SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS AND PROJECTS
2024-26 Fractured Circle, a permanent interactive stone installation on the waterfront, Koum Kapi, Chania, Crete
2023 Cris Gianakos: Works on Mylar 1983-1989, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Journey, Citronne Gallery, Poros, Greece
2019 Cris Gianakos: SITE, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Crete, Greece
2017 Cris Gianakos: 1975, Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Graphic Art from Atelje Larsen: Cris Gianakos – Geometrics, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2016 Cris Gianakos: RAMPWORKS, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Spira Didimo, Fortezza, Rethymnon, Crete; commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece
2013 Dialogues with Time: Cris Gianakos, Archeological Museum, Poros, Greece
2012 Cris Gianakos: Prints + Drawings, VanDeb Editions Gallery, New York, NY
2010-11 Prospelasis, Heptapyrgion, the Rotunda of Galerius, and Byzantine churches, Thessaloniki, Greece;
commissioned by Transport Systems Research Group, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and The Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki City (permanent installation)
2009 Cris Gianakos: Signal, Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Cris Gianakos: Signal, IKSU Spa, Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå, Sweden
2008 Cris Gianakos, Gallery Citronne, Poros, Greece
2006 Cris Gianakos, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2005
2005 Cris Gianakos: Sculpture, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Olympic Gridlock, Roman Cistern Athens, Greece; commissioned by Athina by Art, 2004 Olympics
2003 Cris Gianakos: Double Cross, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2003 Cris Gianakos, Kulturens Hus, Luleä, Sweden
2003 Cris Gianakos: Metropolis, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
2003 Cris Gianakos, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
2002 The Victory Section I and II, 561 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY (permanent installation)
2002 Cris Gianakos, MOMus State Museum of Contemporary Art, Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 Cristos Gianakos: Double Cross, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Pod, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (permanent installation)
2000 Cristos Gianakos, Stark Gallery, Crosby Street Project Space, New York, NY
2000 Gridlock, MOMus State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (permanent installation)
1999 South Horizon, Moriches Bay Park, NY
1999 Soma, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (permanent installation)
1998 Three Corten Cubes, City Library, Härnösand, Sweden (permanent installation)
1998 Cristos Gianakos, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
1997 Cristos Gianakos: Sculpture, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Cristos Gianakos, Thessaloniki Design Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
1997 Cristos Gianakos: Crossing, View Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Gridlock, Alaça Imaret, Thessaloniki, Greece; commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for the
European Capital of Culture
1996 Cristos Gianakos Working Drawings, 560 Broadway, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
1995 Maroussi Ramp, Emfietzoglou Art Center, Athens, Greece (permanent installation)
1995 Cristos Gianakos: Kouros, European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Delphi, Greece
1994 Cristos Gianakos, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
1994 Morpheus II, French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, Hancock, New York, NY
1993 Cristos Gianakos, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Cristos Gianakos, Galerie Von Der Tann, Berlin, Germany
1993 Cristos Gianakos, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Cristos Gianakos: Peintures et Graveures, Le Salon d'Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
1991 Cristos Gianakos: Altered Sites, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
1991 Cristos Gianakos: Immediate Reference, An Installation of Recent Work, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Cristos Gianakos, Le Salon d'Art, Bruxelles, Belgium
1990 Cristos Gianakos: Pelagos, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Wanås Ramp, Wanås Sculpture Park, Knislinge, Sweden
1990 Orion, Wanås Sculpture Park, Knislinge, Sweden (long-term installation)
1989 Cristos Gianakos, Julian Pretto/Berland Hall Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Cristos Gianakos: RAMPWORKS, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1989 Cul De Sac II, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1988 Cristos Gianakos: Deja Vu, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York
1988 Styx, C W Post College of Long Island University, Brookville, NY (permanent installation)
1986 Cristos Gianakos, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Gianakos, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden; Galeria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, Finland; Galeri Riis, Oslo, Norway;Galleri Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden
1985 Gemini, Kockums Shipyard, Malmö Harbour, Sweden; commissioned by Skånes Konstförening, Malmö (permanent installation)
1985 Cristos Gianakos: Nya Arbeten, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1982 Dark Passage, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1985 Cristos Gianakos: Sculptures and Drawings, Galleriet, Lund, and Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö Sweden
1982 Eclipse, West Broadway and Chambers Streets, New York, NY; commissioned by the Public Art Fund
1981 Cristos Gianakos, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Cristos Gianakos: Morpheus, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Cristos Gianakos, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
1979 Cristos Gianakos: Pelagos, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Elevated Horizontal Planes, Tishman Building, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
1977 Cristos Gianakos: Highbridge, 55 Mercer Street, New York, NY
1977 Proto Ramp Installation (Ramp 1), Keene, NY
1975 Cristos Gianakos: The Queen’s Megaron, 55 Mercer Street, New York, NY
1973 Cristos Gianakos, Hundred Acres, New York, NY
1972 Cristos Gianakos, Hundred Acres, New York, NY
1970 Untitled, NBC-TV Studios, Today Show with John Bartholomew Tucker, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 On Balance—New Work by American Abstract Artists, curated by Mary Birmingham, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
2022 BALLOTS NOT BULLETS It Was, White Box, Curated by Juan Puentes and Raul Zamudio
2022 Fine Art Print Fairs: Baltimore, Cleveland, New York Alternative
2022 3 DIMENSIONS +, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Dromonero, Crete
2022 Atelje Larsen 50 year in 2022 Anniversary, Kunstverket Galleri, Oslo, Norway
2021 Welcome back America, schauraum multipleart, Zurich
2020 Performing Authorship/31 Days in March, Curated by Saul Ostrow for CPI Curricula, March 1-31 PS122Gallery NYC
2020 Ars Longa, Citronne Gallery, Athens, Greece
2020 COLOR, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Untitled (Summer) exhibition, Minus Space
2019 Ramp Archetype, Greek Post-war Abstraction, 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
2019 Do Not Open), Mykonos Biennale-Apathia, Treasure Hunt on Delos Island, Greece
2019 Welcome – The European Hospitality and its Borders, Project Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018 Sculptural Editions and Multiples, schauraum multipleart, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 Beyond Black and White, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Dual Current: Inseparable Elements in Painting and Architecture, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture + UT Downtown, Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (permanent installation); traveled to Clara M. Eagle Galleries, Murray State University, Murray, KY; Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2017 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 On Paper, Paris Koh Fine Arts, New York, NY
2017 New Installations of Sculptures by Cris Gianakos, Mark Hadjipateras and Alex Mylona, MOMus Alex Mylona,
Athens, Greece (long-term installation)
2016 Russell Maltz and some American Friends, schauraum multipleart, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 #makeamericagreatagain, live at the Republican and Democrat caucuses, hosted by White Box, New York, NY
2016 On Paper, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015 40: The Anniversary Exhibition, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Accíones en la Calle: Street Works in New York and Latin America circa 1970, Amelie A. Wallace Art Gallery at the State University of New York (SUNY), Old Westbury, NY
2015 Welcome – The European Hospitality and its Borders, Museum of Contemporary Art — OlivePress Art Foundation,
Chania, Crete; traveled to Rethymnon and Heraklion, Crete
2015 10 Summers, Citronne Gallery, Poros, Greece
2015 Beauty Is the Method, American College of Greece, Athens (curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis)
2015 Elements, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015 TwoBlacksOneRed, Ventana244, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Transcendental Geometry, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 Red, Yellow and Blue—Cris Gianakos, Peter Hahne, Sean Scully, Galleri Andersson/Sandstrom, Umeå, Sweden
2014 Elective Meetings, XaniaArt2014, Megaro Trianon, Chania, Crete
2014 Reflections on Art and Literature, Lo and Behold, Athens, presented at rosalux, Berlin
2013 Primary Sources: Documenting SVA and the New York Art World, 1966-1985, Visual Arts Gallery
2013 Julian Pretto Gallery, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Tribute to Kavafis, ChaniaArt2013, Cultural Centre of Chania, Crete
2013 Plans for a Summer, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2013 The PATHS: Charting, Navigating & Bridging, Simons Center Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2013 The Architectural Object, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
2013 Black+White, Van Deb Editions Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Extending the Line II, Project Space in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach, Arevalo Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Works from the Permanent Collection, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2012 Extending the Line I, Inaugural Exhibition of Project Space, Arevalo Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales, Multiple Cultural Venues, Oaxaca, Mexico (curated by Matthew Deleget and Emi Winter)
2012 The Other Greece: A Benefit Exhibition to Support Art and Education, Kouros Gallery under the auspices of the
Consulate General of Greece in New York, New York, NY
2012 Spring Benefit and Auction, White Box, New York, NY
2012 Coup de dés – Memory of Present, private villa, Lietzensee, Berlin, Germany
2011 Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics, The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
2011 Accrochage 2011, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Under Pressure, Master Graphics from Atelje Larsen, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2011 Where Is Ai Weiwei? White Box and Human Rights Watch, New York, NY
2011 Polyglossia, Alexander S. Onassis Exhibition Hall, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2010 Artpark: 1974-1984, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY
2010 10 x 10, White Box Decade-End Art Sale, New York, NY
2010 Accrochage, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Sculptures in the Garden, Cephalonia Botanica, Cephalonia, Greece (long-term installation)
2009 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Van Deb Editions, New York, NY
2008 The Winter Salon, Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Summer Group Show, Van Deb Editions Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Silent Dialogues: Multi-Media Portraits Throughout Time, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece
2007 International Art Show on Paper, Col Patrocinio dell’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Cesena, Italy
2007 Ithaca Regained: Greek Artists in New York, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Made in USA, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
2006 Modernism, Sanford L. Smith & Associates, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2006 The Stamos Group, 1975-1993, Cultural Center of Municipality of Lefkada, Greece
2006 Prints from VanDeb Editions, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2006 18th Annual Works on Paper, New York, NY
2005 Cris Gianakos and William Hall: A Twenty Year Collaboration, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2004 Yellow Pages, Cabinet des Estampes du Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Mamco, Musée d’art modern et contemporain,
Geneva, Switzerland
2004 Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2004 New Etchings and Monoprints, VanDeb Editions, New York, NY
2002 Places in Our Lives, Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Dakar, Senegal
2002 Umedalen Sculpture 02, Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå, Sweden (permanent installation)
2002 Aesthetic Balance, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Intrepid, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Space, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2001 Spring Group Show, Betty Wasserman Art & Interiors, New York, NY
2001 Shoes or No Shoes? Het Museum Voor Schoene Kunsten, Ghent, Flanders
2000 Heavy Metal, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000 Art in Embassies Program of the US Department of State, sponsored by Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas, Official
Residence in Dakar, Senegal
2000 Design Routes, Design Museum Thessaloniki, Athens, Greece
2000 Generation of '60's (Selection), Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
1999 Modern Odysseys: Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; traveled to National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum of Greece, Athens
1999 Sculpture in the Window, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Summer exhibition, Galerie Anhava Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1999 My Girlfriend Iris, Pamplemousse Press, New York, NY
1999 Bladen, Gianakos, Bill, Josephson, Zoderer, Long, Haerle, Serra, Rossi, Dedelley, Max Bill Georges Vantongerloo
Foundation, Zumikon, Switzerland (permanent installation)
1999 Footfalls '99, Maritime Museum, Greenport, NY
1998 Prints and Drawings, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Sculptors Draw, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Den Stokiga Samtiden I En Slottspark, Wanås Sculpture Park, 1987-1997, Skissernas Museun, Lund, Sweden
1998 Umedalen Skulptur 98, Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå, Sweden
1998 Umea Kultur (UMESE), Broparken, Umeå, Sweden (permanent installation)
1998 School of Visual Arts Gold: Fifty Years of Creating Graphic Design, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
1998 Open Salvo, White Box Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Large-scale: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1998 Works on Paper: Modern & Contemporary Sculptors, 2 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Excudit, Ateije Larsen, Vikingsbergs Konstmusem, Helsingborg, Sweden
1997 Possessions II, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1997 New York Visions: The William Zimmer Gift to Reading Public Museum, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
1997 Drawing from Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1997 One of a Kind, Rosenberg-Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
1997 Sit on This: The Chair as Art, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
1996 Umedalen Sculpture 96, Umedalen Sculpture Park, Umeå, Sweden (permanent installation)
1995 Drawings, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
1994 Ten, Printmaking Workshop Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
1993 Floor Show, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1993 The Printmaking Workshop, Bob Blackburn's Collection, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland,OH
1993 Ramp Piece, Art Athina '93, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
1993 The Tenth Summer, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1993 New Directions in Two Dimensions, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
1993 Drawings From 55 Ferris Street, Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
1992 In the Public Space, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
1992 The Printmaking Workshop: Bob Blackburn’s Collection, The Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
1992 55 Ferris Street Show, 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Geometric Considerations, Capital Cities/ABC, Art Advisory Service, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991 Drawings From 55 Ferris Street, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Bob Blackburn Print Collection, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Painting Into Object, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Drawings, Ruggiero Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Large Scale, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Out of Doors: Diversity in Environmental Sculpture, Kouros Gallery Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CT
1990 Works From the Permanent Collection, Malmö Kunsthall, Sweden
1990 Group Exhibition, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Almost White, The Municipal Gallery of Lefkas, Lefkas, Greece
1990 Cristos Gianakos, Michael Gitlin, Andrew Topolski - Sculpture and Drawings, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1990 The Word, The Municipal Gallery of Lefkada, Lefkas, Greece
1990 Contemporary Fresco, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History, IBM Gallery of Art & Science, New York, NY; traveled to WalkerArt Center, Minneapolis, MN; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Design Museum at Butler's Wharf, London
1989 Valentines: Red Hearts and Flying Cupids, Sabbeth Gallery, Glen Cove, NY
1989 Drawings, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Contemporary Abstract Drawings, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
1989 New Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
1989 Printmaking Workshop, Gallery Asback, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989 Works from the Permanent Collection, Malmö Konsthall; traveled to Brandts Klaedes Fabrik, Odense, Denmark
1988 Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1988 A Contemporary Celebration: Exploring the Foundations of Sculpture, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Art Symposium, Minos Beach Hotel, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
1988 The Modern Poster, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1988 Summer Group Show, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Summer Group Show, Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Moving Experiences: The Art and Science of Kinetics, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, NJ
1988 Twenty-Four Cubes, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
1988 Works from the Porkkana Permanent Collection, Old Student House Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1988 Printmaking Workshop, Grafiska Sallskapets Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
1988 Sculptors' Proposals for Large-Scale Works, 14 Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
1988 December Group Exhibition, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 The Red and the Black, The Municipal Gallery, Lefkada, Lefkas, Greece
1987 Excavation, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Drawings of the Eighties, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Diamonds are Forever - Artists and Writers on Baseball, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveled to New York State Museum, Albany, NY
1987 Black, Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Nyle Press - The First Year, Nyle Press, New York, NY
1987 The Old and the New, The Municipal Gallery of Lefkada, Lefkas, Greece
1987 Outside In, Socrates Sculpture Park at Columbus Circle City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs City of New York, NY
1987 Recent Acquisitions, Art Bank Program, United States Department of State, Washington, DC
1987 Petit Format, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Group Sculpture Exhibition, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1987 Walk On/Sit Down/Go Through, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
1986 Selected Works From the Permanent Collection, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1986 New York Collaboration: Prints from Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1986 Opening Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Monotypes, Oscarsson Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY
1985 5 Sculptors, Linkoping Museum, Linkoping, Sweden
1985 Works on Paper by Gallery Artists, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Five and Dime Goes to The Beach, The 5 and Dime, New York, NY
1985 Civilization, The 5 & Dime, New York, NY
1985 New York Collaboration - Prints From Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, Galveston Arts Center Gallery, TX
1985 Sculpture at BMCC, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
1985 Umpires of Art, Gallery 53, Cooperstown, NY 1985 New Acquisitions 1980-85, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1985 The House and Garden: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
1984 Mail Art Exhibition, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Call and Response: Art on Central America, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (curated by Lucy Lippard)
1984 Offset: A Survey of Artists Books, Hera Cooperative Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1984 Baubles, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Tit for Tatlin, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1984 Drawings, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1983 Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1983 Construction, North Terminal Connector Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Connections: Bridges/Ladders/Ramps/Staircases/Tunnels, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
1983 New York in Linkoping, Linkoping Museum, Sweden
1983 Terminal New York, The Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, NY
1983 Art for Your Collection, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
1983 Group Show, Gallerie Norballe, Copenhagen, Denmark
1983 Varieties of Sculptural Ideas; Drawings and Maquettes, Max Hutchison Gallery, New York, NY
1983 The Modern American Poster, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1983 Artists Books, Bienal International de Libro de Artista, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1983 Modern Mythology, Fordham University, New York, NY
1982 Muestra International de Arte Grafico, Arteder '82, Bilbao, Spain
1982 Sculpture Exhibition, Ward's Island, New York, NY
1982 Artpark '82, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1981 Drawings, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Drawings, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1981 The Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Environmental Interplay; Seven Sculptors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1981 Artists Books, Zone, Springfield, MA
1981 Paper Caper, Frank Marino Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Sculpture Now, Malmö Konsthall and Galerie Nordenhake, Malmö, Sweden
1980 Cristos Gianakos, Jerry Saltz, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 The Fine Art of Making Books: Artists Books from Duchamp to the Present, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1980 Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
1980 On Paper, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
1980 Selections from the Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College,
Wayne, NJ
1980 CAPS Sculpture Show, Niagra Community College, New York, NY
1980 Sitesights, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1980 Nineteen at Twenty-Six, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY
1979 Drawing, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Let There Be Light, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, NY
1979 Transitions, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, NY
1979 In the Shadow of Duchamp; The Photomechanical Revolution and the Artist's Books, 1968-1978, The Grolier Club, New York, NY
1979 118 Artists, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Renaissance Society Drawing Exhibition, Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, IL
1978 Artists Books USA, organized by Independent Curators International, traveled to SUNY College, Old Westbury, NY;
traveled to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; University of Hartford, Hartford, CT; Dalhouse University
Art Gallery, Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada; University of California, Irvine, CA; Cleveland Center for ContemporaryArt, Cleveland, OH; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1978 Books as an Art Medium, Parsons Exhibition Center, New York, NY
1978 The Message is the Medium: Artworks of Artforum, Special Project Room, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, PS1, Long Island City, NY
1978 Part One, Sculpture Library, Ward's Island, New York, NY
1977 Sculptors Preliminaries, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI
1977 Contemporary Drawing Invitational Show, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY
1977 Collection in Progress, Selections from the Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick, Moore College of Art,
Philadelphia, PA
1977 Sculpture Show, University of Hartford Art School, CT
1977 Xerox/Xerox/Xerox, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1977 Photonotations II, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1977 NOEMATA, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1977 School of Visual Arts: 10 Alumni, Hundred Acres, New York, NY
1977 Outdoor Sculpture, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
1976 Images of an Era: American Posters 1945-75, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,DC
1976 Posters from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1976 Gestures - Painting, Sculpture and Drawings, The Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, NY
1976 Photonotations, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Sculptors’ Drawings, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, organized by Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick
1976 Roome, PS1, Long Island City, NY
1975 Spare, Central Hall Gallery, Great Neck, NY
1975 Collectors of the Seventies - Part III, A Collection in Progress, The Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick, The Clocktower, New York, NY
1974 New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
1973 Drawings by Young Artists, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA
1972 Parker Street 470, Boston, MA
1972 Making Megalopolis Matter, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1971 Drawings, French & Co., New York, NY
1971 The Artist as Adversary, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1971 Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1971 Drawings, Hundred Acres, New York, NY
1971 Cristos Gianakos and Julias Tobias, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1971 First Sculpture Annual, Hundred Acres, New York, NY
1970 Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1970 Young Artists of New York, Greenwich Library, New York, NY
1970 Series Photography, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Annual Exhibition, Salon Society, New York, NY
1970 World Works, various sites, New York, NY
1969 Street Works III, various sites, New York, NY
1969 Group Exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1969 Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969 A Plastic Presence, Jewish Museum, New York, NY; traveled to Milwaukee Art Center, WI; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1969 Plastics in Editions, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1968 Transparent Sculpture, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1968 Plastics Show, American Crafts Museum, New York, NY
1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968 Made of Plastic, Flint Institute of Art, MI
1968 Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1966 The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS AND HONORS
2023 Wikipedia: Cristos Gianakos American Visual Artist
2014 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 Union Internationale des Architectes Prize, Friendly Spaces Accessible to All (awarded for
Prospelasis at the Rotunda, Thessaloniki, Greece)
990 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1980 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Grant
1980 Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Sculpture Grant
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Grant
1976 Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Sculpture Grant