Simi Gatenio

Simi Gatenio is a contemporary Greek artist based in Thessaloniki. His work explores mythology, psychology, symbolic systems and the subconscious through painting, drawing and mixed media. Winner of the Saatchi Art Showdown Prize "Art Paris" 2011.

Through interconnected series of paintings and drawings, Gatenio constructs psychological environments where architecture behaves like memory, systems acquire symbolic presence and organic forms exist between technology, transformation and decay.

Drawing from archetypal imagery, personal mythology and spatial illusion, his works combine dystopian atmospheres, layered structures and cinematic compositions that invite multiple interpretations.

STUDIES
2000 - Graphic Design - Greece.
2005 - Diplome National d’ arts plastiques of ecole national de Saint Etienne - France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Action Field Kodra 2004
Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Kalamaria -Greece

Action Field Kodra 2005
Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Kalamaria -Greece

“15 WINTER DAYS” 2011
ARTIS CAUSA contemporary art gallery Thessaloniki -Greece

2011 | “The Merchant of Dreams”, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italy.
(Featured in the same project/catalog alongside prominent contemporary artists including Matthew Barney, Erwin Olaf, and Ugo Nespolo).

Art Paris -Saatchi contest winner 2011

Reference-Representation Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki 2011 Greece

Gallery Myro group exhibition "The portrait of the artist" 2012 Thessaloniki Greece

Gallery Myro group exhibition “Soma” 2012
Thessaloniki Greece

Gallery Myro project room "Virus" 2014 Thessaloniki Greece

Michael Cacoyannis Foundation group exhibition "Prometheus 2.0" 2018 Athens Greece