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 treats water not simply as subject matter but as material, witness and collaborator. Her recent work explores blue as both a material and symbolic language through which questions of memory, ecology and transformation emerge.

Her practice is rooted in a long-standing investigation of water that has evolved from painting into material, sonic and site-responsive research. She 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 entered the collection of the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2020. She has also attended 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
2003 Studies in drawing and color, Michalis Veloudios Art Studio, Greece
2000 B.A. in Fine/Studio Arts General, University of La Verne, California, USA

SELECTED:
2025 — RCA Graduate Show, Royal College of Art, London
2025 — Motherhood, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London
2024 — Pop Up, Crawley Public Space, London
2020 — Into the Deep, E Art Gallery, Paros, Greece
2019 — Surprise X, The Project Gallery, Athens
2019 — Celestial Views, Institute of Fine Arts Tsichritzis, Athens — Solo
2008 — Hydroexperiences, Galerie Privée Onnik, Athens — Solo