EVANGELIA VATSAKI
Visual arts
Evangelia Vatsaki was born in 1987 on the island of Rhodes, where she currently lives and works. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, while one semester of her studies was completed at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. In addition, she has attended an animation workshop in Istanbul, Turkey. From 2017 to 2019 she co-curated the festival Nature of Art at the park of Rodini, in Rhodes, where she also kept the Yellow Diver art studio. She uses a wide range of media (painting, installation, performance, video and digital art) and she runs art workshops as part of her practice. Through her work, she explores and narrates the journey of her consciousness in the world. She has participated in various group exhibitions, and held a solo exhibition at the shelter perched at the top of Mountain Akramitis (2020), which included trekking and camping trips from which she takes inspiration and creates art and travelogues. In 2021, a retrospective exhibition of her 11-year drawing production was held at the Art Park of Rhodes. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2021).