Geórgia Kyriakakis graduated with a BFA from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado/FAAP in 1986, and went on to complete her Master and PhD in Arts from the Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo/ECA-USP (2001 e 2006 respectively). Geórgia has exhibited her work since 1986, having her first solo exhibition in 1991 at the Itaugaleria, in São Paulo. Thenceforward she has participated regularly on group and individual shows, in Brazil and abroad, and has received several awards and distinguished mentions as recognition of her artistic work. Geórgia also develops didactic activities since 1990, by holding workshops, courses and lectures at private and public cultural and educational institutions. From 1990 to 1996 she also worked with art-education programs for underprivileged children through social projects, like the Enturmando (Fitting in) Project of the Child and Youth Department and at the A Hebraica´s Arts Workshop. In 1997, she joined university teaching and since then she works at the FAAP/Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and, since 2003, at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes, where she also teaches in the postgraduate program. Amongst her many awards noted ones are the Prêmio Iguatemi/SPArte/Brasilia/DF (2014)- Prêmio Funarte de Arte Contemporânea (2012) - Bolsa Vitae de Artes (2002) - O Artista Pesquisador, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Niterói (2001) - Brazilian Project, European Ceramic Work Centre, Holanda (1995) - Salão Nacional, (1991), between others. Among the shows is noteworthy: Bienal do Mercosul (2015) - Experimentando Espaços, Museu da Casa Brasileira, SP (2014) - Meridianas, Galeria Flavio de Carvalho, Funarte, SP (2012) - Picada, Sesc Pompeia,SP (2012) - Paralela 2010 (Liceu de Artes e Ofícios/São Paulo/2010) - Parangolé-90 Fragmentos (Museu Pateo Herreriano, Espanha/2009) - São Paulo-450 anos-Paris (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo/2004) - Caminhos do Contemporâneo (Paço Imperial/RJ/2002) - Arte-cidade III (São Paulo/1997) - XVIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (1996) - Beelden Uit Brasilie (Stedelijk Museum/Schiedam/1996) e De Huit Van Witte Dame (Eindhoven/1995) ambas na Holanda - Espelhos e Sombras (MAM/SP e CCBB/RJ/1994). The artist lives and works in São Paulo.

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