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