Elaine Angelopoulos lives and works in New York City. She is an artist with an interdisciplinary approach that bridges her studio practice with audience participation, with select installations and performances. Her work has been exhibited in New York, the United States, and in Europe. Angelopoulos received a Franklin Furnace Fund/Jerome Fellowship in 2014/15. Recently, she performed for POPc, an organization that fosters dialogue about philosophy.
Her work was included in the following group exhibitions: Still Utopia, an exhibition of Esquisite Corpse drawings, curated by Simonetta Moro, and Aga Ousseinov, at the Circolo Ricreativo Culturale, Venice, Italy; Inside, Outside, and Beyond, curated by Antonia Papatzanaki at the Greek Consulate in New York; Body, curated by Katya Grokhovsky in the Art in Odd Places Performance Festival and Exhibition in New York City; Currents: “Abortion”, curated by Barbara Zucker, at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York; Art on the Front Lines curated by Ronald Feldman, at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City; and Utopia=Reality, in Labin/Istria, Croatia, curated by Lucrezia Domizio de Durini. Angelopoulos has been an advisor and participant in numerous art collectives.
Since 1989 Angelopoulos has served as Chief Preparator and Co-Manager of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc. in New York. Beginning in 2009, Angelopoulos has been a private consultant to artists and their career strategies, providing private instruction of video editing practices with artists.
Education
MFA 2009 Interdisciplinary Studio and Theory. Maine College of Art
BFA 1987 Major: Painting; Minor: Communications Design. Pratt Institute (Cum Laude)
Awards & Grants
2018: Alumni Residency at Maine College of Art
2014/15: Franklin Furnace Fund
2013: Nominated for Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
2012: Honorarium Recipient from Amplify Action/Pratt Institute
2010: Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art
2010: Honorarium Recipient from Five Myles Gallery
2009: Maine College of Art Student Scholarship since 2007
2006: Honorarium Recipient from SUNY Plattsburgh
2003: Jerome Fellowship Recipient through Franconia Sculpture Park
1986: Recipient of a Charles A. Dana Foundation Student Award
1983: Pratt Competitive Scholarship
Professional Organizations
Current Alumni Council, Maine College of Art
2016 Advisory Board Member: Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War
Since 2010 American Association of Museums
Since 2000 Artist Membership, College Art Association
Since 1987 Alumni Member, Pratt Institute
Collectives
2018 We Make America – artist collective for visual fabrication of signage for street demonstrations
2017 T.W.A.T. (The Woman’s Artist Team) – Artists who assemble personal works for collective installations and performances
2013 Arts and Labor – Working Group focused on the rights of artists and service occupations in the art industry
2007 Artist’s Against the War – Fiscal sponsorship with A.J. Muste Foundation since 2004
1999 Brooklyn Pro-Choice since 1989
1993 Woman’s Action Coalition (intermittent participation in actions with Act-UP NY, The Lesbian Avengers, ILGO, and WHAM since 1991
1990 Coalition Opposed to Censorship in the Arts and the Artist’s Coalition for the Freedom of Expression since 1989
