EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' work explores ideas of identity, translation, language and the body. Translation in the broadest sense of the word is a thread that is continuous throughout her art practice.
Born in 1959 in the Czech Republic, Eugenia Raskopoulos immigrated to Australia, via Greece, in 1963. She studied at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney (1977-79), completed her Master of Fine Art at the College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, in 1993 and in 2011 she completed her PhD there. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally including, Shadow Catches, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2020); The National, curated by Daniel Maudie Cunningham, Carriageworks, Sydney, (2019); Okay Democracy : we need to talk, Campbelltown Art Centre, Campbelltown (2019); 2018 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Curated by Daniel Maudie Cunningham, Artbank, Sydney (2017); Red, Green, Blue, A History of Australian Video Art, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (2017); TarraWarra Biennial, Endless Circulation, curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria (2016); Vestiges 2010-2014, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Endless Circulation Image Anxiety, PhotoEspana, Spain (2012); Light Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012); How We Know that the Dead Return, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne (2010); Mirror Mirror Then and Now, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2010) and Video Logic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2008). In 2007, Raskopoulos’ work was shown in Nightcomers at the 10th International Istanbul Biennale.
In 2012, Eugenia Raskopoulos was awarded the Josephine Ulrich & Win Schubert Photography Award for her work, Vestiges #3. In 2010 and 2009 Raskopoulos was a finalist for the Albury City National Photography Prize and the Redlands Westpac Prize respectively. In 2006 she received a MoMA scholarship for The Feminist Future conference from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Raskopoulos has also been the recipient of a number of grants from the Australia Council.
Eugenia Raskopoulos’ work is held in Australian and international collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Artbank Collection; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece; Polaroid Corporation Australia; Bodo University, Norway; Malmo University, Sweden; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD; Groningen Hochschule University, Netherlands. Raskopoulos’ works are also held in private collections in Australia, Greece, Switzerland and the USA.
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