Biography

  • Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1944.
  • Present City of residence: Athens, Greece
  • Education: Greek education in Egypt
  • Languages: Greek, English, Arabic, French
  • Art Education: Visual Arts, Printmaking, Graphic Design and Typography (N. D. D.) At Maidstone College of Art, Kent, U.K. from 1961 to 1965 (today’s Kent Institute of Art and Design).
  • E-mail: meimarogloudespina@gmail.com / Website: www.meimaroglou.com
I express myself in a number of languages. As an artist I have been largely using words as part of my visual practice for many years. In fact, I consider typography as the extension to my artistic expression used both as form of information as well as (visual) image. I very often use appropriated words or whole paragraphs in an ''under-cover" way in order to express my hidden feelings and notions. Very often, sequences of images in my work (in a grid) are used to narrate a story or a situation as another way of using words.

WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES & LECTURES

2016 Art Brut / Outsider Art: “The Otherness as the Mirror of Identity” A Panel Discussion organized by the Scientific Society in Athens.

2013 “Panel Discussion sponsored by International Human Rights” at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) New York. Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos.

2006 Seminar at Pyramid Atlantic, Art Center in Maryland USA, during the artist’s residency in preparation for her show “The Flowers of Evil”.

2004 A week’s residency and seminar at the University of

Quito, Ecuador, organized by the faculty’s dept. of Theatre Studies.

2003 Residency at Columbia College Chicago and use of their digital dept. for the realization of the series “The ClearValley Incident 1615-2003” as the artist’s participation at the Human Rights Festival in May 2003.

1999 Residency at Pyramid Atlantic, Art Center in Maryland USA, for the collaborative edition of the artist-book“5 DEE(D)S+1 OWE”

1999 Workshop of Digital Images at Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Skopelos, GR.

1999 The Art of the News Lecture to a group of NYU Media Ecology students.

1999 Edition of 4 large digital prints based on Euripides’ Tragedy Bacchae in collaboration with Lionheart Gallery, Boston MA and Harvard University.

1999 Residency and workshop with “The use of New Technologies” at Richmond College, American International University, London, UK.

1997 Residency at Pyramid Atlantic, Art Center in Maryland USA, for the collaborative edition of the artist’s series» A Pack of Lies”.

1997 Lecture at the College of The Holy Cross, Worchester, MA, USA.

1997 Lecture and slides projection of the artist’s work at the Corcoran Gallery Washington DC, after an invitation from Pyramid Atlantic Center and the Crossing Over/Changing Places Consortium, Washington DC.

1994 Printmaking workshop and the use of New Technologies at Richmond College, American International University, London, UK.

 

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