Venia Bechrakis Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1974 -

Venia Bechrakis is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens and New York City.

Born in Athens, Greece, Bechrakis studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under professor Dimitris Mytaras. She won the Onassis Foundation Scholarship in 2000 and continued her studies at the New York University (MFA-Master in Fine Arts) in photography and video art with professors Peter Campus, Jack Risley and Sigrid Haackenberg. She received the Gerondelis Foundation Grant in 2001 and the Jack Goodman Award for Art & Technology, in 2002.

Bechrakis has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad: Strange Weathers, Melenia Art Gallery, Bucharest (2009), Urban Dwellings”, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki (2008), “Within-Without, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens (2006), Real Art Ways, Connecticut, granted by the National Endowment for the Arts (2003).

She has exhibited internationally in major international group shows, such as: “OpenXII” Lido Venice (2009), Face to Faces, 2nd Biennial of Thessaloniki, Museum of Photography Thessaloniki (2009),[1] Art Athina 2009, Zina Athanasiadou Gallery & Gallery Basia Embiricos,[2] Athens, “Art Photo Expo Miami”, Zone D and Galerie Basia Embiricos, Miami Art Basel, Miami (2008), “Material Links”, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai (2008),[3] “The Water”, Museum of Photography Thessaloniki (2008), “Heterotopias” (Public Screen, curated by Syrago Tsiara), 1st Biennial of Thessaloniki (2007), “The Chronicle of the Absurd“ (curated by Bia Papadopoulou), Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (2007), ‘Bodyconnections’, La Maison de la Photographie, Tashkent (2007), et al.