Panos Tsagaris (b.1979, Athens, Greece) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. He earned a BFA in 2004 from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver, Canada.
Tsagaris’ practice has always been informed by his interest in the spiritual and the mystical.With key philosophical first edition texts as his guideline, he explores through his work spiritual notions of transformation as those appear in different esoteric traditions and mythologies. Central in his practice is the self-transformative process and how it materializes in contemporary life, and in today's global socio-political matrix, on an individual as well as on a collective level. Through his work Tsagaris aspires to capture the fragile connection between the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the unconscious and the material with the immaterial, to offer visual insights in the value and everlasting presence of change and impermanence.
Recent solo shows include "The Seed", at Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2022); "Forever Now", at the Teloglion Foundation, Thessaloniki (2020); "Let the Sun Protest", at Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Rome (2017); “TIME”, at Kalfayan Gallery, Athens (2016); "Studies in Symbology", at 68 Projects, Berlin (2016), "APOCATASTASIS", at Stems Gallery, Brussels (2016).
Recent group shows include “An Alphabet in the Dark”, at Centre d’Art Maristany, Barcelona (2022); “GILDED”, at Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin (2022); “Invisible Thread”, at the Baker Museum, Naples, FL (2022); "And Now the Good News", at PERA Museum, Istanbul (2022); “Mr Robinson Crusoe stayed home” at the Benaki Museum, Athens (2021); "In search of lost time", Dreamsong gallery, Minneapolis (2021); “Pineal Eye Infection”, at Seasons, Los Angeles (2020); "Theorimata II", at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2020); “Truthiness and the News", at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln (2019); “What is an Edition Anyway”, at the McEvoy Foundation of the Arts, San Francisco (2019); "Shine on Me", at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (2018); "The Times", at the Flag Art Foundation, New York (2017); "Homeland", at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück (2017); “Looking for the Clouds”, at the Casino-Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017); “And Now the Good News, Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection” at the MASI Museum, Lugano (2016); “Unstable Fields” at Benaki Museum, Athens (2016); "Language of the Birds: Occult and Art" at New York University's 80WSE Gallery, New York (2016).
He has participated in the 1st Yerevan Biennial (2020), in the 4th Canakkale Biennial (2014), as well as in the 2nd and 4th Thessaloniki Biennials of Contemporary Art (2009, 2013).