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Biography

Mark Hadjipateras was born and raised in London.

He studied at St. Martins School of Art in London and the John Moores University in Liverpool.

From 1982 to 2002 he lived and worked in New York City.

His work includes painting, photography, printing and sculpture. He has done numerous site-specific installations in galleries and public spaces, in Europe and the U.S.

In 2000, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of NYC commissioned Hadjipateras to create a permanent installation comprising 40 mosaics for the 28th Street station of the Broadway line.  The station received the Municipal Arts Society Award for Best Public Work in 2003.

Other public spaces with his work are the Thessaloniki New Waterfront, the Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos ‘

The artist has had forty solo exhibitions and participated in more than one hundred forty group exhibitions in the U.S., Greece, England, Germany and Japan including: Queens Museum of Art, Cooper Union, Alternative Museum in New York and at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the Macedonian Contemporary Art Museum, the Benaki Museum, in Greece.

He has had four retrospective exhibitions in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Greek Art (Rhodes) the Municipal Gallery of Athens in 2008,  the Hellenic Foundation of Culture in Berlin in 2011, and the Fougaro Art Gallery, Nafplio, Greece in 2014.

Two monographs about his work have been published , in 2003 and 2008.

Hadjipatera’s work has been reviewed in Art in America,Art News, ,Sculpture Magazine,NY Times,,Newsday,The Sun,Wall Sstreet Journal, Int.,Herald Tribune,Village Voice,NY Observer,,NY  Magazine,Village Voice,Baltimore Sun,London Observer ,and many other art periodicals and newspapers.

His works are in important public and private collections including the Metropolitan Musuem  of Art ,Princeton University Art Museum,Zimmerli Art Museum, EMST (-Greek Museum,of Contemporary  Art)  the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, , Zimmerli Art Museum, Athens Municipality, Basil & Elize Goulandris Museum Dakis Joannou collection, Vorres Museum,The Royal Bank of Scotland, Daewood Sculpture Garden, Geoje, South Korea, Ernst & Young Athens, IDS/American Express, Prudential Insurance Corporation, New York and many others.