Lives and works:   Volos, Greece

 

 

Sofia Fotiadou has a background in economics and pedagogical sector, though this didn't stop her from pursuing her passion for art. With several solo and group exhibitions, in her home country and abroad, Sofia’s work got international recognition and notable critics by art historians and art critics, such as Mr Dimitris Delligiannis - Art History Professor at the University of Thessalia, Ms Faye Tzanetoulakou - Art Historian, Ms Chryssa Drandaki - Sociologist of Art and Ms Athina Shina - Art Historian and Professor at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Sofia's art practise is influenced by great artists, such as Domenicos Theotokopoulos, Georgia O'Keeffe, Salvador Dali, Franz Gertsch, and Van Gogh, where their art motivated and inspired her in defining her own distinctive visual language.

 

Her favourite medium is oil paint on canvas, where she creates large to medium size paintings. Her subjects vary in content but always consistent in their visual language. Sofia’s art is of figurative painting with a dose of surrealism depicting animals, flowers. skulls, and female human figures, as her subjects. Sofia’s oil paintings are realistic in their approach, bringing attention to detail and vivid colours.

 

Medium: Oil Paint on Canvas

 

 

Paintings of Sofia Fotiadou are acquired in numerous private and public collections internationally.

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

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The American College of Greece,

Hatzigiannis Foundation of Larisa, Greece

Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece

Municipal Art Gallery of Volos, Greece

Society for Macedonian Studies of Thessaloniki, Greece

Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece

Vorres Museum, Greece

 

Private Collections;

 

Condoleezza  Rice George Tsakopoulos

John Bailly Gregory Arhondakis

Carolos Papoulias Georgia Lamprakis

Alexandros Marathianakis

Kaite Kiriakopoulou 

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2016     Old Brompton Gallery in Collaboration with Kapopoulos Fine Arts, London, UK

2015     Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

2015      Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Nicocia, Cyprus

2015      'HUMAN RIGHTS?' #MEMENTO – DALLA GUERRA ALLA PACE, Rovereto, Trento, Italia

2014      “ena”art  Gallery, Athens, Greece

2014      Private view ,artAZ ,Athens, Greece

2014      «History-Irony», Manos Stephanides, 40 years of art, Vorres Museum, Greece

2014      'HUMAN RIGHTS?'#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

2014      «K. P. Kavafis Days of 2013», Gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece  

2013      «Greece of our Soul», Art info today, Athens, Greece

2013       "Days of 2013, Kavafis", Kaplanon 5 Gallery, Athens, Greece

2012      7th Private collections, Modern Visual Meeting  «F.A.C.E.» Porto Carras, Khalkidiki, Greece

2011      «Children & Teenagers – voices & whispers», Melina Mercuri Museum and Cultural Centre, Athens Greece

2011      «Crisis; What Crisis!!!», Kastela Art Center, Piraeus, Greece

2011      Gallery “Theorema”, Brussels

2011      «With a penny in art», Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, Greece

2011     “Art on the Frontpage”, Athens Voice, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2011     “The Drachma in Art”, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, Greece

2010     “...once upon a time”, Eikastikes Anazitiseis, Athens, Greece

2010     “Summer Ascention”, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, Greece

2010      «Art-Athina», Contemporary Art Fair, Faliron Delta, Athens, Greece

2010      «Surprise», Gazi, Athens, Greece

2009     “Small is Smart”, Artower Gallery, Athens, Greece

2009     “Exodus Η”, Kurzum Tzami, Trikala, Greece

2009     «Optima», Art Zone 42, Athens, Greece

2009     «The Open Mind of Lefcadio Hearn», American College, Athens, Greece

2009     «Voyage», BWA Gallerya, Municipal Gallery Rzeszow, Poland

2008     International Art Cultural Forum, ArTower Gallery, Athens, Greece

2008     De Natura, ArTower Gallery, Athens, Greece

2008     Ichnos II, Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, Volos, Greece

2008     Erotica XXX, Spilioti Projects, Athens, Greece

2007      b'n'alle, Spilioti Projects, Athens, Greece

2007      De Natura - East & West, ArTower Gallery, Athens, Greece

2007      Erotica Part II, Spilioti Projects, Athens, Greece

2006      The Age of Innocence, Spilioti Projects, Athens, Greece

2006      The Pleasure of Art, Municipal Theatre, Lamia, Greece

2005      Smart Art, Municipal Gallery, Lamia, Greece

2005      Spire, Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre of Athens, Greece

2001      Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, Volos, Greece