Alma Bakiaj
Education
2021–2022
MA Fine Art, Middlesex University, London, UK
2014
Critical Theory and Contemporary Art Practice (Short Course), Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London, UK
2010–2011
MFA, School of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina, Greece
2003–2008
BA Fine Arts, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Teaching Experience
2020–2023
Art Teacher, London, United Kingdom
2014–2015
Art Teacher, Greece
2011
Art Teacher, Greece
Awards & Scholarships
2012
Scholarship, Pavlos & Elisabet Papagianopoulou Foundation
2011
Ioannis Latsis Foundation Awards, University of Ioannina
2010
Ioannis Latsis Foundation Awards, University of Ioannina
Scholarship, Lilian Voudouri Foundation
2008
Commendation, 5th Biennale of Students of Schools of Fine Arts of Greece
2007
Commendation, Belle Arte Lamia, Greece
2005
Scholarship, Academy of Athens (Undergraduate Studies in Paris)
2003
1st Prize of Painting, 9th Panhellenic Peripheral School Competition of Painting, Thessaloniki
Selected Exhibitions
2026
21 Questions, GOEN Project, Safehouse 1, London
2025
Open Studios, Make Space Studios, London
2022
Thessaloniki–Venezia: Traces of People, Paths of History, History Museum of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki–Venezia: Traces of People, Paths of History, Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia
2021
ALMANAC, The Coningsby Gallery, London
BARNstorm, MA Show, Middlesex University, London
Ealing B.E.A.T Art Trail, London
SYNIME – Ambitions, National Gallery of Arts, Kosovo
SYNIME – Ambitions, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
2018
New Horizons of European Painting III, Frissiras Museum, Athens
2017
REMbrand Name Project, Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki
2015
Not Quite There (Watercolor Project), Myro Gallery, Thessaloniki
2014
WIN Exhibition: Spirit of Womanhood, Gallery@OXO, London
Live in Your Dreams!, The Crypt Gallery, London
Obsession: Love, Ritual, Collection, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2013
Thrills and Chills, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery, Athens
Floating Walls, Kodra Fresh, Thessaloniki
2012
Inspire Festival, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2011
XV Biennale de la Méditerranée – Symbiosis?, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens
DA International Digital Art Festival, National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria
Two-Person Exhibitions
2015
Double Feature #2: Alma Bakiaj & Viola Bittl, Tirana Art Lab, Albania
2012
Anamorphosis, Folklore Museum of Ioannina, Greece
Workshops
2013
Metamorphosis – Inspire Festival, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2012
The World is Not Enough – Inspire Festival, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2004
Ibrahim Calli International Painting Workshop, Pamukkale, Turkey
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