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Emi Avora

Singapore

Drawing, Painting • Born in Athens/ Greece • Studied at London/Uk

Published  31/12/2019

Emi Avora

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...

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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 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.

Emi Avora
Crab Dinner, acrylic on canvas, 120x140cm, 2019

Crab Dinner, acrylic on canvas, 120x140cm, 2019

Luncheon, acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm, 2019

Luncheon, acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm, 2019

I'd like to be a potter, acrylic on canvas, 70x90cm, 2019

I'd like to be a potter, acrylic on canvas, 70x90cm, 2019

Dragon Fruit, acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm, 2019

Dragon Fruit, acrylic on canvas, 100x120cm, 2019

Dancing in the Dark, acrylic on canvas, 70x90cm, 2019

Dancing in the Dark, acrylic on canvas, 70x90cm, 2019

Fortune teller, acrylic and oil on canvas, 42x29cm, 2019

Fortune teller, acrylic and oil on canvas, 42x29cm, 2019


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

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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GROUP

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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WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Hiscox Collection

Marsh Collection, UK

National Bank of Greece, Greece

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PUBLICATIONS

ARTMAZE Mag, Spring Issue 12, 2019

Yngspc Interview, 2019ODD-ONE-OUT interview

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EDUCATION (detailed)

Royal Academy School, 2002

Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, 1999

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