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 (Lygourgos 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 group shows throughout the United States. His work incorporates disparate elements, from high art, to cinema, to comics, to politics, etc. Binikos' work has been published in the 2007 annual issue of Artworld Digest magazine. This past Fall 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.

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

*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
April 11 - May 17

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...