Sophia Hadjipapa

Sophia Hadjipapa-Gee, is an artist and academic, living in Cyprus. Sophia is Associate Professor at the European University Cyprus and a board member of the Research laboratory “Cultural Studies and Contemporary Arts”. She is also one of the founding members of the International Motion Festival and has been serving at its board from various positions. Besides painting she has worked on video art, interventions in Public spaces, participatory projects, illustrations of poems, covers of books and has been involved in Public art. Her works have been presented in numerous international festivals and exhibitions. She has served in various professional bodies including sitting on the committees for the Selection of Works and Artists for Biennales and serving as academic expert on the committee for composing the New National Curricula in Art, of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.

She holds a BA in Painting from the National Academy of Arts of Sofia, where she also completed an MA degree, in Painting and a PhD in Art History and Theory.

Since 1999 she has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad, among which, Art and Aqua Symposium, Mallnitz Austria, 7/9/18-14/9/2018, Terra Culta, Samokov Municipal Gallery, Samokov, Bulgaria, 3/9/2018-3/10/2018, Plant(e)scape, Akamas Peninsula, CY, 30/6/2018-8/7/2018, Here and Now, Samokov Dospevski Museum House, Samokov, Bulgaria, 2017, {re}mapping the city | Nicosia Reloaded, 17/7/2017, Municipal Market / Old Town Hall Square, Nicosia, Cyprus, Sofia Paper Art Fest 2017, 11/5/2017-30/5/2017, Finesse Gallery & Amateras Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria, Treasure Island, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Nicosia,26/9/2014-8/11/2014, Art in Odd Places: The Artifacts—selected ephemera, 13/9/2014–28/9/2014, Governor’s Island, NY, Global Positioning System (So You Say You Want a Revolution), Westside Gallery, NY, 28/7/2012- 18/8/2012, At Maroudia’s: in the framework of Terra Mediterranea in Crisis, House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios (the Ethnological Museum), Nicosia, Cyprus, 4/7/2012-30/12/2012, Ostrale 2011, International Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Arts, Dresden, Germany, 1/7/2011-4/9/2011, London Greek Film Festival, London, UK, 17/10/2011-25/10/2011, Chypre 2010, L’art au present, Espace Commines...