Education

BA(Hons) Fine Art, Kingston University London, United Kingdom
(MA) Biennio Specialistico Art Therapy, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy

Awards

2016, Talent Prize, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art), Rome, Italy, orgnanised by InsideArt magazine

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Larnaca Biennale, Larnaca, Cyprus
2021 Mirrored Reflections-Memories of Tampered Identities, EVHOK, Larnaca, Cyprus
2020 Crossing 24/31, Goethe-Institut Zypern, Nicosia, Cyprus
2019 Platforms Project Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
2019 Peripheral Visions, former barracks (Polmare), Trieste, Italy
2018 Larnaca Biennale, Larnaca, Cyprus
2018 Platforms Project Athens, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
2017 Displacement as a state of mind, Korai, Nicosia, Cyprus
2017, Donne di colore, Torre dei Lambardi, Magione, Perugia, Italy
2016, Talent Prize, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art), Rome, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2014, Ποξιάς (Poxiàs), Apothikes Multispace, Larnaca, Cyprus


Residencies,Performances &Workshops

2020, Visual Voices Artist Residency, Cyprus
2016 The Rock Slide and the Woods Residency, Centrale Fies, Drò, Trentino, Italy

2017 An Evening of Japanese Butoh workshop and perfomance with Sanae Kagaya master of Tomoe Shizune and Hakutobo Butoh method, Point Centre of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
2017 Remote Pafos en-route performances, Rimini Protokoll collaborator, Pafos 2017, Cyprus
2017 From Actor To Mime workshop with Guillaume Pigé, Corporeal Theatre, Thoc Theatre, Nicosia, Cyprus
2017 Moving Bodies Festival Dublin, Butoh dance masterclasses, Dance Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Continuum workshops and performance by Luigi Coppola, Teatro Continuo Burri, XXI Triennale, Milan, Italy
2015 Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists, Group performance, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
2013 Emotion and movement dance-theatre workshop with Cristiana Morganti, Milan, Italy

Lenia Georgiou is a Cypriot Visual Artist and Art Therapist, born on 30/4/1990 in Adelaide (South Africa).

Her practice is grounded in the field of performance art, installation and painting. She is involved in bi-communal and socially oriented projects, that are an integral part of her work as they derive from her need to "redefine" borders - both physical and mental. Her work usually comments current social, political and cultural issues. Her works often have a nomadic function or a participatory/collaborative art-making. In addition, she has collaborated and participated in performances and residencies with internationally renowned artists while to date she has exhibited in countries such as Italy, Northern Macedonia, Greece and Cyprus. Lenia's work is mostly concerned with issues of displacement, relocation, and the basic human need of shelter. She is also interested in themes like the redefinition of borders, in social issues and in the norms and elements that define an individual's identity.

Lenia currently lives and works as a visual artist and art therapist in Cyprus exhibiting her work at an international level.