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Maira Stefou was born and lives in Athens, Greece.

She studied at first Interior and Graphic Design, and afterwards she received a BA and a MA with honors in Visual arts from Athens School of Fine Arts {painting (Panos Charalampus), etching (Vicky Tsalamata, Apostolos Pirounidis), multimedia (Manthos Santorinaios) video art (Vicky Betsou), Sound (Taxiarchis Diamantopoulos)}.

She has worked as an interior designer and as a creative art director for advertising and publishing firms, and as a freelancer in communication design, illustration and stage design, before she decided to dedicate herself to visual arts.
In 2018 she found the art group “WEDOartptojects”.

She deals with issues of environment, history, memory, time, identity, psychology, philosophy.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Labyrinth” | ASFA Degree show | Athens School of Fine Arts | 2019 

“I don’t know” | Underflow art gallery | 2016

“Jazzin” | Polis art | 2015

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Stigma” by “ΔΙΠΟΛΑ”
   Municipal Gallery of Piraeus | Curating: Efthymis Lazogas | 2022

“On the web of Penelope”
   by “ΔΙΠΟΛΑ” | Michael Cacoyianni Foundation | Curating: Efthymis Lazogas | 2021

“Krypton”
   Municipal Gallery of Chalkida “Dimitris Mytaras” | Curating: Efthymis Lazogas, Fei Tzanetoulakou | 2021

“Mixing Identities”
  “The Line” Contemporary Art Space, Craft Central, London | Curator: Luca Curci | 2021

• “Invisible governments: “Gnosis” as a state of the self”
   Circuits & Currents | Curator Kostis Stafylakis | 2015

• “Deffered action: Adaptations of artistic radicalism”
   Contemporary Greek Art Institute (ISET) | Curator Kostis Stafylakis | 2015

CURATING

“Make a wish” by “WEDO art projects” | on Platform Projects Independent art fair | Technopolis City of Athens | 2023

“Home-less” by “WEDO art projects” | on Platform Projects Independent art fair | Athens School of Fine Arts | 2022

“Giving” by “WEDO art projects” | on Platform Projects Independent art fair | Athens School of Fine Arts | 2018

AWARDS

“Shut up or Rather speak/Taci, Anzi, Parla” | La Galleria nazionale, Rome, for Video art “I don’t know” | 2020
   https://lagallerianazionale.com/en/2020/04/16/shut-up-or-rather-speak/?fbclid=IwAR1nPlO_phJZckCZcgwUv59bmdEliL-qzqbHy6HtgkZzXXQpALyhT6a7QK8

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