Ioanna Kafida was born in Athens and grew up in Volos, Greece.
She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, under the
supervision of professors Dimitris Mytaras and Chronis Botsoglou.
Her works can be found in public and private collections.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 "Modulation", Gavras Art Gallery, Athens (pdf)
2007 Gavras Art Gallery, Athens (jpeg)
2003 "Pictorial itineraries", Metaxourgio, Volos
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 "Ploes", P. & M. Kydonieus Foundation in Andros, cur. Athina Schina
2013 "Art Athina", with Gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens
2013 "Grape and Wine", Gallery J & H Vati, Ermoupoli, Siros
2013 "Missolonghi and Lord Byron", Gallery X & A Moschandreou, Missolonghi
2012 "From the heart of our city", Galery Kaplanon 5, Athens
2012 "Face to Face", Frissiras Museum, Athens
2011 "Pictorial tribute to Alexandros Papadiamantis", Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens
2011 "Self-portraits", Gavras Art Gallery, Athens
2011 "The Garden of Illussions", Cube, Patras
2010 "Decomposing the canvas - Fabricating the image" Greek Painters, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, from Antonis & Azia Hatzioannou Collection
2010 "Human Standards", Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens
2010 "Sweet summer", History & Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina
2010 "Eye", Gazi
2010 "Speak, do not be afraid", Visual Quests
2010 "Welcoming Spring", Atrion, Thessaloniki
2010 "It happened in Athens", cur. Iris Kritikou, Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens
2009 "Summer Breeze", Visual Quests
2009 "Among the peanut trees", cur. Iris Kritikou - Manolis Peratikos, Tower Markelos, Aegina
2009 "New Generation Great Masters", Athens Art Space, Athens
2009 "20 artists + 1 reason ", Mansion Zafeireiou, Volos
2009 "Watercoloring the Greek landscape", Gallery of Contemporary Balkan Art, Limnos
2008 Porfirogenio Foundation, Agria, Volos
2008 "Painters' Aegina", Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina
2007 "Portrait", Art Gallery Gavras, Athens
2006 "The nude", Art Gallery Gavras, Athens
2005 New Artists Exhibition 'Melina Mercouri', Hydra
2003 "ASFA New Artists", Municipal Art Gallery of Karditsa
2003 Technopolis, Gazi, Athens
2003 Giorgio de Chirico Foundation, Volos
2002 1st National Exhibition of Miniature Art, Greece, Vafopouleio Cultural Center, Thessaloniki
2000 "2000 Cans", 'Lithography Workshop of Pireus street', Athens
2000 "Figure, Space, Time", Speerer Building, Volos
1999 "Ricordo di Elio Romano", Art Gallery 'Le Ciminiere', Italy
1998 ASFA students exhibition, Maris Hotel, Herakleion Crete
1997 Intl. Workshop "Process and Mentality", Delphi
Awards
1998 2nd Fine Arts Competition of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) graduates, organized by Creta Maris in collaboration with culture magazine "Ta Nea tis Technis" (Art News) and ASFA.
1997 "Matteo Rapissardi", Catania, Italy