Yiannis Galanopoulos

Dr Ioannis Galanopoulos-Papavasileiou (aka Yiannis Galanopoulos) is an Associate Professor of Art at Zayed University, UAE and a contemporary interdisciplinary visual artist. His photographic work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and institutions in UAE, Europe, the US, Australia, China and Japan. Most notably at Athens Photo Festival, the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, the Venice Biennale, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Florence Biennale, the Biennale Arte Dolomiti in Italy, the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Korea, and the Eyes on Main Street Festival in the USA. His work has been acquired by private and public collections. His expanded photography work examines the relationship between ideated, geographic and virtual place, as well as the connections between objects, artists, media, viewers and society. Ioannis writes on photography and film and is a regular contributor to scholarly research journals and publications such as Taylor and Francis; The Journal of Visual Practice Research, CGRNet's On the Image and the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

Ph.D. Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Australia
MA-MFA ODU/NSU Virginia, USA
BFA University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

Solo
• 2023: Architectura Transtopica, Zayed University Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2021: Views from Expatria, ZUUSS gallery, Foundry Cultural Space, Dubai, UAE.
• 2021: Views from Expatria: Photographing Place and the self In Transience, Online, 3D exhibition https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/3638875/views-from-expatria-photographing-place-and- the-self-in-transience
• 2019: Transient Places, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (catalogue).
• 2018: Reduction to Absurdity, Muzikos Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• 2014: A World of Immaterial Objects, Selden Arcade, Norfolk, VA, USA.
• 2013: A World of Immaterial Objects, La Petite Vivienne Gallery, Paris, France.

Group
• 2022: The Art of Photography, juried exhibition, PH21 gallery Barcelona, Spain.
• 2021: Scapes 2021, juried exhibition, PH21 gallery Budapest, Hungary.
• 2021: Contemporary Landscape Exhibition 2021, juried exhibition, SE Center of Photography, Greenville, SC, USA
• 2021: Eyes on Main Street, 7th edition, photography festival, Wilson, NC, USA.
• 2021: Instability and Precariousness, juried exhibition, Loosen Art Gallery, Millepiani multi-space, Rome, Italy.
• 2020: The New Abnormal, juried exhibition, Royal Melbourne Institu...