Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 374/Γ/22.04.2008

Nikos Navridis was born in Athens. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Since 2008, he has been teaching Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. 

Solo and group exhibitions (selection) : ΠΥΛΕΣ – PORTALS, NEON Foundation  – Hellenic Parliament Library, former Public Tobacco Factory, 2021/ Noli me tangere. 

The Artist on the Composer, Greek National Opera, NEON Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, 2019 / When You Sing, Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Brussels and Athens, 2019 / Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More, Riga Biennial, Latvia, 2018 / ANTIDORON, Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, 2017 /

Genii Loci. The MANEGE, Saint Petersburg, 2016 / Between the pessimism…5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 2015 / Fear Nothing, She Says. National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid, Spain, 2015/ 

No Country for young men. Bozar, Brussels, 2014 / A Thousand Doors. Gennadius Library, ΝΕΟΝ Foundation, Whitechapel Gallery, Athens, 2014 /  

Fail Better, Aeschylia Festival, Elefsina, 2013 / Respiro, ZOE Foundation, Vicenza, 2010 / Visual Dialogues, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, 2010 / Zina Athanasiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki, 2010 / The First Image, Centre for Contemporary Art, Sète, France, 2009 / Transexperiences Greece, 798 Art District, Beijing, 2008 / Take a Deep Breath, Tate Modern, London, 2007 / Magnus Müller Gallery, Berlin, 2006 / Venice Istanbul, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, 2006 / Always a Little Further, 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, 2005 / Nuit Blanche 2004, Hôpital Saint-Lazare, Paris / Difficult Breaths, La Caixa Foundation, Madrid, 2004 / 2nd Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan, 2003 /

Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale, Greek National Pavilion, 2001 / Trans Sexual Express: A Classic for the Third Millennium, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona; Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest; Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Kiosko Alfonso, A Coruña, 2002 / Leaving the Island, PICAF, Busan Metropolitan Museum of Art, South Korea, 2000 / Friends and Neighbors, EVA 2000, Limerick, Ireland /

Looking for a Place, 3rd SITE Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico, 1999 /

Nikos Navridis, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 1999 /

Medialization, Edsvik Art Centre, Sollentuna, Stockholm; Art Museum of Estonia, 1999 / Hot Air, Granship Performing Arts Center, Shizuoka, Japan, 1999 / Nikos Navridis Köln Sculpture, Art Cologne ’98, Cologne, Germany / On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties, 5th Istanbul Biennale, 1997 / Dematerialization: The Problem of the Antiquity of the Void, Nikos Navridis, 23rd São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, 1996.