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.

www.pelagiakyriazi.com

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