Myrto Xanthopoulou was born in Helsinki in 1981. She lives and works in Athens. She studied fine arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and art history at Deree – The American College of Athens. Her practice is characterized by the use of everyday materials, handicraft and text. Her work consists of installations, sculptures and drawings, which attempt to articulate a poetic of the ordinary and the intimate, the unbearable and the silly. In 2020 she presented her fourth solo show in Athens, titled ΜΠΟΥΦΑΝ, and she has participated in various exhibitions in Greece and abroad, at museums, galleries and independent art spaces.