About:

If I had to pick a genre for my painting although difficult, due to the hybrid nature of my work, “magic realism” with a surrealist undertone would be it. Harsh images that capture our banal lives, a world full of data that consciously or subconsciously feeds into my work and helps involve it. All of these sources are filtered through a personal lens, which process and alters all these visual stimuli before they are translated with painting brushes unto the canvas. In other words, the mind rules over the body. Despite this pluralistic approach there is an underlying theme that runs throughout my artistic practice. The female psyche and feminine energy that wants to communicate and reveal its true identity by breaking social constraints and stereotypes is a recurrent theme that sets the foundations for each and every painting of mine. In the end these are nothing more than lifetime experiences that give shape and form to each project that I am undertaking. The painting surface is the meeting point where reality clashes with fantasy and vice-versa.

Selection of Solo Exhibitions

2019 - “Heavenly Creatures” ARTION gallery, Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece 2018 - “A WHOLE OTHER STORY” Art Basel Miami Week, dacconcepts, Miami FL 2015 - “ena” art Gallery, Athens, Greece 2010 - “Age of innocence”, Artzone42, Athens, Greece 2009 -“Soul Portrait”, Yeni Çami museum, Thessaloniki, Greece

Selection of Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs

2019 – 8ᵗʰ Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2018 - “We Love Red” ARTION gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece 2017 - Art Basel Spectrum, dacconcepts, Miami, Florida 2017 - World Art Dubai art fair, The Art Cocoon gallery, Dubai, UAE 2017 - “Diamonds Are Forever” The Collection gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus 2017 - “Tis Popis” My Art Box gallery, curator Manos Stephanides, Athens Greece 2017 - “Mykonos to Athens” Skoufa gallery, Athens Greece 2016 - Old Brompton Gallery in Collaboration with Kapopoulos Fine Arts, London, UK 2015 - “HUMAN RIGTS?” #MEMENTO – DALLA GUERRA ALLA PACE, Rovereto, Trento, Italia 2014 - “Homage to the Greek, Doménikos Theotokópoulos”, Heraklion Museum of Visual Arts, Heraklion, Hania, Rethimno, Athens HUB private museum

Permanent Collections and Museums

Artworks by Sophia Fotiadou are acquired by the following Institutions and Museums:

Vorres Museum, Greece. The American College of Greece. Society for Macedonian Studies of Thessaloniki, Greece. Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece. Municipal Art Gallery of Volos, Greece. Hatzigiannis Foundation of Larisa, Greece. Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece

Private Collections:

Condoleezza Rice, John Bailly, Carolos Papoulias, Alexandros Marathianakis, Kaite Kiriakopoulou