Bio
Lily Hassioti (b. 1994) is a Greek artist based in London. Through process-based research, she creates site-specific projects, installations, moving images, and web-based works across various media.
Lily explores everyday interactions with mapping technologies and software, utilizing commercial navigation tools, algorithms, geographical information systems, electronic sensors, environmental data, and machine learning models in her projects. Her work questions our immersion in complex physical and computational environments, examining the role of perspective and embodiment, and the constant need for positioning and orientation.
Employing 'Mapp-ing' as a methodology, Lily unpacks existing mapping infrastructures, reflects on dominant technologies, revisits local knowledge, and creates new tools for encountering places. She harnesses mapping technologies' capacity to shape spatial, relational, and material understandings of the world, fostering new encounters with hybrid realities.
Lily's works are often participatory or interactive, reflecting on how we become part of cybernetic activities and feedback loops with software.
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.
Awards & Residencies
Transcending the Invisible 2024
Project in collaboration with the Photonics and Nanotechnology Group in the Department of Physics at King’s College London
Styria-Artist-in-Residence 2023
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
Exhibitions
2024
This is why the whole remains open [...], Goldsmiths, London UK
2023
Kunstraum Steiermark 2022. Scholarship Holders, Neue Galerie Graz, AT
Presenting: Looking for Ilissos, Collaborative project with Lena Violetta Leitner
Glocalities, Primarolia Festival 2023, Patra, GR
2022
Looking for Ilissos, State of Concept gallery, Athens, GR
Collaborative project with Lena Violetta Leitner
2020
Serving off Matter, Athens Open Studio, Athens, GR
(Exhibition behind closed doors)
Back to Athens 7: μetaΑθήνα / pόστΑθενς, Athens, GR
(New ritual society)
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, Themistoklis Papaioannou Gallery, Athens, GR
Exhibition with Ileana Arnaoutou
2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Instituto Cervantes, Athens, GR
CAVE After Plato, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK
Collaborative project & performance with Lucy Wayman
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
Public Works
2018
Courtyard, 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
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