Unlikely Friends, 2025
Emi Avora is a Greek born, UK trained (Oxford University and Royal Academy Schools) and Singapore based artist. Her work spans painting, drawing, and digital media, exploring the boundaries between interior space, memory, and the fantastical.
She has recently held solo exhibitions at Olive and Jean, Singapore; Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore; and Appetite, Singapore. Avora’s practice has been featured in major institutional projects at the National Theatre of Greece, Athens; Studio Voltaire, London; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; the Theocharakis Foundation, Athens; and the National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore. Her work has also appeared in recent group exhibitions at JW Projects and Intersections Gallery, Singapore; Cohle Gallery, Paris; a66 Gallery, Mallorca; Yudian Gallery, Hangzhou; and the Beep Painting Biennial, Wales. Avora’s works are held in significant collections including The Wonderful Fund; the Marsh Collection; and the Central Bank of Greece. She is the winner of the Women in Art Prize Overseas and a past recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.