Artist Biography

Lilia Ziamou is a Greek and American interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her sculptures, installations, paintings, and drawings allude to the body transformed through technological intervention: physical or virtual.

A professor at The City University of New York in the areas of innovation, technology, and design, she chose to reenter the student world, obtaining her Master’s from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her training at the nexus of art and technology, as well as her research, contribute to an idiosyncratic approach, whereby the body is seen to be, not the sum of its limits, but a site of invention.

If her work exploits the suggestiveness of the fragment, the preoccupation is inherited. Having grown up among the classical ruins of her native Greece, she has always understood the fragment to be, not so much evidence of destruction or decay, but a referent waiting to be situated and a vessel for story.

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