Markella Lousidis

Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Markella Lousidis is an artist of Greek and American heritage working across painting, collage, and mixed media. Her practice explores the relationship between memory, identity, and cultural inheritance, examining how personal experience intersects with mythology, history, and contemporary life.

Drawing from photographs, lived experience, and collective narratives, Lousidis creates works that move between observation and transformation. Through layers of paint, collage, and gesture, she investigates themes of belonging, self-construction, and change, revealing identity as something continuously negotiated and reshaped.

Combining classical influences with contemporary concerns, her work merges figuration, memory, and material experimentation. Lousidis has exhibited internationally since the age of seven, with exhibitions in London, Athens, Italy, and the United States.

Royal College of Art, Grad Dip 2025. European Academies (Paris, Madrid, Berlin, London, Florence, Athens).

2025 July 18 – Aug 18, Ethereal Horizons, Collective Exhibition, Spazio Levante, Venice, Italy
2024 Nov 1-3, Art San Diego, Circle Gallery, San Diego California
2024 Sept 5 – 29, Exhibition 24!, Pame Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 Jul 21 – Aug. 8, Future Landscapes, Borders International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2023 Jul 14-27, Rome International Art Fair 2023, 8th edition, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023, Jun 23 – July 7, Mixing Identities, The Line Contemporary Art Space, London, United Kingdom
2023 Jun 16 – July 7, Secret Spaces, Borders Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2022 Jan 29 – Mar 6, Sweet Tooth, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Centre, Alexandria, Va, USA
2021 Dec 17-23, Contemporary II, Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom
2021 Nov 12-18, What is Art? III, Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge, London, United Kingdom
2015 Oct 17-20, Words & Works, The Venice Art Factory, Venice, Italy