Ektoras Binikos

Education and activities

Biography

Ektoras Binikos is an artist living in NYC. He was born in Greece in the island of Ikaria and was educated in Athens.
He received his degree in Film Direction from the Greek Film Institute (Lykourgos Stavrakos). After coming to New York, he furthered his studies at the New School University in Graphic Design/ Electronic Publishing as well as Video Production, and at Cooper Union in drawing & collages. Has exhibited his multi-media work in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. His work incorporates disparate elements, from high art, to cinema, to comics, to politics, to conceptual art. Binikos' work has been published in the 2007 annual issue of Artworld Digest magazine. The Fall of 07 participated in Performa 07, the biannual event that takes place in NYC, with "Life Exchange" a project run by Wooloo productions, a Berlin-based art colective. In June of 2009 participated in the screening of "Flunking Calculus" with his videos "Zero" (approximation 1 & 2) at the Hyde Park Art Center/Chicago/IL.
This year is participating with some of his video works in the Human Emotion Project. An international traveling show, generated by Alison Williams of South Africa, which invites international artists using film/video to interpret human emotion visually for global screenings.
He is also one of the founding members of the The CORPUS COLLECTIVE an international artists collective, that was established and is based in NYC.
http://www.youtube.com/user/corpuscollective.
Binikos’ work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library, as well as part of various private collections.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITS

*1998 TAG Project Space, 24 West 57 Street, suite 306, New York City.
April 23 - May 16 "WITH HONEY AND ASHES"

GROUP EXHIBITS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

* 2010- A BOOK ABOUT DEATH “Um livro sobre a Morte”-MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - Avenida Europa, 218 – Jardim Europa
CEP 01449 000 – São Paulo – Brasil. February 3- February 28.

*2009 - A BOOK ABOUT DEATH - QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART, NYC. November 1 - November 15.

*2009 - A BOOK ABOUT DEATH - OTIS College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. October 11 - October 31.

*2009 HEP (Human Emotion Project) at Optica Festival Gijón , Spain.
29, 30, 31 of October.

* 2009 HEP Portugal - October 20-25 curated by Alberto Guerreiro at Jose Malhoa Museum(State Museum) - Caldas-da-Rainha.

*2009 HEP at Optica Festival Madrid, Spain.
14, 15, 16 , 17 of October

*2009 HEP (Human Emotion Project) Copenhagen, Denmark.
October 14-16 - Valby Kulturhus.

* 2009 HEP at Optica Festival Paris, France.
September 23-26
At Collège d'Espagne / Cité Universitaire Internationale, sala Luis Bunuel.

*2009 HEP (Human Emotion Project) at Optica Festival, Cordoba Spain.
September 10 - 12, Espacio 3 - Filmoteca de Andalucia.

*2009 PAN-DEMONIUM -AC Institute (Direct Chapel)
(Corpus Collective)
547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor, NYC, NY.
September 3- October 10

*2009 - A BOOK ABOUT DEATH: AN UNBOUND BOOK ON THE SUBJECT OF DEATH
At: Emily Harvey Foundation 537 Broadway New York City.
September 10 - September 22

*2009 Hyde Park Art Center/Chicago/IL.
June 18 "Flunking Calculus"

*2009 HEP- PORTUGAL (Human emotions Project)
May 16-20 “Ceramic Museum” (State Museum) - curated by Alberto Guerreiro.

*2009 HEP- SPAIN (Human Emotions Project)
April 17 – 26 "LaSala" Cigüñuela Spain - curated by Debbie Douez

*2008 Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding.
"Rebranding with (in) Flatiron" A Corpus collective project.
Wooloo Productions.
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/ the New School University.
October 15th, 2008 to January 30th, 2009.

*2008 TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival Prague, Czech Republic.
"Rebranding with (in) Flatiron" A Corpus Collective project.
Wooloo productions.
25th of September to 15 October, 2008.

*2008 New Life Shop Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
"New Life Visual"
February 11th - March 1st

*2007 Gallery 138 "Bridge Art Fair"
Miami, Florida
December 6th - 9th

*2007 "Life Exchange"
Performa 07, NYC, - Wooloo productions.
October 31 - November 6

*2007 Winkleman Gallery,673 West 27Th Street, New York City, NY, 1ooo1.
"The Seed Project"
October 25 - June 08.

*2005 Gallery 138, 138 west 17th Street, New York City.
June 8 - June 22, "RAPSIDA"
(An Exhibition and silent Auction Benefiting AIDS education in Rwanda.)

*2005 Gallery 138, 138 west 17th Street, New York City.
February 3 - March 4, "DESIRE SUBMERGED INTO EARTH"

*2003 Gallery 138, 138 West 17th Street, New York City.
November 19 - December 19, "RAPTURE"

*2002 Gallery 138, at the Annex, 601 west 26 Th Street, 14 Th fl. New York
November 6 - December 12 "DESIRE AND THE HURRICANE"

*2002 Gallery 138, 138 West 17th street, New York City.
April 17 - May 16 "THE NATURE OF THINGS"

*2002 Goliath Visual Space, 117 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, New York
March 9 - 16 "BENADDICTION"

*2000 Goliath Visual Space, 117 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn, New York
June 10 - 24 "PARTS"

*2000 The Sharjah Arts Museum, United Arab Emirates.
January 1 - 31 INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL.

*1997 Texas National SFA Gallery, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX

Announcements

A Review by the "Real Time" Magazine of April-May issue, on Wooloo production's life exchange , which I participated, part of Performa 07, November 07, NYC.

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/84/8959

Publications

Real Time April- May 2008
Performance
"Life swapping freefall"
Mary paterson reports on wooloo production’s life exchange

Sunday/New York Post
"Life swap" December 2007

Cheers Magazine
"Art in a Glass" May 2007

Artworld Digest magazine
The seed project - January 2007

Paper magazine
A profile (The 9th annual-beautiful people issue) - April 2006

My favourites

Artist

Murcel Duchamp,Goya, Vermeer, Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Bob Gobber, Marina Abramovic, Rebecca Horn, Wolfgang laib, Anselm Kiefer, Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge....

Movie

"Stalker" By Andrei Tarkovsky and all his other movies, Bresson, Dryer, Godard, Passolini (Theorima), Alexander Sokurov, Theo Angelopoulos (Megalexandros), Benuel, Alain Renais, Sergei Paradjanov (The color of Pomegranates)....

Literature

"Ulysses" By James Joyce, Margaret Yourcenal (Memoirs of Hadrian), Dostoyevski, Kafka, Proust, Italo calvino, Tanizaki, Kavafis, Seferis...

Music

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Olivier Messiaen,Bach, Schubert, Debussy, Oliveros,Sigur Ros, Radiohead....

Interests

Art, Art, traveling, photography, music, cocktails, wine food, nature...