Maria Louizou

Maria Louizou is a Greek sculptor born and based in Athens. The main body of her work consists of sculptural installations embedded with vocal compositions she creates herself. She studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and theory of music composition (classical and electronic) at the Athens Conservatoire. In 2019, her work was presented in New York, as part of the annual benefit exhibition Tabula Rasa running under the artistic direction of Robert Wilson; as well as in Beijing, where she was awarded the prize China Taiyuan International Youth Metal Sculpture 2018. She has also shown her work as part of the “Theorimata” exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST). She participated in the Summer Residency of the Watermill Center in New York, under donations from collectors Cornelia Long and Franz Wassmer. In 2019, she had her first solo show “22°C” at Sinestetica Gallery in Rome, whereas her second solo show “Six Breaths per Minute” was presented at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center in Athens. She also presented a collaborative project together with Columbia University and the Victoria Square Project group as an Artist in Residence in 2021. In 2022, she was a fellow of the artist-in-residence programs at The Watermill Center, Atelier des Arques, as well as Delfina Foundation.