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Ziaka Maria

Date of birth: 01-01-1948
Art Works 42

BIOGRAPHY

1948: Born in Preveza.
1966-70: Studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
1970-74: Continued her studies in painting and engraving at the Byam Shaw School, painting at the City and Guilds of London Art School and interior design at Hammersmith-Chelsea in London.
1977: Together with nine other engravers she helped create the “Engravers” in Athens. They exhibit their work in Athens and many other Greek towns until 1980.
1985: Received First Prize for engraving from the School of “Fine Arts and Letters”.
1989: The group “Engraving Center" which exhibits in Greece and abroad was formed.
1997: Received First Prize for engraving from “Fine Arts and Letters”.

Her work can be found in the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, the Art Galleries of the Municipality of Rhodes, the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Municipality of Agia Paraskevi as well as the Ministry of Culture, the Rethymnon centre for Contemporary Art, Kanakakis Art Gallery and in private collections in Greece and abroad.

Solo Exhibitions
1976: Athens, The British Council
1979: Rhodes, "Prisma" Gallery
1980: Preveza, Labor Center
1982: Athens, “Dada” Gallery
1985: Kifissia, Ziaka-Sarelakou, "Epoches" Gallery
1986: Athens, “Medusa” Art Gallery
1988: Thessaloniki, "K7" Gallery
1989: Chalandri, "Chrysothemis" Gallery
1992: Athens, “Titanium” Gallery
1993: Katerini, "Chrysa" Art Gallery
1995: Athens, M.Ziaka-A. Pallieraki, Psychico Art Gallery
1996: Athens, “Anemos” Gallery
1998: Andros, Mazavelaki Gallery
1999: Athens, Kreonidis Gallery
1999: Ioannina, Amymone Gallery
2001: Kifissia, “Anemos” Gallery
2005: Athens, Skoufa Gallery

Group Exhibitions
1975: Athens, Panhellenia
1977: Athens, "Nees morfes" Gallery – “Sylogi” Gallery
           Kifissia, “Anemos” Gallery
1978: Athens, “Sylogi” Gallery - Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens
1979: Piraeus, "Piraeus Art Gallery”
1980: Athens, "Ora" Gallery, "Nees morfes" Gallery
1981: Kifissia, “Anemos” Gallery
1982: Athens, Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens
           Kifissia, "Epoches" Gallery
1983: Athens, Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens
           Rhodes, Municipal Art Gallery of Rhodes
1984: Kifissia, "Ziakas-Komianou-Nikolaidis” Yakinthos Gallery
1985: Athens, “Sylogi” Gallety - Athens Odeon, "Pleiades" Gallery
1986: Athens, “Ora” Gallery
1987: Athens, Panhellenia
1988: Kifissia, "Epoches" Gallery
1990: Athens, "Evmaros"
1996: Kifissia, “Anemos” Art Gallery
2001: Athens, Art Athina