Kirillos Veniadis was born in Greece in
1936
Having won the 1 st place in entrance examinations, he was awarded a state
scholarship and graduated the Athens "School of Fine Arts"
(Studio of Giannis Moralis 1957 -1961) with honors and prizes.
In 1961 he was appointed Professor of Art in the Discipline of Painting at
(Doxiadis Athens Technological institute), a position he held until he
left Greece in 1972.
From 1959 to 1972 Veniadis was working with and under the guidance of the
renowned Artist and teacher Spiros Vassiliou.
Individual Exhibitions
1968 Astor Gallery, Athens
1970 New Gallery, Athens
* 1972 Ora Gallery, Athens
1975 Veniadis Art Studio Montreal
1976 Greek Culture Center, Ottawa
* Which saw the purchase of one of his painting by
the National Gallery of Athens
Group Exhibitions
1958 Zygos Gallery, Athens
1958 Liner Olympia Athens-New-York
1959 Young European Artist Geneva'
1959 New Gallery Athens
1960 Sarla Gallery Rome
1960 6th Panhellenic Exhibition, Zappion Gallery, Athens
1961 1 st Panhellenic Exhibition for young Artist, Athens
1962 Second Penhellenic Exhibition for Young Artist, Athens
1962 8th Panhellenic Exhibition Zappion Gallery. Athens
1963 New Young Artist, School of Fine Arts, Athens
1964 Five Greek Artist, Doxiadis Technological Institute Athens
1964 3rd Panhellenic for Young Artist, Athens
1967 5th Biennale of Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Kirillos Veniadis
represented Greece
Prizes
1961 1 st prize ( Gallery of Athens) annual October exhibition
1961 2nd prize, the French Institute of Athens for the painting
" De mon lie"
1962 2nd of prize, 2nd Panhellenic Exhibition for Young Artist
1964 2nd of prize, 3rd Panhellenic Exhibition for Young Artist
1967 1 st prize by Minister of Education and Cultural Affaires for the
painting "Landscape in October"
During the period of the dictatorship in Greece (1967 -1974) as a teacher
he refused to cooperate with the regime, nod thus suffered threats and 2
attempts on his life that were masked as traffic accidents ( July 10 1968)
April 12 1972. These events made him look for refuge in Canada.
The riots of the Politechnion the very school Veniadis graduated from
where tens of students were killed by the Hunda found Veniadis in Montreal.
As response he created series of paintings that were shown
in two exhibitions, in Montreal (1975) and Ottawa 1976 and today are owned
by private collectors. Two of those paintings are kept by the Artist.
..Rigopoulou" named after a student who lost her legs in a tank attack
and ., Komninos" named after a student who was killed at the age 17.
Two others were donated by the artist to the Greek Cultural Center, and to
the Organization for the liberation for Cyprus in Montreal.
The present exhibition includes works that were done in the last 3 years.
Paintings of various styles and inspirations such as memories from Greece,
Israel portraits and North American scenes.
Last exhibition August 1994 in Public art Gallery of Chios
Kyrillos Veniadis has died on a rainy
Saturday, the 15th of April 1995.
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