Born in 1981 in Greece, raised in Paris, Esmeralda now lives and works
between Paris and Cairo, Egypt
Awards, grants, residencies and commissions
2023
nominated for the grantTransverse DAGP, Paris
2022
Residency – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belium
2020
Grant - Warehouse 421, Dubai, EAU
Grant - Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York
2019
Residency - Townhouse, Cairo, Egypt
Grant by the European Cultural Foundation with support of Compagnia di San Paolo
Residency Le18, Marrakech, Morocco
2018
Residency - Chinatown Soup Residency, New York, USA
2017
Talk "Mobilités humaines et Création", French Embassy, Teheran, Iran
Residency - KAAF Institute, Teheran, Iran
Grant - Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, New York, USA
Residency - Victoria Square Project, Athens, Greece
Residency - Beirut, Lebanon
2016
Residency - MASS MOCA, North Adams, USA
Scholarship - Harvestworks, New York, USA
Residency - Kooshk, Teheran, Iran
Award - KARA Award, Teheran, Iran
2015
Seminar - NYFA Immigrant Artists Mentorship program, New York, USA
Commission - Louis Braille Museum with the support of Foundation Givaudan, Coupvray, France
2014
Finalist of the 1st Internat Festival of Electronic Literature Prize, Naples, Italy
Award - Finalist of the 8th Venice Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Italy
Grant - Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant LMCC, New York
Award - Winner for the 4th New Media Writing Prize, Bournemouth, UK
2013
Grant - Turbulence.org commission funded by the Jerome Foundation, New York
2012
Seminar - LMCC Artists Summer Institute, New York, USA
Commission - AMA|Art of Americas Museum with the support of Hugo Boss, DC,USA
Winner of the Scottia Bank, Artist Project prize, Toronto, Canada
Solo shows and special projects (selection)
2023
Mother!, Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris (October/November)
2021
Caressing walls, Apick gallery, Torino, Italy
2020
Si le nez de Cleopatre, DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt
2018
"+-+", performance curated by Azad Azifovich, Zadkine Museum, Paris, France
Contemporary Istanbul, présentée par Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise
Libro d'Oro, site specific installation curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis, Suzanna Petot and Alexandra Etienne, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Luciano Benetton collections,Treviso,IT
"/ _____ /", exhibition curated by Azad Azifovich, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France
Chez Naussica, curated by Ifigenia Papamikroulea, French Institute, Athens, Greece
2017
What I always wanted to tell you but never dared, exhibition curated by Clémence Mailly, Parasol Projects, New York, USA
SIRI&me, VISIONAIRS Gallery, Singapore
L'amour de loin, site specific installation, BAR, Beirut, Lebanon
2016
The _ _ _ _ _ is absent, Galerie Christophe Tailleur at Pulse Miami, USA
Dessine moi un arc-en-ciel, The Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, USA
Fifteen Pairs of Mouths, site specific installation, Musée de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris
Comment peut-on être #Persan, KARA Award final project presentation, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Mastering the Art of Contemporary Art, participatory exhibition in collaboration with Sean Naftel, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
MHOAUNTDH [mu-hoh-uhn-tuh-dah], curated by Amanda Uribe and Che Morales, SPRING- BREAK, New York, USA
2015
Connecting the dots, Seaport Studios, New York, USA
Dessine moi un arc-en-ciel, site-specific installation, Musée Louis Braille,Coupvray,FR
2014
The legacy of Nam June Paik in the post-digital age, Two-artist exhibition, Shin Gallery, New York, USA
Et Dieu créa l'@, Galerie Propos d?Artistes, Paris, France
2012
"L", Site-specific installation, AMA|Art Museum of Americas, Washington DC, USA
The Palm Authority Project, Site-specific installation, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Group shows (selection)
2023
Pause! curators Jon Uriarte, Elisa Medde and Luis Juares, Getxophoto Festival, Gexto, Spain*
Motherhood, curators Ifigenia Papamikroulea, TAF Foundation, Athens, Greece*
Koun, curator Art d'Egypte team, Art Rub Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2022
Collecting policy, Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Austria, curators Christina Penetsdorfer, Thorsten Sadowsky
Visions of ancient Egypt, Sainsbury center, Norwich, UK, curators Ben Hinson and Anna Ferrari
Hooked, Emory University Science gallery, Atlanta, USA, curator Hannah Redler
Salo X, Les Salaisons, Romainville, FR, curator Laurent Quenehen
Body frame, Apick gallery, Torino, Italy
Laniakea #2, Foundation La Ruche Seydoux, Paris, curator Marie Deparis-Yafil and Bogdan Pavlovic
2021
Trecciento, Galerie Italienne Paris, curator Azad Assifovich
Tangled stuctures/art of Egypt, The factory, Cairo, Egypt
Le goût des autres, FRac Bretagne, Rennes, France
2020
Cookbook China, Today art museum, Beijing, China, curator Nicolas Bourriaud and Andrea Petrini
Beacon, The Alice and Harris K Weston art gallery, Cincinatti, USA, curator CM Turner
Le Grand Tour, H2M art center, Bourg en Bresse, France, curator Marie Deparis-Yafil
From scratch to scratch, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium, curators Sofia Lemnos Marques, Koi Persyn, Zuzanna Rachowska, Yanis Stefanou, Ella Strowel and Vincent van Laeken
2019
Cookbook 2019, curators Nicolas Bourriaud and Andrea Petrini, La Panacée, Montpellier, France*
Material Insanity, curators Meriem Berrada and Janine Gae?lle Dieudji, MACAAL Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco*
Human Aspect, curator Piotr Krajewski, 18th Media Art Biennial, Wroc?aw, Poland* Dramaturkia, curator Azad Azifovich, University of Anvers, Belgium*
2018
Xcelerator, Beijing Times Art Museum 10th Anniversary exhibition curated by Charles Lindsay and Saoyu Su, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China
Hooked, curated by Hannah Redler Hawes, Kings College Science Gallery, London,UK
Crossing the Garden, curated by Xiaomin Xie, MOCABS museum, Shanghai, China
Exile Pavillon, curated by Marie Deparis-Yafil and Mounir Fatmi, French Institute,
St Louis, Senegal
Shape Open, curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE, Richard Hunt and David Hevey,
the Art Pavilion, London, UK
Id*entity, curated by Chloe Athanasopoulou, Float, Athens, Greece
Notes on Today from Tomorrow, curated by CM Turner, IRL Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
2017
Variation, curated by Dominique Moulon, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Art at the margin, curated by Kelly Jost, Hunter College, New York, USA
Trans-allegoria, curated by Lydia Andrioti, IFAC Athens, Greece
Fluid Rings, curated by Maria Papadimiriou, Victoria Square Project, Athens, Greece
Imagined Homes, curated by Azad Azifovich et Jérôme Nivet-Carzon, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece
The Mediterranean: A Sea of Conflicting Spiritualities, curated by Dr. Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, Nikki Petroni and Melanie Erixon, APS Mdina Biennale, Malta
A Certain Blue of the Sea is so Blue that only Blood would be more Red, curated by Sozita Goudouna, Ionian Parliament, Corfu, Greece
2016
Borderless: In Perspective, curated by David C. Terry, Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, DE
Une Journée de Coïncidences #4, curated by Francois Ronsiaux, Paris, France
Traduire / c'est trahir. Volet 1, curated by Azad Asifovich and Sasha Pevak, galerie Nivet-Carzon, Paris, France
Works: Reflections on Failure, curated by Osmancan Yerebakan, Radiator gallery, Long Island City, USA
Digital Culture, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Korea
12th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
Do You Hear What I Hear?, curated by Anthony Elms, AIR Gallery, New York, USA
Spring Exhibition, curated by FOS, Molly Haslund, Anton Alvarez, Anders Abraham and Thorsten Sadowsky, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Digital Migration, curated by Judith Fegerl, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria *
Screening, curated by Ynin Shillo, International Video Art Festival «Now&After»,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Organizing Chaos, curated by Cristina Ghetti and Javier Marisco, Incubarte 7 International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
Wassaic Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, USA
Come to bed!, curated by Roya Sachs, BOSI Contemporary, New York, USA *
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (+ The Mistress Project), curated by Quang Bao,
68 Project, Berlin, Germany
Counterfeit for cash, curated by Douglas Paulson, Flux-Factory, New York, USA
2014
Screening, 6th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar For Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
OLE.01, co-curated by Lello Masucci and Roberta Iadevaia, Museum PAN, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy *
Don't even dream!, curated by Anna Buyvid, RuArts gallery, Moscow, Russia Screening curated by Anders Weberg, AIVA Video Art festival, Finspång, Sweeden
Gossips, curated by Lucja Wasko-Mandes, TRAFO, Szczecin, Poland *
Group show of the Finalists of Arte Laguna Prize curated by Domenico Quarranta, Venice Arsenale and Future Centre Telecom Italia, Venice, Italy *
Group show curated by BHQF, the Brucennial, New York, USA
Separation anxiety, curated by Lee Wells, WallPlay Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Ceci est un coeur, DUMBO Art Festival, New York, USA
2012
Screening, Video Guerrilha Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Screening, NAA New Media Festival, Barcelos, Portugal
Dystorpia, curated by Gabriel Roldós & Arlan Londoño, Queens Museum, New York Screening, 25th Les Instants International Art Festival, Marseille, France
Screening, VideoBites, Berlin, Germany
"L" , Smithsonian Folk Festival, Washington, DC, USA
Screening, Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
2011
The Palm Authority Project, Bayfront Park, Miami, USA
A show of heads, Limner gallery, New York, USA
Group Show, UAMO Art Festival, Munich, Germany *
All exhibitions with published catalogues are marked with an asterisk (*).