Title

FAMILIAR

Year

2006

Material

Pencil and aquarelle on paper

Size

70cm x 100cm

Title

Geology

Year

2006

Material

Pencil and aquarelle on paper

Size

70cm x 100cm

Title

Captivity

Year

Material

Pencil and aquarelle on paper

Size

Curriculum vitae

Maria Zervou

Born in Athens 1977, lives and works in Amsterdam ( Holland ) and Athens ( Greece )

EDUCATION

2003-2005 MFA Program Sandberg Institute,Fine Art, Amsterdam , Holland

2000-2003 Gerrit Rietveld Academie,Fine Art / New Media and Enviroments, Amsterdam , Holland

1998 Minerva Academy , Fine Art / Drawing , Groningen , Holland

1995-2000 Athens School of Fine Arts , Greece (Painting)

1995: TEI school of design, Greece

SELECTED EXHIBITION

2007

Solo Show, ‘Fight', The Art Fortress centre for contemporary art, Vijfhuizen, Holland (upcoming)

Solo Show, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Center , Athens , Greece (upcoming)

Group show, Deiska Art Collection, Amsterdam , Holland (upcoming)

Group show, video screening, Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam , Holland

Solo show with Wouter Jansen, SAFE Art Space, Dalfsen, Holland

Group show, WTC Gallery, Rotterdam , Holland

2006

Solo show, ‘The red dress made her skin seem more pale more white', SMCS at 11(Stedelijk Museum Central Station at Club 11), Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Geology', Deiska Art Collection, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘AP Artists Awards' Bonnefanten Museum , Maastricht , Holland

Group show, ‘Kunstvlaai 6', Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘MRI', Center of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki , Greece

2005

Solo show, ‘If art must tell the truth, what is this truth?', Fournos Center of digital Art, Athens , Greece

Solo show, ‘Nudity', The Mobile Atelier (Rijksgebouwgienst), Apeldoorn , Holland

Group show, ‘Drawing Beauties', online show ( www.inhalexhale.org )

Group show, ‘Gold', Deiska Art Collection, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Let me hear your body talk', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘A mass of matter' ,Artspace Het Witte Huis, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Underline', Consortium Art Space, Amsterdam , Holland

2004:

Group show, '5 rooms', Kappatos gallery, Athens , Greece

Group show, ‘Plus 4', Deiska Art Collection, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Marbles' , Consortium Art space, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘AIAS International Artists Honor Prize', AKI, Enschede, Holland

Group show, ‘In the shape of an egg', de Ijsbreker, Utrecht , Holland

2003:

Group show, ‘RE/ACT Media Art Festival', Germany

Group show, ‘One Minute', Dutch Ministry of Culture, Holland

Group show, ‘De Een Minuten Nu', Netherlands Institute for Media Art ( Montevideo ), Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Rietveld one night stand' , Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘Noorderzon Video Festival', Groningen , Holland

Group show, ‘Parasite Paradise',Leidsche Rijn, Holland

Group show, Final exam exhibition, Rietveld Academy , Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, SKOR-INKIJK-public art (video projection in a glass window next to the Rijks Museum ), Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, Old Church Art Space, Amsterdam , Holland

2002:

Group show, ‘de een minuten awards'(selected video in the category "Best of the world"), Paradiso Club, Amsterdam , Holland

Group show, ‘One Minutes Biennial', Central Museum , Utrecht , Holland

2000:

Group show, ‘Graduation show', Ergostasio, Athens , Greece

Residencies

2007

Experimental Television Center , 5 days, New York , USA (upcoming)

The Art Fortress Centre, 2 months, Vijfhuizen, Holland (upcoming)

2005

The Mobile Atelier, 3 months, Appeldorn, Holland

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

2005

‘MRI', publication by Contemporary Art Center Thessaloniki

‘Diagnosis' Personal catalogue (texts by Katerina Gregos, Janneke Wesseling, Andrea Gilbert, Eva Fotiadi)

de Volkskrant Newspaper, text by Marina de Vries

‘Let me hear your body talk' text by Saskia Monshouwer

2004

Time Out Magazine, 25 Nov

Kathimerini newspaper, 14 Nov

Kathimerini newspaper, 20 Nov

‘Kloof', Magazine De verenigde Sandbergen, text by Janneke Wesseling

Magazine Punt, text by Monique van de Rhee

2003

‘Een zonnebril als bh en andere uitschieters' Het PAROOL Newspaper, text by Kees Keijer

‘Niets multimedia: eenvoudig klassiek', de Volkskrant Newspaper, text by Merlijn Schoonenboom

Rietveld end exam, text review by Maria Barnas

The Video :"How far is it going?" on SALTO TV

FUNDS AND AWARDS

-First Prize Winner of AP Artists Awards, Bonnefanten Museum , Maastricht , Holland , June 2006

-First Prize Winner of the AIAS International Artists Honor Prize, AKI, Enschede, Holland ,June 2004

-Mondriaan fund, project realisation and art catalogue publication, 2005

-Effi Miheli Fund, 2004

-Berlage Fund, 2003

-One Minutes Awards Nomination, 2003

-IKY fund (Greek national awards foundation), 2001