Antigoni Kavvatha is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in a deep engagement with nature. Drawing inspiration from the organic world, her works abstract forms, colors, and spatial relationships—particularly through the recurring motif of trees. These trees exist between life and death, some dormant, others marked by arson, lightning, or drought, serving as metaphors for resilience and decay.

Her ongoing fascination with shadows plays a central role in her compositions. In Kavvatha’s work, shadows are not simply allusions, but protagonists—forming large, dreamlike landscapes that reflect narrative tension and introspection. These projected images serve as mirrors of memory and imagination.

Kavvatha resists the constraints of a singular visual identity. Instead, she embraces constant transformation, allowing current events, personal reflections, and socio-political conditions to shape her creative direction. Her most recent body of work consists of collage-based paintings that merge digital and print media, archival research, and personal photography. These pieces construct a layered, timeless terrain, revealing a parallel world—familiar yet unsettling, immediate yet inconceivable.

By working across both two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, Psoma moves fluidly between intuitive and methodical approaches. She frequently incorporates archival sources—from folklore, poetry, and contemporary narratives—allowing material and concept to inform each other symbiotically.

Psoma does not aim to depict external visual reality as an end in itself. Rather, she uses it as a starting point to evoke internal states—juxtapositions of tension, memory, and form. Her artistic language constructs an introspective cosmos, where oppositions like chaos and order, vulnerability and strength, coalesce within the framework of a contemporary female gaze.

Antigoni Kavatha – CV

Education

• 1982–1984 – MFA, School of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
• 1981 – Drawing and Painting, Art Students League of New York, NY, USA
• 1980 – History of American Art, Painting, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY, USA
• 1979 – Graduate Student, University of Quebec, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 1974–1979 – BA in Painting, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

Solo Exhibitions

• 2022 – ‘JOURNEY’, Municipal Gallery of Larisa, I. Katsigras Museum, Larisa, Greece
• 2019 – ‘NEXUS’, Ekfrasi – Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2019 – ‘NEXUS’, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
• 2017 – ‘Sacred Trees’, curated by Lefteris Xanthos, Astypalaia, Greece
• 2015 – ‘Tapetum Lucidum’, curated by Yannis Bolis, Ekfrasi – Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2011 – ‘Chthonic Serpents and Sacred Trees’, curated by Pegy Kounenaki, Fizz Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2009 – ‘Shadows II’, curated by Guy Reziciner, Fragmental Museum, NY, USA
• 2009 – ‘Shadows II’, special installations, Flux Factory, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• 2008 – ‘Shadows II’, Tsatsis Projects / Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2007 – ‘Tracking Erebus’, Verena Foundation, Hydra, Greece
• 2005 – ‘Shadows’, Galerie 3, Athens, Greece
• 2005 – ‘Small Paintings 2000–2004’, Art Gallery L-S, Elounda Mare, Crete, Greece
• 1995 – ‘Gazi 1991–1994’, Galerie 3, Athens, Greece
• 1991 – ‘The Wall’, Spot Thomson, Athens, Greece
• 1991 – ‘Paintings’, Galerie 3, Athens, Greece

Group Exhibitions

• 2023 – OSTEN Biennial of Drawing, National Gallery of N. Macedonia, Skopje (Special Award)
• 2023 – ‘ARK’, 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2022 – ‘3 Dimensions’, Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress, Chania, Crete, Greece
• 2021 – Larnaca Biennial, Cyprus (First Award)
• 2020 – ‘Kenotomies’, Politropon Art Space, Kalivia, Attiki, Greece
• 2019 – ‘Studio in Time’, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
• 2019 – ‘Permanent Collection I’, Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress, Crete, Greece
• 2019 – ‘Man on the Moon’, The Project Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2019 – ‘The Holly Grail’, The Project Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2019 – ‘Still Alive’, The Project Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2019 – ‘Don’t leave me this way’, Vout-O-Reenee’s, London, UK
• 2018 – ‘Zbritzam’, Sokratous Studio, Athens, Greece
• 2018 – ‘Memory of the Revolution’, Municipal Gallery of Larisa, Greece
• 2018 – ‘Art is a Way Out of Sexual Problems’, Freud Dream Museum, Russia
• 2018 – ‘Dimocracy’, Eptapirgio, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2018 – ‘The Amazing Light of Your Own Existence’, Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress, Crete
• 2018 – ‘Culture Bridge’, Cifte Amam, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje
• 2018 – ‘Green Habitat’, Shiva Gallery – CUNY, NY, USA
• 2018 – ‘Symphony in 20 Parts’, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2018 – ‘Memory of the Revolution’, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
• 2017 – ‘Right to the Future’, MISP, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2017 – ‘Estia-zo’, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2017 – ‘Evressis #1’, ISET, Athens, Greece
• 2017 – ‘Memory of the Revolution’, SMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2017 – ‘BacktoBack’, Back to Athens Festival, Greece
• 2017 – ‘No Milk Today’, Exarchia, Athens, Greece
• 2016 – ‘Back to Athens 2016’, Exarchia, Athens, Greece
• 2016 – ‘Art-Athina 2016’, Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, Greece
• 2016 – ‘Wine Spirit’, Casa Bianka, Thessaloniki & Lemnos, Greece
• 2015 – ‘Ploes 21: Nepenthe and Eothina’, Andros, Greece
• 2015 – ‘The European Hospitality and its Borders’, Olivepress Museum, Crete, Greece
• 2015 – ‘Fairies Re-Tales’, Cultural Center of Chania, Greece
• 2014 – ‘Secret Garden’, Archeological Museum of Kissamos, Crete
• 2014 – ‘Harmony’, 22nd Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
• 2014 – ‘Tradition – Reversal’, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Bosnia-Herzegovina
• 2014 – ‘Recontextualizing the Found’, Shiva Gallery – CUNY, NY, USA
• 2013 – 4th Thessaloniki Biennale, SMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2013 – ‘The National Garden’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
• 2013 – ‘Totem Without Taboo’, Parthenis Store, Chania, Crete
• 2012 – ‘Extraversion’, Sismanoglio, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2012 – ‘The Pet City Exhibition’, Melanithros Art Space, Athens, Greece
• 2011 – ‘Permanent Collection I’, Olivepress Museum, Crete, Greece
• 2008 – ‘Art + Nature’, Vila Kazouli, Athens, Greece
• 2007 – ‘Artistic Innovation’, SMCA, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2007 – ‘Artmar 2007’, Biennale de la Mediterrania, Barcelona, Spain
• 2007 – ‘Strong Women – Picturesque Worlds’, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Hydra, Greece
• 1999 – ‘The Wedding Dress’, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece