Past
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Katelyn Ledford | Tired Illusions
Residency | Solo Show 16 Oct - 18 Nov 2024 Dio Horia Residency In Tired Illusions, Katelyn Ledford’s still life subjects trek the globe for authenticity and truthfulness in the 21st Century. Athens, 7 October 2024 — Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Katelyn Ledford’s solo exhibition Tired Illusions in Athens. The exhibition Tired Illusions includes paintings and three-dimensional works from the... Read more -
Joakim Ojanen & Sunna Hansdóttir | Kick Off
Two-Person Exhibition 3 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to present 'Kick Off', an exhibition of new works by Swedish artists Joakim Ojanen & Sunna Hansdóttir. The two-person show will open following the artists' residency in Greece (October 2022). The presentation comprises paintings, and ceramics by the two artists and marks the first time... Read more -
Xu Yang | Therefore I Am
Residency | Solo Show 4 May - 3 Jun 2022 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition of London-based Chinese artist Xu Yang, entitled 'Therefore I Am'. Xu’s first solo exhibition in Greece, May 4 – June 3, 2022, is focusing on the never-ending journey of identity, passion and power. The exhibition showcases the results of the... Read more -
Ally Rosenberg | Long Shadows
Residency 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2022 Dio Horia Residency The exhibition includes a new series of sculptures by Rosenberg, the entirety of which were created in Athens during his participation in Dio Horia’s residency program. Long Shadows is a darkly playful exploration of the body, through material, object, image and time. Each of Rosenberg’s sculptural works is seated on... Read more
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Laure Mary - Couégnias | Time Out
7 Oct - 7 Nov 2021 Dio Horia Residency Time Out, Mary-Couégnias observes, was set in motion with a moment in her Parisian studio when there was “a promise to meet and an invitation to escape”: Alone in this house, emptied since this morning of an imaginary visitor, I watch the solar prism of an invisible window. The heart... Read more -
Emily Ludwig Shaffer | An Island Refrain
29 Jul - 15 Sep 2021 Dio Horia Residency “Statues”, Shaffer observes, “are the remnants of cultures that embody so much of how a society sees its people”. The exhibition continues the artist's signature motif of archi-sculptural forms presented in surrealistic arrangements redolent with an air of de Chirico-esque spatial metaphysics updated from a perspective of a contemporary sensuality... Read more -
Javier Calleja | DROP BY DROP
1 - 31 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Borrowing the title from an expression that stands for slow and steady yet unstoppable progress, Drop By Drop continues the artist’s subtle but focused and persistent development of his practice. Tirelessly moving through the art world “step by step” and consistently making connections between his humble beginnings and the recent... Read more -
Pablo Benzo | Some Velvet Morning
Residency 12 Jun - 9 Jul 2021 Dio Horia Residency Chilean painter Pablo Benzo joins Dio Horia for a residency in Mykonos, leading into his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Some velvet morning includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s still life through cubism and abstraction series and opens on June 12th in the presence of... Read more
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Sam Friedman | Island
7 Oct - 12 Dec 2020 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Sam Friedman in Athens, after the artist’s residency and solo show in Mykonos in 2019. The exhibition opens on October 7 and ends on November 15, 2020. The exhibition ‘Island’ is composed entirely of new paintings that focus οn... Read more -
Amir H. Fallah | Worlds Apart
Residency 23 Aug - 30 Sep 2019 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Amir H. Fallah’s solo exhibition Worlds Apart in Mykonos. The exhibition Worlds Apart includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s series that explore the diverse immigrant community living in America. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece and the... Read more -
Joakim Ojanen | Island
Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency Swedish visual artist Joakim Ojanen returns to Dio Horia in Mykonos for his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Island is the result of the artist’s residency with Dio Horia (November 2018) and will be opening on July 25 in the presence of the artist. Joakim Ojanen’s artistic practice... Read more -
Sam Friedman | Days of Kindness
Residency 25 Jul - 23 Aug 2019 Dio Horia Residency American painter Sam Friedman returns to Dio Horia for a residency on Mykonos, leading into his first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition Days of Kindness includes paintings and works on paper from the artist’s Landscape Paintings series, and opens on July 25th in the presence of the artist. Sam... Read more
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Javier Calleja | Those Little Things
Residency 28 Jun - 24 Jul 2019 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia gallery is excited to announce Javier Calleja’s solo exhibition Those Little Things in Mykonos. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece and the result of his month-long residency at Dio Horia in June 2019. The exhibition is opening on June 28 at 20:00, in the presence... Read more -
Caroline Larsen | Cyclades
Residency 24 May - 25 Jun 2019 Dio Horia Residency In recent years, Larsen has developed a signature technique of applying thick layers of paint on the canvas, using not the traditional tools of a painter but by squeezing oil paint through plastic bags. She has deployed this technique to dramatic visual effect and using a wide range of subjects,... Read more -
Peter McDonald | This, That and The Other
Residency 23 Aug - 25 Sep 2018 Dio Horia Residency This, that and the other consists of multiple works on paper, works on canvas as well as other found objects that he has collected during his stay in Mykonos. The subject matter of the works exhibited is twofold. On the one hand, some of the works are figurative and portray... Read more -
Raul de Nieves | Today
Residency 31 Jul - 30 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency Today is Raul de Nieves second solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a three-week long residency in Mykonos organized by Dio Horia’s residency program. The gallery will host an opening reception on Tuesday, July 31st from 20:00-02:00 with the presence of the artist. Throughout his career Raul de Nieves has... Read more
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Matthew Palladino | Gigantomachy
6 Jul - 1 Aug 2018 Dio Horia Residency An opening reception in the gallery will take place on Friday, July 6th at 20:00 in the presence of the artist. The exhibition is called Gigantomachy and featues 4 new watercolor paintings on paper all made in Mykonos during Palladino’s participation at Dio Horia’s residency program. Gigantomachy is the most... Read more -
Todd James | The Gods Are Smiling on Us
Residency 15 Jun - 10 Jul 2018 Dio Horia Residency The Gods Are Smiling on Us is Todd James’s first solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a two-week long residency in Mykonos, organized by Dio Horia’s residency program. The gallery will host a soft opening reception on Friday, June 15th from 20:00-24:00 with the presence of the artist. For The... Read more -
Trudy Benson | Infinite Spiral
Residency 27 May - 23 Jun 2018 Dio Horia Residency The gallery will host an opening reception on Sunday, May 27 at 20:00 with the artist present. The spiral is a largely positive ancient symbol representing eternity, change, growth and even the evolution or movement of the universe. The spiral means different things to different cultures. In Greece it means... Read more -
Caroline Larsen | Romance on the Islands
Residency 28 Apr - 24 May 2018 Dio Horia Residency Romance on the Islands is Larsen’s first solo exhibition at Dio Horia after a month long residency in Mykonos, organized by Dio Horia’s residen cy program. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, April 28th from 20:00-24:00. Throughout her career Caroline Larsen has developed a painting practice that... Read more
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Raul De Nieves | Thirty3
Residency 25 Aug - 20 Sep 2017 Dio Horia Residency Thirty3 is the actual age of the artist. His very own milestone marking various thoughts, desires and memories of what has taken place and what is yet to come. Rethinking the personal, de Nieves underscores the connections with the social/political. His age is used as a starting point to reflect... Read more -
Aurel Schmidt | Night Music
27 Jul - 22 Aug 2017 Dio Horia Residency Morphing from organic to geometric, like cells and crystal formations, their structures echo the microcosms of our world and point towards a possibility of a world beyond, that of the metaphysical or mystical. Aurel Schmidt (b. 1982, Kamloops, BC, Canada) is an artist known both for the technically adept execution... Read more -
Hulda Guzmán | A Different Architecture
23 Jun - 20 Jul 2017 Dio Horia Residency Dio Horia opens its doors to a futurity not yet here with “A Different Architecture”; the solo exhibition of Dominican artist, Hulda Guzman. Captivating and immersive, the dynamics of the pieces lead the visitors to be aware of the never-ending flow of time. Intimate, individual moments are made public; energetic... Read more -
Taylor McKimens | Swapping Paint
8 - 25 Jul 2016 Dio Horia Residency As part of Dio Horia’s residency program, Taylor created this brilliant new series during his month long residency in Athens. The show’s title Swapping Paint is about coming together and exchanging ideas, like paint transfer on fenders. McKimens new body of work is a gesture towards his most recent exhibition... Read more
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Maja Djordjevic | I don’t know you, but I love you
24 Jul - 20 Aug 2015 Dio Horia Residency Maja Djordjevic (b. 1990) belongs to the first generation of children doodling in their computers. A doodle is a simple sketch that depicts either a specific representational image or simple abstract shapes. Typical examples of doodles are sketches found on the margins of school notebooks from students that have lost... Read more -
Selma Parlour | Paradoxes of the Flattened-out Cavity
26 Jun - 20 Jul 2015 Dio Horia Residency The paintings in Paradoxes of the Flattened-out Cavity are meticulously rendered through transparent films of oil paint on linen. There are no visible traces of her technique, instead her delicate surfaces appear as though drawn or printed. The literal transparency of colour in these works borrows from the white primer... Read more
