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Emi Avora
Singapore
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Emi Avora is a Greek, London trained and Singapore based artist. She studied at the RA schools, London and Ruskin school, Oxford. She exhibited widely including EMST, Athens and The Whitechapel & Royal Academy, London. Her work has been in publications including the New York Times and Defining the Contemporary, Whitechapel.
Drawing subject matter from public and personal spaces, her paintings enter a dialog with historical...
Emi Avora is a Greek, London trained and Singapore based artist. She studied at the RA schools, London and Ruskin school, Oxford. She exhibited widely including EMST, Athens and The Whitechapel & Royal Academy, London. Her work has been in publications including the New York Times and Defining the Contemporary, Whitechapel.
Drawing subject matter from public and personal spaces, her paintings enter a dialog with historical canons while pondering on our ambiguous relationship with colonial narratives, exoticism, domesticity and taste. Through exaggerated elements and fictional compositions, she often utilises humour and her everyday observations to question her own identity and anxiety. With the use of light and colour on the driving seat, her work allows space for invention, hovering between reality and fiction.
2015
Hellenic Cruise, New Court Gallery, Repton
2013
Grand Finale, Common View, National Theater of Greece, Athens, Greece
2011
The Splendid Years, The Apartment Gallery, Athens
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2017
National Bank of Greece, Recent Aquisitions, NBG, Athens, Greece
2016
Culturelines sans Frontiéres, curated by Vassiliki Tzanakou, metamatic:taf, Athens, Greece
2015
Dis/placed, curated by Counterpoint Arts, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
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Hiscox Collection
Marsh Collection, UK
National Bank of Greece, Greece
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Royal Academy School, 2002
Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, 1999
