Bill Balaskas is a London-based artist, theorist, and educator. Originally trained as an economist in Greece, he later studied art in the United Kingdom. Informed by this interdisciplinary background, his practice interrogates socioeconomic and political systems through the lens of contemporary utopias and dystopias. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; BOZAR, Brussels; EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; CA2M, Madrid; Le CENTQUATRE, Paris; Transmediale, Berlin; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; TENT, Rotterdam; Whitstable Biennale; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Almeida Garret Galeria Municipal do Porto; and the British Film Institute, London. His lecture-performances have been presented at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale; Tate Liverpool; the 11th Sharjah Biennial; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Warburg Haus, Hamburg; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others. Balaskas’s writing has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Visual Culture, Third Text, OnCurating, Revista Arta, Times Higher Education, e-flux Architecture, and Espace Art Actuel. His edited books include ‘Fabricating Publics: The Dissemination of Culture in the Post-truth Era’ (Open Humanities Press, 2021) and ‘Institution as Praxis: New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research’ (Sternberg Press, 2020). Balaskas holds a PhD in Critical Writing in Art and Design and an MA in Communication Art and Design from the Royal College of Art. He is Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of Arts, Kingston University, where he founded the Centre for Practice Research in the Arts (CePRA) in 2022. Bill Balaskas is represented by Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki.