Maria Bacha

Maria Bacha is a Greek-born contemporary artist based between Greece and London whose interdisciplinary practice explores water as a living archive of memory, embodiment and ecological change. Working primarily through painting, sound and site-responsive processes, she approaches water not simply as subject matter, but as material, witness and collaborator.

Her practice has evolved through a sustained investigation of water, moving from painting into material, sonic and site-responsive research. Blue holds a central place within this evolving visual language, through which questions of memory, ecology and transformation emerge.

Bacha holds an MFA in Arts & Humanities from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA in Studio Arts from the University of La Verne, California. Her work has been exhibited in Greece, London and Los Angeles, including The Other Art Fair, and a work entered the collection of the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2020. She has undertaken courses at RISD and MoMA and is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts.

2025 MFA Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London UK
2021 Course in Experimental Painting, Rhodes Island School of Design, USA
2021 Certificate In Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting, MoMA, USA
2000 B.A. in Fine/Studio Arts General, University of La Verne, California, USA

SELECTED:

GROUP:
- RCA Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London (2025)
- Motherhood, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London (2025)
- Pop Up, Crawley Public Space, London (2024)
-The Other Art Fair, London, UK (March 2022)
-The Other Art Fair, LA, USA, First Virtual Edition (Spring 2020)
-E Art Gallery, Paros, Greece (summer 2020)
-“Surprise”, charity exhibition, The Project Gallery, Athens (2019)
-The Other Art Fair, Barker Hangar, Los Angeles, California, USA (2019)
-Talented Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, United Kingdom (2019)
-Thessaloniki International Fair, CheapArt Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece (2017)
-“TheArtboxProject Basel 0.1”, Basel Euroairport, Switzerland (2017)
-“Surprise”, Ennea Gallery, Athens (2015)


SOLO:
- Celestial Views, (curated by Irini Persidou), Tsichritzi Foundation for the Arts, Kifissia, Athens, sponsored by UNESCO (Dec. 2019)
- Hydroexperiences, Galerie Privee Onnik, Marousi Athens (2008)