GEORGE KORDIS
CURRICULUM VITAE GEORGE KORDIS Athens, Greece
EDUCATION
1991 – Ph.D. in Theology and Byzantine Aesthetics, University of Athens, Greece
1989 – Postgraduate Master of Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts
1987-1989 – Studies in Medieval Techniques, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2008-2013 Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art, University of Athens, School of Theology, Athens, Greece
2003-2008 Lecturer, Byzantine Art, University of Athens, School of Theology, Athens, Greece
VISITING PROFESSOR
2004-2007 : Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music
2006-2007 : School of Theology, Department of Fine Art and Conservation, Bucharest, Romania
2005: Art and Design University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2006: Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, School of Theology, Boston
2006: Ukrainian National Pedagogical University, Odessa
2008: Orthodox Institute of Theology and Sacred Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011:&2012: University of South Carolina, Arts Department, Columbia, SC
2013, 2016: University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology and Institute for Church Life.
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 – Museum of World Religions, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 – National Museum of Romania, Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest, Romania
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2015 – Meklart Gallery, Paris France
2015 – Desmos Gallery, Paris France
2015 – Heavenly Beauty on Earth, Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Paris, France.
2015 – The Faces of EROS, The Burroughes, Toronto, ON.
Canada
2014-2015 – Between Worlds, The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton College, Oceanville, New Jersey, USA
2013 -Light and Rhythm. Byzantine icons in the Post-modern World, Yale, Institute Of Sacred Music Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2013 -Writing with Light, Malloy Hall Chapel, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
2013 -Byzantine Personalities, Theocharakis Foundation, Athens, Greece
2010 -Of the Unknown Warriors and Heroes, Municipal Gallery of Salonica, Villa Bianca.Greece
2010 -The Confession of a Point, Argo Gallery, Athens
2009 -Painting Exhibition, Municipal Gallery of Kavala, Greece
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2009 -Icons. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, National Gallery of Bulgaria ,Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 -Painting Exhibition, Amimoni Gallery, Ioannina, Greece
2008 -Eros- Archangel: Exhibition By Georgios Kordis, Yakintheia Summer Festival, Anogiea, Crete, Greece.
2008 -Municipal Gallery of Drama, Drama, Greece
2007-2008 -A Pictorial discussion with Nikos Eggonopoulos’ Poetry, Ianos Gallery, Salonica & Athens, Greece
2007-San Lorenzo Basilica, Tomba di Donatello, Florence, Italy
2007-George Seferis’ Thrush, Aenaon Gallery, Athens, Greece
2007 -George Seferis’ Thrush, Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Room, Yale University, USA
2006 -The Passion According to Mathew, Aenaon Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005-2006 -A Pictorial Approach to the Poetry of Nikos Kavadias Ianos Gallery, Salonica & Athens, Greece
2005 -The Chamber of the Innocent, Aenaon Gallery, Athens, Greece
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Tracing Istanbul”, Istanbul 2010: European Capital of Culture, Theology School of Chalke, Istanbul Icon Painting Exhibition,
2010 2nd Symposium of Greek Ecclesiastical Arts, Byzantine Museum of Athens
COMMISSIONS – WALL PAINTINGS
Saint Photeini Chapel, St. Ncholas Ranch, Dunlap , CA, USA
St. Catherine, Greek Orthodox Church, Braintree, MA, USA
St. George Orthodox Church, Fishers, Indiana, USA
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Carmel, Indiana, USA
St. Sofia Greek Orthodox Church, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, USA
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Church of Presentation of Christ to the Temple (Fanerwmeni), Athens, Greece
Church of St. Nicholas, Beirut, Lebanon
Church of the Dormition of Mary, Athens, Greece
Monastery of Docheiariou, Mount Athos
AWARDS
2015 State of South Carolina, House of Representatives, Commendation and Recommendations for their artistic efforts on the Decoration of the Church of Holy Trinity, Columbia SC.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA
2014 BYZANTIUM: Ottawa International Byzantine Arts Symposium, Ottawa Ontario ( Lecturer and Organize)
2012 5th International Symposium of Ecclesiastical Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2011 4th International Symposium of Ecclesiastical Arts, New Valamo Monastery, Finland
2010 3rd International Symposium of Ecclesiastical Arts, Orthodox Institute of Ecclesiastical Arts, St Petersburg, Russia
2010 2nd Atelier international de pictura bisericeasca, Iassi, Romania
2009 1st International Symposium of Ecclesiastical Painting, School of Theology, University of Salonica, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Egg Tempera: Color as light in Byzantine Painting (Athens: Armos)
2007 The Character and the Reason of the Abstraction in Byzantine Painting (Athens: Armos)
2006 The ‘Ermeinia’ of Dionysios of Fourna: an Aesthetic and Artistic Response (Athens: Armos)
2006 Tradition and Creativity in the Work of Fotis Kontoglou (Athens: Armos)
2005 On the Character of Greek Folk Art (Athens: Armos)
2002 The Iconology of St Photius and Sacred Art in the Post-Iconoclast Period (Athens:Armos)
2001 Greek Folk Painting as Consolation (Athens: Armos)
2001 Fayum Portraits and Byzantine Icons (Athens: Armos)
2000 Icons (Athens: Armos)
2000 The Icon as Communion (Athens: Armos). Translated in English, Serbian, Romanian, Finish, Russian, and Spanish. French will be available in 2016.
1998 Faces in the Icons of Theophan the Cretan and the Use of Color: An Aesthetic Reading
(Athens: Armos)
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE ARTIST
2010 Trivizadaki, A., “Georgios Kordis on the 1821 Revolution”, in Georgios Kordis: Of the Unknown Warriors and Heroes Exhibition Catalogue, Municipal Gallery of Salonica
2010
Gakis, V., “On the Work of Georgios Kordis”, in Georgios Kordis: Of the Unknown Warriors and Heroes Exhibition Catalogue, Municipal Gallery of Salonica
2010
Heliopoulou, Rogan, O., “Introduction”, in Georgios Kordis: The Confession Of A Point Exhibition Catalogue, Argo Gallery
2009
Shina, A., “Introduction”, in Georgios Kordis: Of the Unknown Warriors and Heroes
2009 Exhibition Catalogue, Ellinogermaniki Agogi (Athens)
2010
Zias, N., “Georgios Kordis’ Painting and the 1993 Transformation of Everyday Life”, in Georgios Kordis: Painting (Athens: Armos)
2007
Shina, A., “Introduction”, in The Fleeting Dreams of Joy: A pictorial discussion with the poetry of Nikos Eggonopoulos (Salonica: Ianos)
2007
Nelson, Robert, S., “George Seferis’ Thrush in Painting: An Exhibit by Artist Georgios Kordis”, in George Seferis’ Thrush in Painting Exhibition Catalogue, Yale University
1996
Tzotzola, V., “Achlios, Kichli, Kyklia”, in George Seferis’ Thrush: A pictorial Approach by Georgios Kordis (Athens: Armos)
2007
Zouraris, K., “Georgios Kordis: Personifications, in Georgios Kordis: Catalogue, (Athens: Armos)
1995
Triantafyllopoulos, N. “Contemporary and Old Art”, in Enopia Pamfanoonta Exhibition Catalogue, (Athens: Armos)
1995
Zias, N. “Georgios Kordis on Fotis Kontoglou”, in Enopia Pamfanoonta Exhibition Catalogue (Athens: Armos,
1994
Plessa, E., “Georgios Kordis: From the Spiritual to the Earthly”, Δελτίο Διοικήσεως Επιχειρήσεων 33, 285,
1993
Xinopoulos, K., G., “The Icon Painting Work of Georgios Kordis”, Introduction in Christmas Short Stories (Athens: Armos)
