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Mela Eva

Date of birth: 01-01-1956
Art Works 14

BIOGRAPHY

She was born in Athens in 1956.

STUDIES
1974-1980: Degree in Engraving, School of Fine Arts of Athens, under professor Lefteris Kanakakis and under Kostas Grammatopoulos in engraving.
1979-1981: Certificate of Studies from the Tuition Typography and Book Arts, School of Fine Arts, under John Papadakis.
1981-1982: Design and Painting, School of Fine Arts in Paris, in connection with a scholarship EOMMEX.
1985-1988: Fellow interior of IKY in engraving
For a long time, she studied engraving near the engraver George Varlamos.

Awards
1984: One of the two awards of the National Arts Competition launched by the Greek Post Office to design a postage stamp on "150 years of Athens as the capital of the State"
1989: Award in National Design Competition Artistic Paper on "Hymn to Freedom" by D. Solomos, who launched the House of Arts and letters of the Ministry of Culture.
2000: National Children's Book Illustration Award for her book, Georgia ANEZINA Leraki “The adventure of a Goldfinch”.  Awarded by the Ministry of Culture.
2000: Illustration Award 2000 for his book Georgia ANEZINA-Leraki "The adventure of a Goldfinch". Presented by Circle of Greek Children's Book.

Solo Exhibitions
1985: Paintings, Drawings, Antenor Gallery, Athens
1985: Painting, Art Gallery Epoches, Athens
1986: Painting, Prints, Drawings, Chrysothemis Gallery, Halandri
1991: Painting, Engraving, Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens
1992: Painting, Engraving, Europa-Akademie Weissenfels-Galerie Oben, Germany
1992: Painting, Bar Brooze, Athens
1995: Art Paper, Paintings, Prints-Covers-Editor, Union Graduate School of Fine Arts, Athens
1995: Paintings, Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens
1996: Painting, Terracotta Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
1997: Painting, Engraving, Amymone Contemporary Art, Ioannina
1998: Painting, Engraving, Nauplion Art Gallery
1998: Paintings, Chrysothemis Gallery, Halandri
1999: Painting, Engraving, Gallery Lavyrinthos, Katerini
2001: Painting, Zakynthos Art Gallery, Maria Platania

Major Group Exhibitions
1984: InterGrafik '84, Berlin, Germany
1985: Triennale Realistic Art, Sofia (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1986: Athens-Visual '86, the Cultural Centre of Athens
1987: Modern Greek Painting, Sofia (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1987: International Summer Pleinair, Kulturacademie Horst Salomon, Rountolstant, Gera, German DR
1988: First Mediterranean Biennial of Engraving Mirabello, Crete
1988: Modern Greek Engraving, Warsaw, Kilsen, Poland (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1988: Postwar Greek Printmaking, National Gallery, Athens (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1988: The spirit of the Bastille 1988, Portes Ouvertes al 'Europe, Paris
1989: Greek Days in East Berlin (organized by Hellenic Cultural Movement)
1989: Solidarity in Armenia, National Gallery, Athens, Pierides Gallery, Glyfada (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1989: 5th International Biennial of Engraving Varna '89 (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1989: International Exhibition of Book Arts Leipzig 1989 (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1989: Modern Greek Engraving, Belgrade (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1989: 18th International Biennial of Prints, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana
1990: Intergrafik '90, 9th International Triennale of Prints, Berlin
1990: Painted Contemporary Views, E. Mela, N. Kazakos, M. Mazis, Gallery Ekfrasi G, Thessaloniki
1992: Modern Greek Engraving, 1992, Palais Hirsch, Svetsingken, Germany (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1992: Modern Greek Engraving 1992, Galeria Mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava (organized by the Chamber of Fine Arts)
1993: Landscape, French Institute, Filothei
1993: International Exhibition of Illustration, Book Festival for Children, Bologna (organized by Artistic Company Aesop)
1993: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Zappeion, Athens (organized Diasomateiaki Committee for TV and radio Chamber of Fine Arts)
1993: Illustrators from Greece, Tibi '93, International Biennial of Illustration Tehran (organized by Artistic Company Aesop)
1994:3 the Belgrade Biennial of Printmaking '94, Cvijeta Zuzuric Art Pavilion, FR Yugoslavia
1994: Images of books for children, Vaso Psaraki, Sophia Loading Vassilis Dionysopoulos, Foteini Stephanides, Eva Mela, Art Gallery Nauplion
1995: Greek Children's Book, Children's Book Festival, Bologna (organized by Artistic Company Aesop)
1995: Greek Engravers, Fourth Generation: 1941-1967, Macedonians Art Society Art, Thessaloniki
1995: European Poster Exhibition for Bosnia, the Municipal Library of Angeres, France
1995: 4th Biennial of Engraving Belgrade '95, Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion, FR Yugoslavia

She has participated in traveling exhibitions of EETE with the Company  of A. Tassos, exhibitions for Peace, the exhibitions of Festival of KNE-Odigitis, exhibitions of Greek illustrators of books for children by Art Company Aesop and many other group.