BIO
ABOUT
Lily Hassioti (b. 1994) is a multimedia artist that, lives and works between London and Athens.
Lily is a founding member of Athens Open Studio, a space focusing on practice-led inquiry and creative education since 2018. In 2020 she was awarded the ARTWORKS fellowship by Stavros Niarchos foundation. She completed her undergraduate studies in Fine Art (2016) in DJCAD in Dundee, Scotland where she received the RSA John Kinross scholarship to Florence. Currently, Lily is a postgraduate student in Goldsmiths University, completing an MFA in Computational Arts, with a scholarship by NEON organisation.
Through site-specific works, sound installations, interactive sculptures and ephemeral happenings, I explore interconnectedness within biological, technological, and plant networks. Using a diverse approach and a number of different media, I blend personal stories with fictional and historical ones, to think about the ways we experience and relate to our surroundings. These inquisitions manifest in a spatial, material and performative way, as instances for a sensorial and phenomenological understanding of being part of a dynamic eco-system and an “Internet of Things”.
AWARDS &
RESIDENCIES
Styria-Artist-in-Residence 2023 (Upcoming)
Awarded by the Culture Department of the Federal State of Styria, Austria
THIN AIR Micro-Residency 2023
The BEAMS, London
A collaboration between Goldsmiths and UCLA Conditional Studio
ARTWORKS 2020 -2021
Stavros Niarchos Fellowship Award
RSA:NC 2017
Selected artist for RSA New Contemporaries
Exhibition ( 18 Feb - 15 March )
RSA John Kinross Award- 2016
Scholarship to Florence
DJCAD Undergraduate Prize - 2015
Awarded the Armistead Bursary for excellent performance
PUBLIC WORKS
2018
Courtyard, For Kinono Art Gathering, Volax, Tinos island , GR
The Garden of Evolution, Athens International Airport - Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens, GR
2016
The Garden of Evolution, Dundee Botanic Gardens, Dundee, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Kunstraum Steiermark 2022. Scholarship Holders”, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria AT
Presenting: Looking for Ilissos, Collaborative project with Lena Violetta Leitner
2022
Looking for Ilissos, State of Concept gallery, Athens, GR
Collaborative project with Lena Violetta Leitner
2020
Serving off Matter, (Exhibition behind closed doors), Athens Open Studio, Athens, GR
Back to Athens 7: μetaΑθήνα / pόστΑθενς, (New ritual society), Eolou st. 48-50, Athens, GR
2019
Athens Digital Arts Festival 15 years, FOKAS, Athens, GR
EXPOSITION 1 , Athens Open Studio, Athens, GR
COAST, An Talla Solais, Ullapool, UK
Urban Ecologies Flow, Phoenix Gallery, Athens, GR
2018
Scroll (with Ileana Arnaoutou) , Themistoklis Papaioannou Gallery, Athens, GR
2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Instituto Cervantes, Athens, GR
CAVE After Plato (with Lucy Wayman) , Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK
RSA: New Contemporaries 2017, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2016
Graduates Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,Dundee, UK
Paradigm Electronic Arts, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
PROJECTile, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
2015
In Transit, Matthew gallery, DJCAD, Dundee, UK
2014
Make:Shift:Do Dundee, Matthew Building foyer, DJCAD, Dundee, UK
Aurora, GSA Grace & Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Constructed Materiality, Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK
PROJECT COORDINATION
Serving off Matter, 2020
(Exhibition behind closed doors), Athens Open Studio, Athens, GR
EXPOSITION 1, 2019
Athens Open Studio, Athens, GR
CAVE After Plato, 2017 (with Lucy Wayman),
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK
PROJECTile, 2016
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
MEDIA
ART & TECHNOLOGY: the new generation of Greek artists (born after 1985) by VEKTOR
Published in Academia.edu, 2023
Documentation video for the 15th Athens Digital Arts Festival
18 June 2019
Interview for project 210 by Multilab Productions
20 June 2017, project210.gr (online)
"Degree Show review: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee"
28 May 2016, The Scotsman (online)
"DJCAD Degree Show 2016: Fine Art (Sculpture, Matthew Building)"
21 May 2016, Dundee University Review of the Arts (online)
"Ones to watch at this year’s Art School degree shows"
20 May 2016, The LIST (online)
"Heartfelt remembrances at Dundee's art college"
28 May 2016, The Herald Scotland (online & print)
"Garden will be alive with the sound of music"
27 April 2016, Evening Telegraph (print)
"Botanic Garden: Art installation gets interactive"
26 April 2016, The Courier (print)
"The Garden of Evolution" part of IGNITE Dundee Festival
25 April 2016, Ignite Festival (online)
"The Garden of Evolution - an exhibition by Lily Hassioti"
5 April 2016, University of Dundee (online)