Vangelis Rinas | Biography
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VANGELIS RINAS (Mr)

1966 Born in Samos, Greece

Has enjoyed nearly twenty solo shows in Europe,USA and China (The National Art Museum of China-NAMOC;Tenri Cultural Institute, NY etc) and has taken part in many group exhibitions and International Biennale.

Selected Collections of which his work is part are, The National Centre of the Performing Arts-NCPA ,Beijing ; The Hellenic Parliament ;Beijing International Art Biennale Collection.

Holds an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece .
Lives and works in Athens New York and Florida.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2016 :PRESENCES….Evripides Art Gallery, Athens.
  • 2012 :Vangelis Rinas Palimpsests of Time, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, New York.
  • 2012 :Passages: Loss, Search and Ascent, Elga Wimmer PCC Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2010 :Endless Sailing III ,National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, China.
  • 2010 :Endless Sailing III, School of Fine Arts, Shanghai University,99 Creative Center, Shanghai, China
  • 2007 :Endless Sailing II, Skoufa Gallery Athens, Greece.
  • 2007 :National Printing House of Greece Annual Calendar, Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece.
  • 2005 :Childrens’ Portraits, Agathi Gallery, Athens ,Greece .
  • 2002 :Endless Sailing II, Athinais Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 2002 :Communication between Painting and Photography, Adam Gallery Athens, Greece.
  • 2001 :Water and Wind II, Adam Gallery, Athens, Greece.
  • 1998 :Water and Wind I, Prisma Gallery, Livadia,Viotia, Greece.
  • 1993 :First Reading, Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece.
  • 1992 :Engraving, Miranda Gallery, Hyrda Island, Greec.
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Selected group exhibitions

Bocca Raton Museum of Art ,The Artist’s Guild Gallery – member since August 2014.

  • 2016 :Woman: Mother, Daughter, Wife, Friend, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery & President’s Gallery, New York
  • 2016 :ArtBlend Gallery ,Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  • 2015 :SPECTRUM Miami 2015 Contemporary Art Show, ArtBlend Gallery, Miami,FL.
  • 2015 :Memory and Dream, Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China.
  • 2015 :To draw a World: Chinese, British and Greek Famous Artists, Qingzhou,China.
  • 2015 :Painting for one World, Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Chenyang,China.
  • 2015 :Art Hamptons-July 2015, ArtBlend Gallery New York.
  • 2015 :Art Expo NY, ArtBlend Gallery.
  • 2015 :New Lanscape , Evripides Art Gallery, Athens.
  • 2014 :SPECTRUM Miami 2014 Contemporary Art Show, ArtBlend Gallery, Miami.
  • 2014 :SPECTRUM Miami 2014 Contemporary Art Show, ArtBlend Gallery, Miami.
  • 2014 :ArtBlend Gallery ,Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  • 2014 :ART ATHINA, International Art Fair of Athens, Athens.
  • 2014 :The Rule of Law and the Right to be Human, John Jay College Exhibition, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens.
  • 2014 :ART-BLEND gallery , international Art Basel Miami .
  • 2014 :ART ATHINA, International Art Fair of Athens, Athens
  • 2014 :The Rule of Law and the Right to be Human,John Jay College Exhibition curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D., Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
  • 2013 :Hellenic Contemporary Art Exhibition , Shanghai Artists Association Creative Center, the Eastern Bund Art Space, Shanghai, China
  • 2011 :Taste of Brackishness II, Poseidonion Grand Hotel, Spetses island, Greece
  • 2010 :Environment Concern and Human Existence, Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2010, Beijing, China
  • 2010 :With the Generation of 30’s as a Springboard ,the Great Art Studios and the descendants, Glikas Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 2009 :Ambassadors of Contemporary Greek Art-Three Generations of Painters,Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2009 :Water Colouring the Landscape, curated by Iris Kritikou, Contemporary Balkan Art Gallery, Limnos Island, Greece
  • 2009 :Greek Visual Artists,Viannos Gallery, Basilica of Saint Mark, Heraklion, Creta Island,Greece
  • 2009 :Four Seasons, Hellenic War Museum, Athens, Greece
  • 2009 :Modern Greek Landscape Painting from the 18th to the 21st Century-vision, experience and space regenerating, curated by Haris Kambouridis, B. and M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, Greece
  • 1989-2009 :20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Ιnternational Multi-Multicultural Events Art Exhibition, Rome Italy -Berlin,Germany
  • 2008 :Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, Athens, Greece
  • 2007 :Visual Arts in Greece2007-Artistic Innovation: Semiotics of its Terms in the New Age, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
  • 2007 :Dialogues 2007, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
  • 2007 :Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
  • 2006 :90 Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre, Athens, Greece
  • 2005 :Shall we play?, Adam Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 2005 :Art Works Exhibition, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre Athens, Greece Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 2005 :Vision and Touch, Atrion Gallery, Salonika, Greece
  • 2005 :“Sacred and Profane” aspects of the female in modern Greek painting 1930-2005, curated by Haris Kambouridis, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Chania, Creta Island, Greece
  • 2003-2004 :Christmas with Greek and Russian Contemporary Art, K Gallery, London, Great Britain
  • 2003 :New Iconolatry, curated by Haris Kambouridis, Fine Arts Kapopoulos Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 2001 :Visions and Bonds, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre, Athens, Greece
  • 2001 :Apollon Gallery, Rafina, Attica,Greece
  • 1999 :Anny Balta Gallery, Thessaloniki
  • 1998 :Municipality of Corfu Gallery, Corfu Island, Greece
  • 1998 :Trigono Gallery, Kifissia, Attica, Greece
  • 1997 :Selini Gallery, Kifissia, Attica, Greece
  • 1994 :Kostis Palamas Building, Athens, Greece
  • 1994 :A.Tassos Fine Arts Society, Athens, Greece
  • 1992 :Polyedro Gallery, Patra, Greece
  • 1992 :Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
  • 1992 :Municipality of Vyronas Cultural Centre (Isidora Duncan), Vyronas, Athens
  • 1991 :Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates Exhibition, National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece

Bibliografhy

Apollo Executive Review,Cyprus Airways, 2013, 1,10

Zacharias Sokos, “Vangelis Rinas_The Painter”, Apostrofos, Ert webtv ,ErtWorld, February 26, 2012, http://www.ert.gr/webtv/ertworld/item/2415-Baggelhs-Rhnas-Zwgrafos-26-02-2012

Robert Morgan, Ph.D., Vangelis Rinas :Illusion and the Tactile Sensation in Painting inVangelis Rinas: Palimpsests of Time ,Catalogue Essay, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, New York, 2012
Jonathan Goodman, Vangelis Rinas: The Art of Hybridity in

Vangelis Rinas: Palimpsests of Time ,Catalogue Essay, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, New York, 2012

Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D.,Vangelis Rinas:Deterioration and Renewal in Vangelis Rinas: Palimpsests of Time, Catalogue Essay, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, New York, 2012
Mary Hrbacek, “Painting in the Present Past”, Review, NY Arts, June 23, 2012,http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/reviewed/painting-in-the-present-past
Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D., “Vangelis Rinas’ Passages: Loss, Search and Ascent” in Vangelis Rinas’ Passages, Catalogue Essay , Elga Wimmer PCC Galery, New York New York May 2012
Thalia Vrachopoulos, Ph.D., Vangelis Rinas’ Passages. Catalogue. NewYork: Elga Wimmer PCC Galery, 2012
Zacharias Sokos, “Vangelis Rinas_The Painter”, Apostrofos, Third program of Greek National Radio, February 20, 2012
First Visit of the Opera of Beijing, http://www.17u.com/blog/article/938804.html 10 – 16
The Album of the Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2010.Catalogue. Beijing China:People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2010, 53
Nadia Soufli, “Vangelis Rinas”,Review, Hot Harbor, August 2010, 69-76
Yiannis Moutsos, “Endless Sailing to China” , Review, Gentleman, July 2010, 110-111
Nikos Vatopoulos, “A wooden Boat to China” , Review, Kathimerini, July 18, 2010,1
Annita Patsouraki, “Vangelis Rinas, Endless Sailing” , Review,The World of Metro, June 2010, no. 52, 7-9
“ The Greek Artist Vangelis Rinas “Endless Sailing III” exhibition opening, Artonline, April 23, 2010,

http://artonline-cn.com/news/view.asp?nid=32192
“Greek Artist Rinas: Chinese Ideograms carving the Wooden Symbol of Cultural Expansion” China News, March 9, 2010, http://www.chinanews.com/cul/news/2010/03-09/2160222.shtml
Liu Dawei, Vangelis Rinas:He is sailing from the Aegean, First Personal Exhibition of the Greek Artist Vangelis Rinas in China,in Rinas: Endless Sailing III, Catalogue Essay,National Art Museum of China, March, 2010
Yang Shaobo, Vangelis Rinas:The Sound of Angel Wings in Rinas: Endless Sailing III, Catalogue Essay, National Art Museum of China, March, 2010
Harris Kambouridis, Vangelis Rinas:In the Harmonious Sway of Myth, in Rinas: Endless Sailing III, Catalogue Essay, National Art Museum of China, March, 2010
Endless Sailing III National Art Museum of China. Catalogue. Beiing, China: China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Co., March, 2010
Liang Yeqian, “Greek Painter Rinas” Xinhua News Agency, March 3, 2010,http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-03/10/content_13140075.htm
“The First Greek Painter Rinas’ Exhibition in the National Art Museum”, March 9, 2010, http://www.cnr.cn/allnews/201003/t20100310_506128874.html
“The Greek Artist Vangelis Rinas “Endless Sailing III” exhibition opening”, Finance 17ok, March 10, 2010, http://finance.17ok.com/subject/xila/, http://finance.17ok.com/subject/xila/pic.shtml, http://finance.17ok.com/news/904/2010/0308/1566493_1.html
Nikos Vatopoulos, , “A Tale of two Countries’ Friendship”, , Review,

Ekathimerini, March 3, 2010, http://archive.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp&fdate=30/03/2010
Vangelis Rinas from Greece holds solo exhibition, National Art Museum of China News,March 2010,http://www.namoc.org/en/NEW/news2010/201003/t20100311_125049.html
“The first Greek painter works visit the National Art Museum of China”, News.99ys, March 2010,

http://news.99ys.com/20100310/article–100310–37029_1.shtml
“The First Greek Painter works visit the National Art Museum of China”, macauart.net,March 2010, http://www3.icm.gov.mo/gate/gb/www.macauart.net/News/ContentC.asp?id=161502
“The first Greek painter works visit the National Art Museum of China”, Art.China, March 2010, http://art.china.cn/huihua/2010-03/09/content_3410569_3.htm
National Art Museum of China Art Show, March 2010, no.3
Vivi Vasilopoulou, “Traveling” , Review, Ependytis, February 24, 2010
Marilena Astrapelou, “A Long Journey with Canvas” , Review, Vimagazino, February 21, 2010, no.488, 52-55
China Greece Times, Europe Weekly, February 14, 2010 no. 5
Myrto Raftopoulou, “Endless Sailing II”, Review, Efoplistis, April 2007,124-127
Annita Patsouraki, Infinitive Voyage ,Prayer for those who sail well in the seas, in Vangelis Rinas: Endless Sailing II, Catalogue Essay, Skoufa Gallery,Athens 2007
Haris Kambouridis, With Art as a Valuable Cargo, in Vangelis Rinas: Endless Sailing II,Catalogue Essay, Skoufa Gallery, Athens 2007
Vangelis Rinas; Endless Sailing II. Catalogue. Athens, Greece: Skoufa Gallery, 2007
Phivi Paraskeva, “A Visual Journey in the World of Subconscious”,Review,

Proto Thema, April 3, 2007
Katerina Zaharopoulou, “The Age of Images” ET-1 program, Greek TV, March 15, 2007
Katerina Zaharopoulou,“Girls of the Night” ETHNOS, February 25, 2007
Kyriakos Valavanis, Kritiki Logou kai Techis, 2007, no. 5
Haris Kambouridis, “Molding the Clay with Color”, Review, Ta Nea, December 28, 2005
“Boat in the Air”, Eleftherotypia, March 22, 2002, 30
Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan Ph.D., Endless Sailing , in Vangelis Rinas: Endless Sailing,Catalogue Essay, Athinais Gallery, Athens 2002
Nasa Patapiou, I have ventured upon a great sea.. in Vangelis Rinas: Endless Sailing,Catalogue Essay, Athinais Gallery, Athens 2002
Haris Kambouridis, Shipbuilding for the voyage of art in Vangelis Rinas: Endless Sailing,Catalogue Essay, Athinais Gallery, Athens 2002
Vangelis Rinas:Endless Sailing. Catalogue. Athens, Greece: March, 2002
“If you ever see a boat in the land…”, Ta Nea, March 19, 2002
Vangelis Rinas. Catalogue. Athens, Greece: Adam Gallery ,2001
Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan Ph.D., “Into the Inner Recesses” in Vangelis Rinas, Catalogue Essay,Adam Gallery,Athens March, 2001
Haris Kambouridis, “Spark of Resurrection”, Review,Ta Nea, April 18, 2001
Panos Bailis, “The Hope does have a Face”,Review,Ta Nea, February 18, 1994
Vangelis Rinas, Catalogue. Athens,Greece:Maria Papadopoulou Gallery,1993
Lena Pappa, “In a closed Room,” Vangelis Rinas, March, 1993
Vangelis Kehriotis, “Faces in a closed Room” Review,Avgi, March, 1993
Dimitris Mitropoulos, “Visual Athens Today” Review, Tahydromos, July 14, 1993

Selected on line references

http://www.avgi.gr/article/2447308/apeikonizontas-to-kratos-dikaiou

http://www.combustus.com/13/vangelis-rinas

http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2014-03/17/c_126275719.htm

http://www.namoc.org/en/NEW/news2010/201003/t20100311_125049.html

http://www.namoc.org/news/gnxw/2010/201003/t20100311_125044.html

http://www.namoc.org/msg/zlzp.jsp?page=1&searchword=zlid%3D124418&channelid=75015

http://nyaa.kr/zb/zboard.php?id=exhibition&page=1&sn1=&divpag…e&desc=desc&no=139&PHPSESSID=37f19b646e7c3514d34014540f3cd21d

http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2012/4EF5

http://baike.baidu.com/view/3524450.htm?fromTaglist

http://www.painting.net.cn/article-922.html

http://www.17u.com/blog/article/938804.html Pages 10 and 16

http://old.cflac.org.cn/wlbaokan/ysjl/2010-11/22/content_21456299.htm

http://news.chushan.com/index/article/id/36439

http://www.hui100.com/art/qy/hz/201004/3345.html

http://fashion.ifeng.com/art/worldnews/detail_2010_03/11/365769_0.shtml

http://www.cnr.cn/allnews/201003/t20100310_506128874.html

http://www.cl2000.com.cn/detail.php?iInfoID_20291.html

http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=64050555

http://zx.findart.com.cn/10552803-zx.html

http://www.dashuhua.com/boke/60200208.html

http://post.discovery.tom.com/D300140C1083.html

http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrbhwb/html/2010-03/23/content_472865.htm

http://www.ieread.com/book/article.do?tid=54201496611EA735FF2651DD3E60D100_221

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4bbdc47d0100haq7.html

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4ae3171b0100imcq.html

http://www.cq.xinhuanet.com/news/2010-11/25/content_21480694.htm

http://news.keyin.cn/plus/view.php?aid=459436

Selected Public Collections

NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (The Opera of Beijing), Beijing, China

BEIJING INTERNATIONAL ART BIENNALE COLLECTION, Beijing ,China

THE LOUKIA AND MICHAEL ZAMBELAS ART MUSEUM,Cyprus

HELLENIC PARLIAMENT, Athens, Greece

NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE, London

COMMERCIAL BANK OF GREECE, Athens, Greece

MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF CORFU, Corfu Island, Greece

MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF VIANNOS, Crete Island, Greece

Private collections

His works can be found in many private collections in Greece, Cyprus, USA, Saudi Arabia and Europe.