Born 1926 in Agios Nikolaos, Greece
Passed away 2013 in New York, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2021
STEPHEN ANTONAKOS: FORM COLOR SPACE, French Alliance: Alliance Française, NYC
Stephen Antonakos: Marking Time, Gallery Cirtronne, Athens, Greece
2020
Light, Stephen Antanakos and the russian Avant-gard , MOMus Museum Alex Mylona, Athens
2019
Stephen Antonakos: Late Night, Gold Works 2010-2013, Loretta Howards Gallery, NYC
Stephen Antonakos: The Room Chapel (1996) & Model for “The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder” (1995), Allentown Art Museum, PA, USA
2018
The Room Chapel, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, USA
2016
Stephen Antonakos – Neons & Drawings, 1970s, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, USA
2015-2016
Stephen Antonakos: Prints, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2015
Stephen Antonakos: 1977-78, Cuts and a Wall, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
2014
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hoffmann’s Legacy Today, Bookstein Projects, New York, USA
2013
Four Directions, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Pillows 1962—63, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
2 Neons and 12 Drawings, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
2012
Tesseras, Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
2011
The Search, The Elaiourgeio, Elefsina, Greece
Spaces, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
2010
Ruby and Yellow Neon, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
Whites, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
2009
Taxidi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
1960—2008, Kalfayan Galleries (Athens-Thessaloniki) at The Armory Show, New York, USA
2008
Darkness and Light, Savannah College of Art and Design, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA and ACA Gallery of SCAD, Atlanta, GA, USA
Here and Beyond, David Krut Projects and Kim Kempner Fine Art, New York, USA
New Wall Works, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece
Stephen Antonakos and Ronald Bladen: Drawings of the 60s and 70s, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2007
A Retrospective, Benaki Museum Pireos Avenue, Athens Greece, traveled to the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, USA
Recurrence, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece, permanent public work Antonakos, Gallery Citronne, Poros, Greece
2006
Stephen Antonakos, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
Light, Location, Color, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, USA
2005
Five Decades of Drawing, Graduate Center Gallery, CUNY, New York, USA
The Years of Defiance / Art of the 1970s in Greece, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2004
Remembrance, Chapel of St. George, Mystras, Greece
To Spiti / The House, Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros, Greece
3 Spaces / 4 Directions. Williams Visual Arts Center, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
Silent Chapel, Onassis Cultural Center, New York, USA
2003
Journey, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonica, Greece
2001
‘Saint Anthony’: An Installation for the Easter Season, Corpus Christie Church, New York, USA
2000
Public Works 1973—2000 and Antonakos: Praise—State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonica, Greece
Time Boxes 2000, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Proscenium, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York, USA
1999
‘Welcome’ and ‘Chapel for P.S. 1’, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
Blue Cross Meditation Chapel, The Arts Center, Portsmouth, VA, USA
Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder and Other Works, St. Peter’s Church, New York, USA
Greek Travel Collages, Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York, USA
Color and Light, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, USA
1998
Plastivellum Drawings, Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Early Assemblages and ‘The Blue Box’, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, USA
Antonakos: Selected Drawings, Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York, USA
1997
Inner Light, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA
Meditation Room, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA
Praise, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
1996
The Room, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, USA
1995
Drawings, Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, USA
1994
Antonakos and Takis, European Union Hall, Zapeion, Athens
1993
Chapel of the Saints—Fortress of St. George, Rhodes, Greece and The New Fort, Corfu—Curated by Haris Kambourides—catalog
1992
‘Chi-Rho’ Angels and Saints’ and ‘Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder’, Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens and 1993 and Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
Neons for the Carpenter Center, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
1990
Neons and Drawings, Blancpain Stepczynski Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1989
New Work, Kouros Gallery, New York, USA
Neon and Drawings, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
Neons and Drawings, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, USA
1988
Neons and Collages, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Drawings, Bali Miller Art Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Neons and Drawings, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Neons, Drawings, and Prints, G. H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
1986
Neons and Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA
1985
Neons, Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa, USA
1984
Neons and Works on Paper, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA
Sandpiper Gallery, Tacoma, WA, USA
1983
Neons for Nevers, Maison de Culture de Nevers, Nevers, France
Three Neons, Le Coin de Mirroir, Dijon, France
New Work 1983, Bonnier Gallery, New York, USA
Neons, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions
2020
A Space full of Drawings and a Drawing in Space, Galerie Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
2018
Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
Unlocking the Grid, Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, USA
Five and Forward: The Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum’s, Water Mill, New York, USA
2017
Group show, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, USA
Five and Forward: The Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, USA
Iterations: Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, USA
documenta 14, Kassel, Athens, Greece
2016
Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp, EMST, Athens and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2015
The Permanent Collection: Connections and Context, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, USA
40: The Anniversary Exhibition, Hal Bromm, New York, USA
2014
Beyond the Classical, Imagining the Ideal Across Time, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
2013
The Mediterranean Experience: The Mediterranean as a spatial paradigm for the circulation of ideas and meaning, MMCA – Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Minus Space, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, USA
(mostly) white, Bookstein Projects, New York, USA
Heavy Metal, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
From Page to Space, Kunstraum Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
Correspondences, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2012
From Page to Space, Galerija Murska Sobota, Slovenia
Transitions: Drawings from the Collection of Mima, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry, UK
Neon, la material luminosa dell’arte, MACRO Museo d’arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy
The Collecting Impulse: Fifty Works from Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Blanton Museum, Austin, TX, USA
White: The Anatomy of a Color, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
From Picasso to Koons: Artists’ Jewellery, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Néon – Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Gold, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
2011
See the Light, Espace Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong, China
Channa Horwitz, Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos: Works on Paper, Cream Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Polyglossia: Greek Artists of the Diaspora, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katona Museum of Art, Westchester County, New York, USA
Drawing in Progress, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
The Novak / O’Doherty Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2009
In and Out of Amsterdam: art & project, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, USA
Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy and Museum, New York, USA
Abstract Alternatives, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
With Red or With White The Wine Bottles of a Particular Collection, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
2008
Exhibition Transexperiences From National Museum of Contemporary Art Of Athens, 798 Space, Bejing, China
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA
Sensory Overload: Light Motion, Sound, and the Ooptical in Art Since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2007
Based on Paper: Revolution der Kunst 1960—75, Collection Marzona, Kulturforum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Topoi—From the collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Benaki Museum Pireos Avenue, Athens, Greece
Ithaca Regained: Greek Artists in New York, Kouros Gallery, New York, USA
The Abstract Impulse: Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy 1956—2006, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, USA
2006
New Perspectives / New Visions: Collecting the New, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA America /
Americas, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
The Garden on Paper, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, USA
Disegni, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Anatomy of a Dream, Kalfayan Galleries, Salonika, Greece
Memory, Hellenic Academy of Modern Art, Athens, Greece
Guild Hall Collects, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, USA
Italia: Muse to American Artists 1930–2005, National Academy and Museum, New York, USA
Works by Peloponnesian Artists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
The Alpha Bank Collection: Greek Artists from 1920 to Today, Macedonia Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
Drawings, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York, USA
Drawings, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece
2005
The Years of Defiance / Art of the 1970s in Greece, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Drawings, Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
The Marzona Collection, Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Columns and Pillars, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi, Greece
Light Waves, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece
2004
Arti & Architettura 1900–2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Infinite Possibilities / Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
Periplo del Mediterraneo…Antonakos, Burri, Klein, Tapies, Museo dell’Academia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy
7 + 7 – / From the Colletion of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
The 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition, National Academy and Museum, New York, USA
Five Artists / Five Faiths, Ackland Art Museum, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Bibliography
2018
Stephen Antonakos: Neon Rooms, design and production by Thomas Whitridge, Ink, Inc. NY, 24 pages, full color
Neons for the Stadtsparkasse, The Brooklyn Rail, April Issue
2014
All the Rulers in the Starry Sky, Dimitri Oulis, The Athens Review, September Issue
2013
Musica Ex Nihilo, Savvas Michael, Agra Publishers, Athens, Greece (in Greek) – book
Stephen Antonakos: Kumi Ori – Shine… or The Dream of the Real, Savvas Michael, Ta Nea Tys Technis, Athens, Jan/Feb Issue
Stephen Antonakos: The Search, Photographs by Panos Kokkinias, Text by Christophoros Marinos, Design and Art in Greece, Annual Review, Athens
Flavin’s Icon Works, Joseph Masheck, Art and Christianity 76, Winter Issue
Stephen Antonakos, 86, Sculptor of Neon dies at 86, Margalit Fox, The New York Times, September 6
Stephen Antonakos (1926-2013), Diane Kelder, Artforum, October Issue
Transcendent and Aspirational: Stephen Antonakos 1926 – 2013, Marshall Price, Artcritical, September 6
Stephen Antonakos 1926 – 2013, Brian Boucher, Art in America, August Issue
2011
In Memory of Konstantinos, George T. Calofonos, Kathemerini, Athens, February 20, Arts&Letters Section, pg. 15
Stephen Antonakos: The Search. The Elaiourgeio, Elefsina, Greece, Essays by Helen C. Evans, George Skianis, Christophoros Marinos and others (in English and Greek), 64 color pages.
Stephen Antonakos: International Treasure. Article and interview by Margarita Pournara, Greek America Magazine, Jan/Feb Issue
Antonakos Gold Works 2011, Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin, Interview with Irving Sandler – Catalogue
Stephen Antonakos – Klimas Photos, Savvas Michael, Golem, Agra Publishers, Athens, Greece (in Greek) – book
2009
Antonakos: Magician of Neon, Efi Strousa, Ta Nea Publishers, Athens, Greece (in Greek) – book
2008
Kernan, Nathan. Antonakos: 151 images and an essay. Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. New York: Jim Kempner Fine Art, 158 color pages
The Ladder of Light or Stephen Antonakos Opens a Door in the Ceiling, Savvas Michael, Ta Nea Tys Technis, Athens, Greece, February
Artistic Proof That Less is More, Alexandra Koroxenidis, Kathemerini, Athens, Greece, February 20
In Conversation: Stephen Antonakos with Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, January
2007
Stephen Antonakos: A Retrospective. Organized by the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, the Benaki Museum, ATHENS. Curated by Katerina Koskina, Essays by Katerina Koskina, Brian O’Doherty, Martin Filler, Daniel Marzona, and Eleftherios Ikonomou, 250 color pages. This catalog contains a Chronology; Bibliography; and Exhibition, Public Works, and Public Collections documentation through 2007.
2005
Stephen Antonakos: Five Decades of Drawing. The Gallery of the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York. Essay by Diane Kelder.
2004
Marzona, Daniel and Grosenick, Uta. Minimal Art. Cologne, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo: Taschen
Stephen Antonakos: Remembrance. Chapel of Saint George. Archaeological Site of Mystras, Greece, Essay by Andreas Ioannidis.
Antonakos: To Spiti / The House. Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros, Greece. Essay by Athena Schina (in English and Greek), 70 color pages
2003
Stephen Antonakos: Journey. A Drawing of 72 Units. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece. Essays by Maria Kotzamani and Irving Sandler (in English and Greek). 85 color pages
2000
Antonakos: Public Works 1973 — 2000. State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece. Curated by Miltiades Papanikolaou, Essay by Martin Filler. Statements by the artist. 86 color pages
Stephen Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Essay by Joseph D. Ketner
1999
Sandler, Irving. Antonakos. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 258 color pages
1997
Stephen Antonakos: Inner Light. Smith College Museum of Art, Northamton, MA. Essays by Helen Searing, Vera Shevzov, and Linda Muehlig.
1992
Antonakos. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece. Essays by Thomas F. Mathews and Linda Norden.
1986
Stephen Antonakos: Neons and Drawings. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Introduction by Carl Belz. Statement by the artist.