Georgia Sagri

Artadia Awardee
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Georgia Sagri, born 1979, is a Greek artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied music at the National Music School of Athens; she holds a BA from Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. Her first institutional solo show, curated by Adam Szymczyk, was under the title Mona Lisa Effect, at Kunsthalle Basel in the spring of 2014. She was included in the Biennale de Lyon (2013), ProBio, Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2013) and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011). Her work has been shown internationally in public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, KW, Berlin, Arnolfini, Bristol, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Deste Foundation, Athens, and in private galleries, including Mathew-nyc; Anthony Reynolds, London; MelasPapadopoulos, Athens; Lars Friedrich, Berlin; Team, New York; Murray Guy, New York; Real Fine Arts, New York; Andrew Roth, New York; Circus, Berlin, Terri and Donna, Miami and Central Fine, Miami. She is the founder of the online audio-only magazine FORTÉ (www.magazineforte.com), and SALOON, an on-going curatorial project. She is participating in the 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015 curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Georgia Sagri is the recipient of the 2015 Fund for Art and Dialogue Artadia Award.

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