Froso Papadimitriou
Froso Papadimitriou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece where she studied applied arts, illustration/sketching and graphic design. In 2006 she relocated to London and attained a BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University London and a Master’s degree in Arts Management and Policy, Curatorial and Educational pathway, Birkbeck University of London.
She has collaborated with international galleries and institutions and has contributed to publications in Taiwan, USA, Greece, France, Argentina, UK. She has also been resident artist at Beckenham Place Mansion studios, London UK.
Major shows include:
• ‘Birthing a Better Future Art & Science’, group exhibition, Fitzrovia Chapel, London UK and Friends Meeting House, Brighton Fringe Festival, Brighton UK
• APSF Asia Pacific Science Fiction Convention, group exhibition, Science and Technology Museum of Beijing China
• ‘DADA no DADA’, group exhibition, Refugees’ Museum, Thessaloniki Greece
• ‘Invisible…but omnipresent’ solo exhibition, panel discussion and children’s workshop took place at Deptford Lounge in London UK.
• ‘Tomorrow’s Child’, group exhibition at The Houses of Parliament London UK
• ‘and with the marks on my hand I will tell you my story…Hajichi’, art residency, solo exhibition and public lecture, Arcade Art studio & Space in Okinawa Japan.
• ‘Painting and Beyond’, invited by the National Taiwan Normal University to curate and participate in a group exhibition with artist such as Karin Ruggaber, Chih-Fen Tsai, Lanya Huang and ChingYao Chen amongst others, Taipei Taiwan
• ‘Minesweepers’, Art Residency and group exhibition, La nouvelle Auberge de Jeunesse de Lille, Lille France
• ‘Telephone: A Global Arts Experiment by Satellite Collective’ a New York based online project, for which her work was featured in the New York Times
• ‘(Im)possible school book: As Found’, contribution to a publication and live event at Tate Modern, London
She is also the organiser and contributor of ‘Tracing my echo’, a travelling exhibition first presented at Tettix Gallery in Thessaloniki, which then journeyed to Zweigstelle Berlin Gallery in Berlin, One Year Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan and collaborating with artists such as Takahiko Suzuki, Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin, Ting-Ting Chen, Cecilia Mandrile and Hülya Küpçüoğlu .
In addition, she also partnered with Brunswick East for The Exchange project, independent artists’ library and bookstore, collaborating with artists from around the globe, housing works from early career artists to artists whose publications may also be found in Tate Galleries London, Whitechapel gallery, V & A and MOMA New York.