Evangelia Niarchou was born in 1986 in Athens. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (2008-2013) and of the Marble Sculpture Art School of Panormos in Tinos (2005-2008). She has completed an internship in scenography at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival and has completed part of her studies as an Erasmus student at the School of Fine Arts (FBAUP), University of Porto. She has participated in exhibitions, festivals, programs and workshops in Greece and abroad and has collaborated with curators, visual artists, scenographers, choreographers, architects, archaeologists and writers in a number of exhibitions, workshops, performances, illustrations and restoration works. In 2017, she received a grant from the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture to participate in the art residency program of the creation center Les Annexes du Château de Bourglinster, in collaboration with the visual artist M. Antonopoulou. In 2019, she was selected for the artist residency of the Aveyron Culture program (Rodez, France) as an artistic duo with visual artist Jeremy Lacombe. In 2021, she developed an artistic research project on contemporary art practices engaging with the unexplored folk culture of Xiromero in Aetolia-Akarnania, under a grant awarded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. In recent years, she has been living and working on the Greek island of Tinos. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS in 2022.