Art Gallery, Athens​

2008 Art Gallery, Alexanroupoli | ​Elementary school of Falatados, Tinos island

2009 TIF-Pavilion 6 (44th Dimitria), Thessaloniki ​

2011 Apocalypse Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2012 Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens​, curator the museum, management by Alexandra Ghika

2013 Astrolavos gallery, Athens

2017 Lefa municipal gallery, curator E. Gerolymatou

2018 dlgallery Athens​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Group exhibitions 

1984 “Lassithiotakis- Adamakos- Vordoni-”, Athens College, Athens​ 

1985 “Eikastika”, Municipal Art Centre of Athens, Athens | “The Hellenic Dimension”, Vorres Collection, Chicago, USA​ 

1986 “2nd Biennale of Young Artists from the Mediterranean”, Thessaloniki | “Lassithiotakis- Marouda- Tsakiris”, Epipeda Art Gallery, Athens- PanselinosArt Gallery, Thessaloniki | “Kallidromio II”, Athens | “Pieridis Collection” (Dimitria  86), Thessaloniki 

1987 “Antipodes -Young Greek Artists”, Modern Art Museum, Melbourne,Australia​

1989 “Body and Spirit”, Zappeion Megaron, Athens (curator: N. Rogan) 

1996 “Osaka Triennale”, Osaka, Japan | “Astir of Paros” (organized byMedousa Art Gallery), Paros island  

1997 “Art Athina 5”, Medousa Art Gallery | “Argo, Mythical Voyages”, SpirerMansion, Volos (curator: A. Schina) | “Focus of the Gaze”, Headquarter of the WEU, Brussels (curator: A. Schina)  

1998 “With the Lyre and the Fiddlebow”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon (curator: M. Maragou) | “Iakynthia   98”, Anogia, Crete | “Art Athina 6”, Medousa Art Gallery | “Aischyleia 98”, Eleusis (curator: L.Kokkini) | “The new collection”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki | “Under Cover- Revelations- Editions”, Pretoria Art Museum,South Africa​ 

1999 “4th Biennale of Sarjah” [2nd Award], U.A. Emirates (curator:A.Schina) | “ At the crossroad of Crete”, Tzamia  Cristalla Art Gallery, Chania, Crete(curator: P. Kounenaki) | “Ideas and Idols”, Campus Art &Science, Athens(curator: F. Tzanetoulakou) 

2001 “Visions and Bonds”, Libety’s Park Art Centre, Athens (curator: H. Kambouridis) | “Rupture- Convergence, Beltsios Collection”, Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Trikala (curator: M. Stefanidis)  

2002 “People- Faces- Figures”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon (curator: M. Maragou) | “90 years from the liberation of the N.Aegean ”, Ministry of the Aegean, Mytilini 

2003 “Oikade”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon – Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre, Athens (curator: M. Maragou) | “Coup de Coeur”,Athens Art Gallery (curator: E. Alexaki) | “Olympic Spirit and Contemporary Greek Art”, Municipal Gallery of Chania, Crete- M.M.C.A., Thessaloniki- Giorgio de Chirico Cultural Centre, Volos (curator: P. Kounenaki)  

2004 “Olympic Spirit and Contemporary Greek Art”, Athens Municipal Cultural Centre (curator: P. Kounenaki) | “Love Art, Love the World”, Andronikos Art Gallery, Mykonos (curator : E. Anthopoulou) | “The Olympic Idea in the Sky”, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens | “Gallery Walk”, Agathi Gallery, Athens | “Athens, city of Games”, Technopolis, Athens | “ Mickey meets Art”, Hellenic American Union, Athens | “Missal”, Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens (curator: I. Criticou)  

2006 “Kites”, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens- European Parliament Headquarters, Brussels |“Panorama of Art”, M.C.A, Thessaloniki | “Dialogues”, M.M.C.A.-Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki | “There was once Penelope Delta”, AthensCollege (curator: I. Criticou) | “Calendar of National Stationary Office”, Agathi Gallery, Athens​ 

2007 Publication of a monograph on his entire ouevre by “Ta nea” newspaper, distributed nationally as part of the series of “Contemporary Greek Painters” | “Native Place”, Benaki Museum, Athens ( curator: I. Criticou)

2008 “Art Athina”, Astrolavos Gallery, Tsatsis Projects Gallery  

2009 “Ambassadors of Contemporary Greek Art- Three Generations of painters”, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne (curatorship and creative concept: Alexandra Ghika)

2009 “35 visual artists for Democracy”, Zappeion Megaron, Athens (curator: T. Mavrotas)

2010 “Tracing Istanbul”, Greek Embassy –Theological School of Halki,Istanbul | Technopolis, Athens (curator: I. Criticou)

2011 “Art Athina”, Astrolavos Gallery | “Time aspects”, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethymnon(curator: M. Maragou) | “20×20”, Athinais, Athens (curator:T.Mavrotas) 

2013 «To Tinos», Cultural Foundation of Tinos (curator: C. Marinos) | «The maelstrom of art and history», Chapel Renier, Chania (curator: P. Kounenaki)

2014 «Painting II», Frisira Museum, Athens | «Art Athina», Astrolavos gallery, «Statement made», (curator: A. Potamianou).​

2015 «Art Athina», Astrolavos gallery.

2016  «Three generations of Greek painting, municipal gallery of Athens,/ “I dared to praise …” Eleftherios Venizelos 80 years after his death “(curator Louisa Karapidakis), Basilica of St. Mark, Heraklion, Crete

2017 «100 years after the October Revolution» , State museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki,(curator: Yiannis Bolis),/, Art Athina,  Astrolavos gallery,/ Back to Athens, Gateway to Freedom, Cheap art gallery,( curator Thalia Vrachopoulos), /Reminders, Spiliotopoulos Warehouse, Historical Triangle, Athens, (curator G. Georgakopoulos).  «100 years after the October Revolution» , State museum of Contemporary Art, Athens,  (curator: Yiannis Bolis).

2018 Art Athina, Ikastikos kIklos./ Back to basics, Enia gallery, (curator A, Potamianou), /Conciousness, Alfa Gallery Miami.

2019   ONYX  Alfa gallery Miami.

2019   dr,julious I ap gallery ,  PV for century celebration of the Bauhaus on its 100th, Berlin.

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