Edouard Sacaillan (b. Thessaloniki, 1957) lives and works in Athens and Paris. He studied at the Athens School of Fine arts (1976-81, studios of Dimitris Mytaras and Yiannis Moralis) and at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1984-87, studio of Leonardo Cremonini). Awards: Painting Award at the 18th Biennale of Alexandra (1994), the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Award for Painting (Paris, 1992) and the Prix de l’ Académie de Médecine de France (1987). Selected solo exhibitions include: Affordable Art Fair (Galerie Mιnksy), New York (2011); “Edouard Sacaillan: The Artist’s Eye”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2009); “Spectators”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki (2008); Vienna Art Fair (Kalfayan Galleries, 2008); “Utopias of Paradise”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2007); “Landscapes and People”, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens (2006); “Dialogues 2005”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki; “Spaces with People”, Foundation of Thracian Art & Tradition in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries (2005) and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki (2005); Galerie Lefor Openo, Paris (2002). Selected group shows include: “Gold”, (guest curator: Thomas Zaunschirm), Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna (2012); “White & Black”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2011), “The Naked Truth”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2010); “The Perspective of Time – Pictorial Histories: Paintings from the Sotiris Felios Collection”, Benaki Museum, Piraeus Annex, Athens (2009); “35 Contemporary Greek Artists on Democracy”, Zappeion Exhibition Hall, Athens (2009); “Art Contemporain d’ Arménie”, Orangerie du Luxembourg, Musée d’ Art Moderne d’ Arménie , Paris (2007); “Visual Arts in Greece II, Artistic Innovation. Semiotics of its Conditions in the New Era”, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2007) and “Voyageur sans boussole: Sur les traces de Dubuffet”, Museum of Modern Art, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris (2002).