Biography

Pelagia Kyriazi was born in Athens, Greece. She received her MFA in painting and ceramics at the Athens School of Fine Arts. On a Fulbright grant, she went to New York in 1993 to continue her research on painting techniques. Immersed in the artistic environment of the city, she engaged in painting, drawing, digital art, and experimental printmaking. Her experimental works, twice selected in competitions by the New York-based International Print Center, utilized the industrial material of sandpaper. She also studied digital photography with Peter Campus at NYU.

Her active interest in digital means soon led to a series of works inspired by stories from her origin, combining digital photography with animation video, music, and poetry: Dormant (1997), Final Domicile (1999), and Tyranny of Light (2002), the latter featuring a poem by Cavafy, which she presented in solo exhibitions in Athens and New York.

Member of: Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023: War Museum, Athens

2017: Ekfrasi – Yanna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens

2013: National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens

2009: National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens

2007: Tenri Cultural Institute, New York

2005: New York Public Library 96th St., Hellenic Festival, New York

2005: The American College of Greece, Athens

2005: Galerie 3, Athens

2003: Galerie 3, Athens

1999: Athens Gallery, Athens

1995: A.S. Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies NYU, New York

1989: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024: Kourd Gallery, Athens

2020: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens

2019: Fulbright i-D Projectart, Athens

2019: Theocharakis Foundation, Athens

2019: Frissiras Museum, Athens

2018: Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Athens

2018: IESA Arts and Culture, Paris, France

2017: Athens University History Museum, Athens

2017: ART ATHINA Contemporary Fair, Athens

2016: Orange Water 2, Santorini Arts Factory

2015: Frissiras Museum, Athens

2015: Bath House of the Winds, Greek Folk Art Museum

2015: Fokianou 24/7, Athens

2014: Frissiras Museum, Athens

2012: Frissiras Museum, Athens

2011: Center for Book Arts, New York

2009: International Print Center New York, New York

2007: International Print Center New York, New York

2007: ART ATHINA Contemporary Fair, Athens

2003: ART ATHINA Contemporary Fair, Athens

1998: ART ATHINA Contemporary Fair, Athens

2006: State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2006: Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki

2003: Tenri Cultural Institute, New York

2001: Municipal Museum of Arts, Györ, Hungary

1998: Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens

1995: Kouros Gallery, New York

1991: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

ARTIST’S BOOKS

2014: Waiting, (5×5 in.) – An artist’s book created in the context of the lifelong learning programme on Digital Culture for artists-graduates of the Athens School of Fine Arts, in cooperation with four Universities, and presented at exhibitions in four Greek cities.

2009: VIA – Limited, independent handmade letterpress edition of 80 signed copies including one silkscreen and combining the characteristics of a folio and a book, with a cover that references the texture of sandpaper.

ART VIDEOS

2001-2003: Tyranny of Light – A digital video animation (9 min.) based on a drawing of the artist. Poetry by C.P. Cavafy, Music by K. Stockhausen.

LECTURES – ARTIST’S TALK

2005: Tyranny of Light, New York Public Library 96th St, New York

2005: Psychographs, The American College of Greece, Athens

2003: Tyranny of Light, School of Fine Arts, Athens

2017: In the Artist Studio, University of Athens History Museum, Athens

2018: The Real I Myself, an Image, an Eidolon, IANOS Bookstore, Athens

SEMINARS & CONFERENCES

2017: National Kapodistrian University of Athens History Museum Conference on the occasion of exhibition, Athens

2014: Athens School of Fine Arts, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication

2014: Digicult Seminar for professional artists, Athens

2014: Society for the Study of Human Sciences and TOPIKA, Conference under the auspices of the National Kapodistrian University, Tinos island, Greece

2000: Fulbright Foundation, 1st International Conference of the Fulbright Scholars Association, Delphi, Greece

AWARD

1993: Fulbright grant for Impasto painting, Vassilis Lambrinos studio, New York