Yiota Kotika

Yiota Kotica was born in Athens/Greece
She is a graduate of the Department of Sound and Image in the Digital Age at the Ionian University, she studied Humanities Studies at the Hellenic Open University as well as Visual Arts at Akto College, School of Fine Arts and Design, a validated body of the University of Middlesex (BA Fine Arts & Technology), earning a scholarship.
Her work focuses on the research of the unfamiliar, under which she processes issues of memory, time and identity by presenting works using a variety of expressive mediums.
Her work has featured at solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions of painting, video art and performance. She has also worked in designing and building scenery for theatrical performances.
Her pieces belong to public institutions and private collections in Greece and abroad.

2017- MA Audiovisual Arts
2012-BA Fine Arts & Technology Middlesex University
2008-BA in Humanities Studies "European culture"

Seminars on Visual arts, Byzantine Iconography, Multimedia and Art education

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015/6- Screams - Cafe Poeta, Thessaloniki
2015 - CheapArt 80th TIF Helexpo, Thessaloniki
2015 - Toc-Toc - Theatre HVH, Athens
2014 - CheapArt 20 - Athens
2014 - Le Temps Des Bourgeois - Art10 Gallery, Athens
2014 - 5th Festival for WOMAN - WO(H)MEN - Pure Bliss, Athens
2013 - 2nd Symposium of Greek Gastronomy - Amari Crete
2013 - Transitions Booze Cooperativa, Athens
2013 - Open Doors II - Artspace Gazi, Athens
2013 - Tainted Love, Artspace BooArt, Athens
2013 - Bicycle, Artspace BooArt, Athens
2012 - Installation / Performance, Knot Gallery - GrimmKnot Performance: Grimm (x) 6, Athens
2012 - Painting - Temporary art exhibitions 2012 " Christodoulideio ", Lemnos
2012 - Report BA Fine Arts & Technology College AKTO 2012, Athnes
2010-25 Golden Wishes - GreekFrench association, Athens
2009 - ART 4 ​​ALL, Artspace "Pandou", Athens
2008 - " In memory of youth ..." - Park grows , Myrina Lemnos
2003 – Byzantine Iconography - Pantelideio Building Myrinas Lemnos
1994 – Byzantine Iconography - Metropolis of Lemnos
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 – Anthropo(a)gonia-Video Art - Gallery of Contemporary Art Balkans , Lemnos
2010- Exhibition , Theatre ROES , Gazi, Athens
2009 - Painting Exhibition , Summer 2009 , ...