Vassilis Vassili



Vasilis Vasili (Greek: Βασίλης Βασίλη), born in 1964 is a Greek contemporary visual artist working primarily in sculpture.

Career
Vasilis Vasili studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, from 1992 to 1997. In 1999, he won a scholarship from the Greek Foundation of Scholarships and the Onassis Foundation. In 2001, he received a Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, USA. From 2004 to 2013, Vasilis taught at the Technological Institution of Athens, Greece. From 2006 to 2008, he taught at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Western Macedonia in Florina, Greece. In 2013, Vasilis moved to Canada, where he currently resides.



Public art works
Vassili created permanent public art installations in the following places:
 * 1995- Konitsa, Greece
 * 1996- University of Patra, Greece
 * 1996- Iannena, Greece
 * 1996- Dreieih- Frankfurt, Germany
 * 2000- Lemesos, Cyprus
 * 2000- Kalamata, Greece
 * 2002- Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
 * 2004- Train Station Pefkakia, Athens, Greece
 * 2004- Dionyssos, Attica, Greece
 * 2006- Piraeus, Greece
 * 2006- Katerini, Greece
 * 2006- Antalya, Turkey
 * 2008- Aniksi Attica, Greece
 * 2011- Paros Island, Greece
 * 2011- Iannena, Greece
 * 2011- Polis Crysoxous, Cyprus
 * 2015- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
 * 2016- Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
 * 2016- Saranda, Albania
 * 2017- Ayia Napa, Cyprus
 * 2018- Herakleion Crete.
 * 2019- BenQ Foundation, Taiwan.
 * 2020- Uttarayan Art Foundation, Vadodara, India..
 * 2021- Sculpture Symposium, Serres, Greece.
 * 2022- International Sculpture Symposium, Municipality of Patras, Greece.
 * 2022- International Sculpture Symposium, Jualienne, France.
 * 2023- International Sculpture Symposium, Ambaji, India.
 * 2023- Sculpture Symposium, University of Western Macedonia, Florina, Greece.
 * 2024- International Sculpture Symposium, Riyadh, S. Arabia.

Exhibitions
Vassilis has had exhibitions at the following institutions: Burgerhaus, Dreieich, Frankfurt, Germany (1998); “Epoxes” Gallery, Athens, Greece (1998); Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA (2001); Titanium Gallery, Athens, Greece (2003); Titanium Gallery Athens Greece (2005); Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece (2008).

Selected group exhibitions include:
 * 1995- M. Merkouri Foundation, Athens, Greece
 * 1995- State Bank of Greece Athens, Greece
 * 1996- M. Merkouri Foundation Athens, Greece
 * 1997- National Gallery, Athens, Greece
 * 1997- Outdoor show, Pllaka, Athens, Greece
 * 1997- “Epoxes” Gallery, Athens, Greece
 * 1997- Outdoor show, Salonica, Greece
 * 1998- Global Stone Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden
 * 1998- Drawing show, Svetsingen, Germany
 * 1998- City Hall, Psyxiko, Athens, Greece
 * 2000- Destination Philadelphia, Convention Centre, Philadelphia, USA
 * 2001- Snapshots, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA
 * 2001- 5 into 1, Philadelphia Sculptors’ Show. Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, USA
 * 2001- Artower Agora, Athens, Greece
 * 2002-Wiesbaden, Germany
 * 2003- The Burnished Chariot, NewLondon, C.T, USA
 * 2003- Its Kale, Giannena, Greece
 * 2006- Gallery Crysa Katerini Greece
 * 2007- Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece
 * 2008- Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, Greece
 * 2009- Art Gallery Kaplanon Athens Greece
 * 2010- Art Space Gazi. Athens