Andro Semeiko, a Georgian-born, London-based artist, creates paintings, installations, and artist's books based on research into history, art history, literature, and psychology. His paintings and "expanded painting" installations explore ways of communicating through language, text, calligraphy, automatic writing, doodling, drawing, performance, and dance. Semeiko's work seeks to record and create psychological spaces, with a particular focus on the socio-political aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He has collaborated with writers, historians, scientists, actors, dancers, and other artists, resulting in artist's books and related events and exhibitions.
Semeiko has shown his work at the Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, PEER, Gasworks, Holburne Museum, CFCCA, The Lowry, BALTIC 39, Museum of Contemporary Art Wroclaw, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Seoul Museum of Art, and international art exhibitions including Expander Painting, Prague Biennial 4, Czech Republic, Glasgow International 2012 and 3rd Tbilisi Triennial, Georgia. His awards and fellowships include Kunstanjer from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds 2000, British Institution Award from the RA Summer Exhibition 2004, Berwick Fellowship from the English Heritage 2009, and Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome 2022-23.
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Semeiko's recent CV:
'Blank Paper Protest', 'Letters from Georgia', Stone Nest, London (4 March 2025)
'On the Verge', postROOM gallery, London (until 7 December 2024)
'How We Are Where We Are', Collaboration with Yu-Chen Wang, Tate Modern, London (until 6 October 2024)
'Vazha Pshavela', Orbeliani Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia (April - August 2024)
'Equinox', YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan (December 2023 - April 2024)
BSR Summer Open Studio, The British School at Rome (June 2023)
'Ruins of Empires' (solo) installation for the Facade of the British School at Rome (December 2022)
'If Only', The Embassy of Georgia to the UK, London (January 2022 - January 2023)
'Nature Morte', Rowe Gallery, Charlotte, USA (September - November 2022)
'Emotionarama', installation and listening room installation, CUBE, Moscow, Russia (January 2022)
'My Kinds Could've Done That', The Holburne Museum at the Edge, Bath, UK (September -December 2021)
'Emotionarama', book launch and listening room installation, PEER, London, UK (until 28 August 2021)
'Swirl of Words/ Swirl of Worlds', PEER, London, UK (4 June - 14 August 2021)
'Vazha', (solo), Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia (9 April - 9 June 2021)
'METAPOLKA', (solo), Simulacra Gallery, London, UK (3 November - 23 December 2020)
'Low Lows to High Highs', Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia (25 August - 20 September 2020)
'Blue Horns' (solo), ERTI Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia (25 October - 25 November 2019)
Georgian National Book Center presents 'Unveiling Vazha Pshavela', London Book Fair 2019, UK (10-14 March 2019)
'Sergei Parajanov: Reminiscence', film installation, Close-Up Cinema, London (8-10 March 2019)
'Unveiling Vazha Pshavela', artist's book launch and exhibition, Asia House, London, UK (1 March 2019)
'Polka Dots and Curls' (solo), narrative projects, London, UK (22 November 2018 - 26 January 2019)
'The Will/ ნება', 3rd Tbilisi Triennial, Center for Contemporary Art - Tbilisi, Georgia (1 October - 1 November 2018)
Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale, Nojeonbong Art Park & Museum, South Korea (30 August - 31 October 2018)
'Nature Morte', Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK (7 September 2017 - 2 April 2018)