Markella Lousidis

Born and raised in Athens, Greece, Markella Lousidis is a Greek-American painter whose practice explores preservation as a force that shapes both collective and individual identity. Working primarily with acrylic paint, she examines how histories, myths and personal memories are constructed, maintained and transformed over time.

Drawing from her experience of growing up between cultures, her earlier work questioned national identity through themes of tourism, gentrification and cultural heritage, exploring what societies choose to preserve and what gradually becomes performance.

Her recent work turns towards personal memory and the difficulty of forgetting in a digital age. Photographs that continually resurfaced from past relationships and experiences became the starting point for paintings that question what happens when memories we might otherwise lose or reshape remain permanently accessible.

By translating these memories into paint, Lousidis slows their circulation and creates space to transform rather than simply preserve them. Her work explores the tension between the fluid nature of human memory and the permanence of digital records.

Her education has followed an independent and international path, combining classical a...

2026 — Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
Advanced Painting Intensive | May 25 – July 3, 2026

2025 — Royal College of Art, London, UK
Graduate Diploma in Art & Design | Merit | January 6 – September 3, 2025

2022–2024 — Classical and Contemporary Fine Art Training
Independent art studies in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Athens and London.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 — PROJECT 20, Eos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2024 — ATHENAS (ΑΘΕΝΑΣ), Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2026 — Advanced Painting Intensive Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
2025 — Ethereal Horizons, Spazio Levante, Venice, Italy
2024 — Art San Diego, Circle Gallery, San Diego, USA
2024 — Exhibition 24!, Pame Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 — Future Landscapes, Borders International Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2023 — Rome International Art Fair, 8th Edition, Medina Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
2023 — Mixing Identities, The Line Contemporary Art Space, London, UK
2023 — Secret Spaces, Borders Art Fair, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2022 — Sweet Tooth, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
2021 — Contemporary II, Boomer Gallery, London, UK
2015 — Words & Works, The Venice Art Factory, Venice, Italy
2015 — Biennale of Chianciano, Museo d'Arte di Chianciano, Chianciano Terme, Italy
2013 — London Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2011 — Biennale of Chianciano, Museo d'Arte di Chianciano, Chianciano Terme, Italy