Ilias Koen was born in Athens in 1977. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He continued his studies and graduated in 2005 with an M.F.A. from MFA-Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts. He maintains a multidisciplinary practice, working predominately in drawing, software, and ceramics.

EDUCATION

2005, Masters of Fine Arts in Computer Arts, School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2002, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

EXHIBITION

2022

ΕΙΔΥΛΛΙΑ ΟΔΟΣ / Eidyllia Οdos, Technopolis City of Athens, Group Show curated by Maria Maragkou. (catalogue)

Metanoia, International Fine Arts Consortium, Athens, Group Show

The LandScape Show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Group Show

Ceramic Art: painting and sculpture&quot, MON COIN Studio greek contemporary ceramics art, Athens

ΕΙΔΥΛΛΙΑ ΟΔΟΣ / Eidyllia Οdos, Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete.

2021

Mr Robinson Crusoe stayed at home, Benaki Museum, Athens, Group Show curated by Polina Cosmidaki & Kostis Velonis. (catalogue)

I can see your house from here, Haus N Athen, Group Show.

Mötley Crew, Triantaros Public School, Tinos, Greece, curated by Margarita Myrogianni.

2019

Hardware, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece

The Still–Life Show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group Show

 Art Athina Fair, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2018

Implosión: fragmentos y posibilidades, Diagonal, San Jose, Puerto Rico

2017

The Library Show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group Show

Trans-allegoria: in between words, visuals and their opposites, 2017 Mykonos Bienalle, Mykonos, Greece, Group Show

FACE TO PHASE, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA)—Pireos Street (“Nikos Kessanlis” Exhibition Hall), curated by Tzeni Argyriou and Vassilis Gerodimos, Athens, Greece

Trans-allegoria: in between words, visuals and their opposites, curated by Lydia

Andrioti, IFAC Athina, Athens, Greece, Group Show

Conditions of Production, curated by Ilias Koen and Stella Baraklianou, Eleftheria

Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group Show

1+9, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group Show

2016

Artists’ Cards, Elika Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group show

Art Athina Fair, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Booth A3, Athens, Greece

Asthenia, ROMANZO, Greece, group show,

Modular Modules Mode, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group show

Summer Show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group show

2015

Access Art 2015, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY, Group show

Solo show, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece

2014

Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, Greece, Group show

2013

For & About: Art & Reactions to Superstorm Sandy, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery,

Brooklyn, NY, Group Show (catalogue)

ReMap 4, Independent Projects, Kypseli fanzine, 28 Keramikou Street, Athens, Greece, Group show

2010

Hot Harvest, The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, New York, NY, curated by J.

Kim, R. Ostrow and M. Wright, Group show (catalogue), Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), New York

Paradiso Contrapasso, Observatory, Brooklyn, New York, Group show

Robert Blackburn PrintMaking Workshop Showcase, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY, Group show

Piraeus Tower 2010 - Changing the Face/Façades Reformation , Architectural

competition Piraeus Tower 2010, Athens, Greece (catalogue)

(Un)Natural Histories: Animation and Automata Influenced by Science, Nature, and Technology, Morbid Anatomy, Observatory, 543 Union Street, Brooklyn, New

York, NY

2006

Performthemedia, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Group show

Circuits #2, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center, New York, NY, Group show

Reconstructing Photography, Westside Gallery 141, New York, NY, curated by

Richard Brooks, Group show

2005

MFA-CA Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY, curated by Russet Lederman

2003

SOLUS LOCUS: an art experiment, group show, Gallery Gazonrouge, Athens,

Greece

2002

Aesthesis", group show, Athens, Greece, curated by Marina Fokidi

SUBURBIA – The vast tracts of the Athenian Suburbs, workshop curated by Nikos

kazeros and Pavlos Lefas (catalogue)

2001

FILOPAPPOU HILL: BLACK BOX., group show, Filopapou hill, Athens, Greece

1998, Gallery 7, Athens, Greece, Group show

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Sundaymorning@ekwc, Europees Keramisch werkcentrum, Oisterwijk,

Netherlands, August - November, 2016

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, “New Materiality” Artist in Residence, Banff

Centre, Canada, January 12 - February 12, 2016