Eugenia Raskopoulos (born 1959) is a contemporary artist notable for her photographic and video work critiquing language, processes of translation, and the body.
Raskopoulos' work has been shown in numerous Australian and International exhibitions,
and was the winner of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award for her work ''Vestiges #3'', 2010.
Raskopoulos was born in the
Czech Republic
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. She migrated back to
Greece
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in 1959 with her family, then to Australia in 1963.
Informed by the migrant experience, her works explore aspects of ‘otherness’, and she situates her work at the margins of photography and video, an interdisciplinary zone that synthesises performance, transcription, neon and installation. Her works also explore ideas of identity, translation, language and the body.
Solo exhibitions
* Arc One Gallery
*
Art Gallery of New South Wales
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Australian Centre for Photography
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Artspace Artspace may refer to:
* Artspace (website), an online marketplace based in New York City
* Artspace, New Haven, an art gallery in downtown New Haven, Connecticut
* Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Queensland, Australia
* Artspace NZ, a visual arts cent ...
* Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
* UQ Art Museum
* Art Beijing, China
* William Wright Artists Projects
* Darklight Photography Gallery
Awards
*Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award, 2012.
*MoMA scholarship for ''The Feminist Future'' conference from the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
in New York.
Publications
*''
Art Collector'' magazine: "Standout Exhibitions" by Daniel Mudie Cunningham.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raskopoulos Eugenia
1959 births
Living people
Australian women artists