Canuto Kallan was born in 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Before studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts, He graduated in 1989 from the Technical College of Copenhagen as a cabinet-maker and was awarded the Silver Medal for Woodworking
by the Queen of Denmark. At the same time he was studying at the Technical University of Denmark, from where he graduated in 1990 as a Mechanical Engineer with Master of Science in Engineering. With a scholarship from the Istituto Italiano and the Knud Hoejgaard foundation he attended classes in restoration of wood at the Istituto per l'Arte e il Restauro, Firenze.
In 2003 he graduated with distinction from the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he studied painting under the professor Mr. Yiannis Psychopedis and the Asosciate Professor Mr. Marios Spiliopoulos.
He is a member of the Chamber of fine Arts of Greece ( www.eete.gr ).
Since 1993 he lives and works in Athens.
Solo exhibitions
2011.......... "Greener On the Other Side", Gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece
2009.........."Rhapsodies", The 18th Nafplion Festival and the Danish Embassy,
Vouleftiko (the First Greek Parliament), Nafplion, Greece
2005..........Art gallery "To Milo", Athens
2002..........The Art Society of the Royal Library, Black Diamond, Copenhagen
Group exhibitions
2011.......... "Artistic Views", Municipal Library of Metamorfosi, Athens, Greece
2011.........."Drawing Connections", Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2011..........International Biennial Festival of Portrait, Drawings and Graphics 2011
..................( XIV INTERBIFEP ), Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2011.........."The Garden With the Delusions", Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2011.........."Dialogues With Engraving and Printmaking", Gallery Gaia,
.................. Piraieus, Greece
2010.........."Wall for Peace-AFPIAAP", 20th Istanbul Art Fair/ARTIST,
.................. T�nd Congress Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
2010.........."Wall For Peace", International Week of Peace,
..................Sanski / Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
2010..........Graphic Review-First Szeklers Graphics Biennale, the Silo,
..................Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania
2010.........."2010 International Fine Art", Graham's Fine Art Auctions and FIFA,
..................Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa, Augustiana,
..................Augustenborg, Denmark and Galerie in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2010..........International Art Symposium, Hotel Knossos Beach, Crete, Greece.
2010..........Gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece
2010..........First Szeklers Graphics Biennale, Gyarfas Jeno Gallery, Sfantu Gheorghe,
..................Romania
2010.........."Intaglio Into Focus", The Fine Arts Foundation of Tsichritzi, Kifisia, Greece.
2010.........."Greeks Printing", Gallery Ersi, Athens, Greece
2009.........."The Human Figure In Art", the Greek Chamber of fine Arts,
.................. Technopolis of the City of Athens, Greece
2009.........."Cinephile - 14 Young Artists Go To the Cinema",
..................Michalis Cacoyiannis Foundation, Athens, Greece
2009.........."Art for More", Arthouse, Athens, Greece
..................rewarded for the best painting
2009.........."Printmaking at the House of Cyprus", House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
2009.........."Printmaking", the Greek Chamber of fine Arts and the Museum of
.................. Modern Arts of Thessaloniki, curator Kleoniki Christoforidou,
.................. the Municipal Gallery of Ano Toumpa, Thessaloniki, Greece
2009.........."12 young visual artist" III, Municipal Cultural Centre of Athens
.................."MELINA", curator Lida Kazantzaki, Athens, Greece
2008..........Greek Graphic, Municipal Cultural Center of Athens, Greece
2008..........2nd International Trienale Ex Libris , Lefkas, Greece
2008..........This time let us not forget..,The Municipal Cultural Center of Elassona
2007..........Nuit Blanche in Toronto, the Greek consulate, Toronto
2007..........The international exhibition of Canada, the Greek consulate, Toronto
2007..........Attiko Metrostation Syntagma, the artmagasin Ta nea tis Technis and the Greek
..................Ministery of Public Works, Athens
2006..........4th Biennale Creta Maris, the artmagasin Ta Nea tis Technis in cooperation
..................with the Hotel Creta Maris, Crete
2005..........Grafics, Gallery 'Eirmos", Thessaloniki
2004..........Small is smART, Gallery Artower, Athens
2004..........Graduates, "The Factory", Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
2003..........Cultural Center "Diavasi", Athens
2003..........Southeastem Europe-North 'Aller-retur", Gallery Krebsen, Copenhagen
2001/02......Livres d'artistes, Gallery 7, Athens
2000..........1th Biennale Creta Maris, the artmagasin Ta Nea tis Technis in cooperation
..................with the Hotel Creta Maris, Crete
The artist's works can be found in private collections, in the collection of the under construction Municipal Museum of Art in Komotini, Greece as well as at the Greek headoffice of Burmeister & Wain - MAN, Piraeus and of Postscriptum, Athens.
In the month of July 2008, Canuto Kallan was presented as the 'artist of the month' in the Greek newspaper I AVGI .
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