Biography

Alex Anagnostou, born in Toronto, has danced around with the visual arts for over 25 years. Sculpting blown and sandcast glass since 2000, much of her work is inspired by how glass has expanded our ability to see on a microscopic and macroscopic level. Her sculptures explore issues of time, space, nature, energy and interconnectedness. In particular, the filaments series  of freestanding and hanging installations was inspired by brain synapse activity and how these web patterns are emulated in filament structures within cells as well as light patterns within the universe. The sandcast glass Inner Space series explores issues of how we look upon the world, refers to personal dreams of travel and aremap-like in appearance. The glass expresses the space that we often forget, between the earth and the ozone layer.

Alex is an artist in residence at the Living Arts Centre glass studio where she sculpts cast and blown glass. She holds two fine art-related degrees from the University of Toronto 1988 (B.A. Fine Arts Management) and the University of Western Ontario 1994 (B.Ed. Visual Arts) and graduated with a silver medal in from the School of Crafts and Design Glass Program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada.

She has managed her own gallery while living abroad in Thailand and has traveled extensively seeking to expand her view of the world and how individuals express themselves. She has served as an art teacher and arts administrator and has received twelve awards including a scholarship from the Glass Art Society, a residency at Harbourfront Centre and three Hon. Mention awards at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

An internationally acclaimed artist, Alex was selected by the British Crafts Council to exhibit at Collect 2008 held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom and this November is her 3rd year showing of work at SOFA Chicago, an international exposition of fine sculptural objects. Alex's work is represented in galleries in across Canada, the U.S. and in the U.K. and is in three TV movies filmed in Canada: At Risk, The Front and The One that Got Away. Her unique glass sculpture was selected for numerous juried exhibitions including the Glass Art Association of Canada's National Emerging Glass Art Exhibition, the Contemporary Craft Museum Gallery in Portland, Le Verre "hot", held at Centre Materia in Quebec City. Solo exhibitions include Material Matters in Toronto in 2007 and Galerie Elena Lee, Montreal in April 2009. Recently her glass artwork was included in the Canadiana State Fund Art Collection, the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia and is soon to be in the Glasmuseet collection in Denmark. In 2009 she was awarded an Ontario Arts Council grant and her "Seeding Clouds" hanging installation will be shown at the Cheongjiu International Craft Biennale in Korea and as part of a tour during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.

Curriculum Vitae

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