Vassilis Selimas (b.1983) is an artist and a figurative painter based in Athens, Greece. He studied painting at the School of fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003-2008). His works describe his personal history with realistic and symbolic elements.

Solo exhibitions

2019 Reality, Ikastikos Kiklos Dl, Athens
2015 Building one, Vogiatzoglou Art Space, Athens-N.Ionia (curator Eleni Kipreou)
2013 Nostalgists, Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens

Projects

2019 Animation Workshop, Astypalaia, Greece / collaboration with the Non-profit organization Agoni Grammi Gonimi
2018 Bathtub Memory Project, Munich Biennale, Munich
/ production by Munich Biennale in co production with Onassis Cultural Center
2016 Nio, one little story, Studio Project, Athens

Prizes

2017 EVGE  awards, Merit for the book, Nio,one little story, Athens

Group exhibitions

2020  Erotica, Skoufa Gallery, Athens
2020  Marginalia gallery, Cyprus
2020  At the Studio, Hellenic American Union, Athens / curators Ira Papapostolou, Manos Spanos
2019 Antropometers, Marginalia Gallery, Cyprus
2019 Art Athina, Skoufa Gallery, Zappeion Mansion, Athens
2019 Quo Vadis – three painters, Fetihie Mosque, Nafpaktos
2019 Warming, E Art Gallery, Paros, Greece
2019 Still Alive, The Project Gallery, Athens / curators G.Bolis, A.Maganiotis
2019-2018  Three collectors, three seasons, Vogiatzoglou Gallery, N.Ionia, Athens  / curator M.Stefanidis
2018 Inland Athens, Mets Art Center, Athens / curator Nikos Vatopoulos
2018 Grayscale, Ikastikos Kiklos DL, Athens
2018-2017 Tribute to the Greek Poet G.Seferis, B.&M. Theoharakis Foundation, Athens / curator Takis Mavrotas
2017 Taking Roots, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Military Warehouse, Thessaloniki  / curator Orestis Andreadakis
2017 In my little childhood, Gennadius Library, Athens / curator Iris Kritikou
2017 Silent Night, Skoufa Gallery, Athens
2017 From the Interwar to Modernism: Little scenarios for Athens, Genessis Gallery, Athens
2015 Map of the new art, Imago Mundi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
2015 Art Athina, Kaplanon Galleries, Athens
2014 Art Athina-Platforms Project, Inside Stories-Simulacrum / curator Ira Papapostolou
2014 Painting today, Vogiatzoglou Gallery, Athens / curators Eleni Kypraiou, Christos Christofis
2014 Castles in the air, Mare Gallery, Chania, Crete / curator Sophia Mavroudis
2014 Hellenic American Union, Athens / curator Ira Papapostolou
2013 Shame/Here, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki / curator,Vassilis Amanatidis
2013 Incidents D’, collection of Antonis & Azia Hadjioannou, Syros, Greece
2013 Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens
2012 Salus Patriae, P & M Kidonieos Foundation, Andros, Greece / curator, Athena Schina
2012 Face to face, Frissiras Museum, Athens
2012 Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens
2011 Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens
2011 Gallery Apocalypse, Cyprus
2011 Kourd Gallery, Athens
2010 Tsatsis Projects, Artforum, Thessaloniki
2009 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2009 5th Biennale of Schools of Fine Arts, Crete, Athens
2008 Aggelon Vima Gallery, Athens / curator Regina Argyraki
2006 Novisart Festival, Novisad, Serbia

Theater

2019 Kapralos-First Steps, Director: Nikos Karageorgos, DIPETHE Agrinion, Scenography
2019 From Zero to infinity, Musical play based on “The Quartet for the End of Time” by Olivier Messiaen, Direction: Costas Chardas, Ivi Papathanasiou, Video projection/ Drawings
2018 Digenis Akritas,into the limits, Director: Sophia Karagianni, Poster Design, Neos Kosmos Theatre
2017 Little Pony, Director Sophia Karagianni, Theater 104, Sculpture
2013 I Know a star, Director: Maria Panidou, Thessaloniki Consert Hall, Scenography