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Neo Serafimidis

Once a Green World

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Artist Statement/ Bio

Neo Serafimidis is a fine art photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a
member of Bay Area Photographers Collective. His work has been shown in galleries in the Bay
Area and elsewhere in the United States. Photographs from his series "The Sheltering Night"
were included in "de Young Open," a large group salon exhibition at San Francisco's deYoung
Museum.

Neo studied art theory with American artist Charles Gaines, and the philosophy of art in the
philosophy department at CSU Fresno, earning a B.A. in philosophy. During this time his
primary work was electronic/experimental music and performance art. He founded the
performance group "Synesthesia Works", which produced a number of recordings, theater
scores, performances and installations. These works often included photographic projections in
theater and installation works. Neo attended graduate school at the University of Washington in
Seattle, where he received a PhD in philosophy. In the mid-2000’s he returned to photography
in earnest.