Yiannis Galanopoulos

Dr Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou 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 Exhibitions (Selected)
• 2025 – Architecture of Transience, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China (catalogue).
• 2025 – Here There Are Lions, Photometria Festival, Ioannina, Greece (catalogue).
• 2024 – Architectura Transtopica: Totems of a Journeyman, Xposure Festival, Sharjah, UAE (catalogue).
• 2024 – Home – No Home . Bait 11, RAK Fine Arts Festival, International Fine Arts Festival, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE (catalogue).
• 2023 – Home – No Home, National Numismatic Museum, Athens, Greece.
• 2021 – Views from Expatria, The Foundry Cultural Space, Dubai, UAE.
• 2019 – Transient Places, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (catalogue).
• 2018 – Reduction to Absurdity, Muzikos Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

• 2025 – The Gulf and Other Places, International Group Exhibition Italian Cultural Institute. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2024 – Here We Are, International Group Exhibition Italian Cultural Institute. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2023 – Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival, International Annual Group Exhibition, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE (catalogue).
• 2023 – I AM YOU, Florence Biennale, International Group Exhibition, Florence, Italy (catalogue).
• 2023 – Photography Now, I...