Tassos Missouras

biographical note

1963    Tassos Missouras was born in Larissa
           in February, 1963
1981    Enrolls in the Athens School of Fine
           Arts and studies painting under
           Dimitris Mytaras and Rena
           Papaspyrou in the preparatory course
           under Yannis Moralis, Dimitris Koukos
           and Zacharias Arvanitis in the first
           year and under Dimitris Mytaras in all
           subsequent years
           He obtained scholarships for all his
           years as a student
1986    Graduates from the ASFA with
           distinction
1987    Studies at the Ecole Νationale
           Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris
           under Leonardo Cremonini (1987-
           1991)  on a French state (CROUS)
           scholarship
1988    Obtains a three-year Greek-state
           scholarship for the Ecole Nationale
           Superieure des Arts Decoratifs
Individual Exhibitions
1991   Athens Art Gallery
1995   Athens Art Gallery
1996   Terracotta Art Gallery
          Thessaloniki
1997   L'Estree Art Foundation, Ropraz
          Lausanne, Switzerland
2006   Dream Navigator
          Frissiras Museum, Athens
Group Exhibitions
1985   Epoches Art Gallery, Kifissia
1986   Young Greek Painters, Vassilis
          & Elisa Goulandris Museum, Andros
          Group exhibition for ASFA
          graduates, Athens Conservatoire
          Miranda Art Gallery, Hydra
1987   Miranda Art Gallery, Hydra
1989   Vers Un Nouvel Humanisme, Young
          Greek Painters in Paris, Espace des
          Esseliers a Villejuif. Curator Marina
          Lambraki-Plaka
1991   Pierides Gallery, Frissiras collection
1992   Four Greek Artists, Fine Arts
          Academy, Seoul, Korea
1993   Frissiras Collection, Neoria, Chania
1995   Love in Art, Terracotta Art Gallery
          Thessaloniki
1995   Frissiras Collection, Thessaloniki
          On Greco, National Gallery, Athens
          Between Humanism and the Present
          Age, Campus of Arts And Sciences
          Athens
1997   Focal pints of the Gaze, Athena
          Schina, Contemporary Art Centre
          Larissa
1997   The sources of gaze, Centre of
          Contemporary Art, Larissa, curator
          Athena Schina
          Pireos Street, Metamorphoses of an
          Industrial Landscape, VIS Factory
          Pireos Street, Athens
1999   Athens, Routes and Stopovers
          24 Art Space, Athens
2000   For the model Mary, Skoufa Art
          Gallery, Athens
2001   2nd presentation of the Frissiras
          Museum Collection Body,
          Vafopoulion Cultural Centre
          Thessaloniki, curator Efthymia
          Georgiadou Kountoura
          Galleria FORNI, Milan, Italy
          Figurazione, curator Alessandro Riva
2002   A visual journey, Frissiras Museum
          Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary
          Art, Lefteris Kanakakis Gallery
          curator Maria Marangou
          Contemporary Greek Artists, Marnix
          Neerman Gallery, Bruges, Belgium
          Young Greek Artists, Delineating the
          Present, the Future and the Past
          Tribute to the Prefecture of Ioannina
          curator Lina Tsikouta, Averoff-
          Tositsas Gallery, Metsovo
2002   BP Portrait Award 2002, National
          Portrait Gallery, London
          BP Portrait Award 2002, Aberdeen Art
          Gallery, Scotland
2003   Anthropography I, Frissiras Museum
2004   In our image, after our likeness,
          Frissiras Museum
          Suffering Body, Rethymnon Centre for
          Contemporary Art
          Suffering Body, Nees Morfes Gallery
2005   Anthropography II, Frissiras Museum
          Fresh Ground, Thanassis Frissiras
          Gallery
2006   May, 3 Greek Painters, from the Collection
          C. Christofi, French Institute, Athens
2007   Het nieuwe Verhaal Imaginair-Figuratieve
          Schilderkunst Pulchri Studio der Haag
          Netherlands
          Selective Relativities, Frissiras Museum
         Reali Mundi/Εγκόσμια, P.&M. Kydonies
          Andros (curator A. Schina).
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