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.
Articles about Semeiko's art: by curator Ingrid Swenson read > by curator and art critic Andrew Hunt read > by curator Juri Cho read > by writer and art critic JJ Charlesworth read > by art historian Alberto Mugnaini read > Selected bibliography read >
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NEWS
Forthcoming
The Semeiko-Wang Nature Remembered Project, LM Studios, London Museum, 2025-26
Discourses, art publication, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2026
Ex Roma VI, APT Gallery, London, 2026
Cent'anni a Roma, The British School at Rome, 2026
NEWS
Recent
15 Orsman Road London N1 5RA
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Selected CV
Solo exhibitions and projects
2024 – On the Verge, postROOM Gallery, London, UK
2022 – Three Poems, installation for the façade, The British School at Rome, Italy
2021 – Emotionarama, PEER, London, UK
2021 – If Only, Georgian Embassy in London, UK
2021 – Vazha, Window Project, Rustaveli 37, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 – Metapolka, Simulacra Gallery, London, UK
2019 – Blue Horns, Erti Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 – Polka Dots and Curls, narrative projects, London, UK
2017 – Knights from Pshav-Khevsureti, State Museum of Literature, National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 – Towards Understanding Huai Su, Soulangh Culture Park, Tainan City, Taiwan
2014 – Only Words Can Tell You How I Feel, TAP, collab with Tom Morton, Southend-on-Sea, UK
2013 – An Artist’s Workshop for Unveiling Emotions, collab with S. O’Reilly, BALTIC, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2013 – Andro Semeiko: Open Studio, PEER, London, UK
2013 – The Holy Triangle, book launch, collab with S. O’Reilly & Z. Zinik, Waterstones Piccadilly, London, UK
2013 – The Holy Triangle, London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2012 – Le Grand Charmer, Phoenix Gallery, Exeter, UK
2010 – Unveiling, Berwick Museum and Gymnasium Art Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Group exhibitions and projects
2025 – Bigsweir, The Studio, Blakeney, UK
2025 – Blank Paper Protest, Letters from Georgia, Stone Nest, London, UK
2024 – How We Are Where We Are, collaboration with Yu-Chen Wang, Tate Modern, London, UK
2024 – Vazha Pshavela, President’s Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 – Equinox, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku, Azerbaijan
2022 – Nature Morte, Rowe Gallery, College of Art + Architecture, UNC Charlotte, USA
2021 – My Kid Could've Done That!, The Edge, The Holburne Museum, Bath, UK
2021– Swirl of Words /Swirl of Worlds, PEER, London, UK
2019 – Unveiling Vazha Pshavela, London Book Fair 2019, UK
2019 – Unveiling Vazha Pshavela, Artist's Book launch/ exhibition, Asia House, London, UK
2018 – 3rd TBILISI TRIENNIAL, Center of Contemporary Art-Tbilisi, Georgia
2018 – SUMUK Biennial, Nojeokbong Art Park Museum, South Korea
2018 – Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK
2017 – Icosahedral Prism, Seoul Museum of Art Nanji, South Korea
2017 – Nature Morte, Four Domes Pavilion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, Poland
2016 – Nostalgia for the Future, in collaboration with Yu-Chen Wang, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
2016 – Nature Morte, Hå Gamle Prestegard, Stavanger, Norway; Konsthallen vid Bohusläns Museum, Sweden
2015 – Florian Meisenberg’s performance, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
2014 – Teen Paranormal Romance, collaboration with Anna K.E., The Renaissance Society, Chicago, US
2011 – Bad Romance, project by Laura Edbrook and Norman James Hogg, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2010 – Happy End, Guest Projects - Yinka Shonibare Foundation, London, UK
2009 – Expanded Painting, PRAGUE BIENNALE 4, Prague, Czech Republic
Awards, Fellowships and Residencies
2022-23 – The Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School at Rome, Italy
2010-20 – Grants for the arts and AIDF, Arts Council England, UK
2017 – Seoul Museum of Art Nanji Residency, South Korea
2016 – Taipei Artist Village Residency, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 – Soulangh Residency, Soulangh Culture Park, Tainan City, Taiwan
2013 – PEER Residency, London, UK
2011 – Jessica Wilkes Award, Acme Studios, London, UK
2009 – Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship 2009-10, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
2004 – The British Institution Award, The Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2001 – New Contemporaries, Camden Art Center, London, UK