About the Artist

 

Elena Smyrniotis

Elena is an international multimedia artist residing in United States since 1998. Her installations investigate relationships between architecture, space and abstracted topography to underscore environmental nexus in constructed landscape and in relationship to nature. Elena’s most recent projects seek to address climatic impact of melting ice caps and the progressive decimation and loss of bees and other pollinators. As an actively exhibiting artist, Elena has had solo exhibitions of her work and has frequently participated in national and international group shows. Her exhibition record includes shows at PINEA-LINEA DE COSTA (Rota, Spain), International Art and Design Exhibition in Selçuk University (Konya, Turkey), solo shows at Levitt Gallery (Iowa City, IA), CSPS (Cedar Rapids, IA), Artlink Gallery (Fort Wayne, IN), and at the Snite Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), where she was awarded the Walter Beardsley Award in 2017.

Elena's background and bilingualism inform her academic interests in intercultural cooperation and her approach to teaching. Her experiences at a global network of cultural institutions includes fellowship at the Rome Global Gateway in Italy, teaching printmaking workshop at the Gems Metropolitan School in Dubai, OAE, partaking in a painting workshop at The Painting School of Montmiral in France, working as a professional architect in St Petersburg, Russia. Elena Smyrniotis was a GrantWood Fellow and visiting assistant professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa.

Currently, Elena Smyrniotis is a Fulbright Specialist at the Selcuk University, Faculty of Fine Arts, in Konya, Turkey.

Education:

MFA, University of Notre Dame, IN                                      

MA, University of St Francis, IN                                              

MA, Architecture, Engineering, State Petroleum University, Ufa, Russia

 
 
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Contact Elena

 

Professional Presintations, Interviews and Publications

https://issuu.com/uima/docs/stanley_spring_21_final_for_issuu

https://dailyiowan.com/2021/05/04/grant-wood-fellow-creates-interactive-community-art-project-emphasizing-importance-of-bees/

https://grantwood.uiowa.edu/fellows/elena-v-smyrniotis

  • Embracing the Wilds printmaking conference, panel [Not] A Trace: Bordering, Memory, and Belonging presentation, September 2020

  • Here There / Poetics of Place, Catalogue, The Ink Shop, Ithaca College, 2017 Ithaca, NY

  • Visiting Artist, Guest Speaker, University of St Francis, 2019 Fort Wayne, IN