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 selected CV:
Solo exhibitions and projects
2024 On the Verge, postROOM Gallery, London
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
SELECTED Group exhibitions and projects
2025 Blank Paper Protest, Letters from Georgia, Stone Nest, London
2024 How We Are Where We Are, collaboration with Yu-Chen Wang, Tate Modern, London
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