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VASILIOS PAPAPITSIOS
1991 Born in Charlotte, North Carolina
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
2015 Adobe After Effects & Digital Embroidery, Continued Education, SVA
2014 Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Concentration: Media Production
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Concentration: Visual & Cultural Studies, UNC - Chapel Hill
Exhibitions
2021
— THE IMPOSSIBILITY TO MAKE A THING REMAIN STILL, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
— My Health Agenda Ep. 4, LATV Proud, Los Angeles, CA
— Emerging Artist: Vasilios Papapitsios, Made In Bed, Soethby’s Institute of Art, London, UK
2020
— Kara Agora: Net Works – Pitch for a Social Network Sphere, AR Experimental Video, Vienna, Austria
— More Cunt, Less Poz: Undetectable & Unfuckwithable, AIDS 2020, Los Angeles, CA
— AN ARMY OF THE SICK CAN’T BE DEFEATED: REFLECTIONS ON CARE WORK IN PERPETUAL SICK TIMES, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
— Threading Global Movements, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
— Viral: A Contagious Kiss, A Transmittable Video, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
2019
— Through Positive Eyes, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
— Poz 4 Pleasure Portal, Installation, Ostbahnhof, Los Angeles, CA
2018
— MIX NYC 30th Queer Experimental Festival, Brooklyn, NY
— POS·I·TIV·I·TY, Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA
— LA Queer Bienniel III, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
— Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism, ONE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
— Viral Illumination 001, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
— HIV/irl Zine, Le Petit Versailles/Allied Productions Inc., Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
— Curious L.A.- Party With A Purpose, The Mid-City Arthouse, Los Angeles, CA
— Pink Noise, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
— #RESIST Gallery, ArtShare-LA/ Outfest Presents, Los Angeles, CA
— M a r i c o t e c a, estudio teorema, Guadalajara, Mexico
— PROUD, Studio Door, San Diego, CA
— Touch Me Cut Me Feel Me, S+S Project, Honey’s Brooklyn, New York, NY
— Women on the Verge of Agency: The Muse, ArtSpace Mexico, CDMX, Mexico
2016
— QUEER, ILL, + OKAY, Oracle Theatre, Chicago, IL
— Danspace Project’s Platform 2016: Lost and Found, Arts on Site, New York, NY 2015
— Y’all Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration, National Queer Arts Festival, LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA
2014
— Coming In, Hanes Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC
— UNstraight Art, Durham Arts Place, Durham, NC
Press
2021
— Grobar, Matt. “Outfest Set Fellows for 2021 Screenwriting Lab” Deadline
— Guerrero, Desirée. “Let’s Talk About Sex: A New Latinx Web Series Gets Real About Health” HIV Plus Mag
— Andrade, Amanda. “Emerging Artists: Vasilios Papapitsios” Madeinbed
2019
— Hay, Mark. “I’m HIV-Positive. My Partner Is Negative. This Is How We Have Sex” VICE Magazine
— Easter, Makeda. “The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope” Los Angeles Times
— Harrity, Christopher. “33 Works From HIV-Positive California Artists” ADVOCATE
2018
— Finster, Tierney. “I Have HIV. My Partner Doesn’t” MEL Magazine
2017
— INTO Editors. “Meet The Creators of ‘Viral Illumination’ –And Then Come Party With Us” INTO
— INTO Editors. “Here’s How To Buy Some Art and Support The Decriminalization of HIV+ Folks” INTO
— St. James, James. “ To Do, Wednesday: Ongina Hosts Viral Illumination 001” The WOW Report
— VA staff. “Allied Productions Presents AIDS OS Y Version 10.11.6” Visual AIDS
2016
— Varisco, Joseph. “Queer, Ill, & Okay: Artists write to their former selves on World AIDS Day” OUT Magazine
2015
— Danziger, Josie. “Inside the Glamorous, Judgement-Free World of Love Bailey and her Savages” Bullett Media
— James Michael Nichols. “‘Psychic’ Coming-Of-Consciousness Party Curators Sit Down With Huffpost Gay Voices” Huffington Post
2014
— Hjerpe, Katie. “UNC students criticize racial history of building names” The Daily Tar Heel
Grants and Awards
2023 — Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS, New York, NY
2021 — Outfest 2021 Screenwriting Lab Notable Writer, Los Angeles, CA
2017 — Juror’s Award, PROUD Exhibition, San Diego, CA
Curatorial Projects
2022 — Raise Hell For Uhuru, Performance & Fundraiser, Navel LA, Los Angeles, CA
2021 — FACE/2FACE, Performance & Fundraiser, Navel LA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 — More Cunt, Less Poz: Undetectable & Unfuckwithable, AIDS 2020 International AIDS Conference, Los Angeles, CA
— KinShip, Digital Performance Space & Fundraiser
2017 — Viral Illumination 001, featuring Xena Ellison, Ben Cuevas, Leo Herrera, Domonique Echeverria, Saturn Rising, Nicholas Burton, Daniel Opdahl, John Moletress, Navel LA, Los Angeles, CA
Publications
2019 — Men We Love, MEL
2017 — estuaries #1: reconciling the queer south
— Hand Job: Femme Armor, Issue 3
2016 — AIDS OS Y 10.11.6, Danspace Project’s Platform 2016: Lost and Found
2015 — I Don’t Do Boxes, Issue 3
2014 — I Don’t Do Boxes, Issue 2