BIO
Stefania Strouza (b. 1982, Zante, Greece) is a visual artist based in Athens. In 2007, she graduated as an Architect-Engineer from the Department of Architecture-Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. By 2015, she had obtained two master's degrees in Fine Art: a Master of Fine Art from the Department of Art, Space and Nature at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom), and a Magister of Art from the Department of Textual Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Austria).
She has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad, amongst others, at a.antonopoulou.art gallery (solo – 2024, 2017), Pinta Miami 2018, the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017), the Wiener Art Foundation (solo), the Neue Galerie Innsbruck (solo), the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (solo), the BOZAR in Brussels, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.
She has held artist residencies at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University (2016); the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau (2016); the Mexico City Residency of the Austrian Federal Chancellery for Art (2018); Mana Contemporary New Jersey (2018-19) and at CCA Andratx, Majorca (2020). Selected group exhibitions include the following: Plásmata II: Ioannina, (2023) curated by Prodromos Tsiavos, Giorgos Tzirtzilakis and Daphne Dragona, organized by Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, Greece, Eleonas-Chthonium and Anthropocene, curated by Dimitris Trikas, Eleonas Metro Station, Athens, Greece (2023) and No country for young men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, curated by Katerina Gregou, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2014).
Strouza is the recipient of the ARTWORKS Award of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the Emerging Artists Award of the National Bank of Greece.
In 2019 she participated in the exhibition The Palace at 4 a.m. at the Mykonos Archaeological Museum with a work commissioned by the NEON. in 2021 her solo show 212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle), curated by Daphne Dragona, was presented at annexM–Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Greece.
In 2023, Strouza received the Art Athina Young Artist Award which led to a solo exhibition in 2024, in MOMus – Museum Alex Mylona enntitled 'Primary Tide'.
Currently, she is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly.