ABOUT
Louiza Vradi is a visual artist working with a diverse range of media including photography, video, new media and textile based in Athens, Greece.
She holds a BFA and MFA in visual arts, new media, sculpture, and art education from Athens School of Fine Arts. Within her photographic and video work she navigates social documentary practices, delving into themes such as personal and collective memories, human movement, gender issues, intergenerational trauma, and our relationship with the land we inhabit, whilst focusing in the healing and spiritual aspects of creation. She often looks at the effects of the sociopolitical environment on individuals and rituals incorporated in contemporary society
Moreover, she is an art educator, and she has been trained in art and photo therapy, offering support and healing to individuals with mental and psycho-social disabilities, as well as those battling addiction. She has worked in varied roles in the creative industry such as photographer, video journalist, director, writer, production manager and industrial designer. In addition to her artistic pursuits, she has been working as a stringer photojournalist for Reuters since 2020. In 2023 she completed a Hostile Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT) by Reuters.
She is a member of Women Photograph and Greek Documentary Association. She was named one of 30 under 30 best women photographers for 2020 by Artpil and she has been awarded with the VII Academy Scholarship. Her work can be found in international media such as The Economist, The New York Times, Vogue, Le Monde, The Guardian, Monocle, Reuters, Financial Times, Penguin Books, BBC, Die Zeit, The Washington Post, M Le Magazine, Dazed, Paris Fashion Week, Siemens, etc. She has showcased her artworks in museums and galleries such as The Benaki Museum, Onassis Stegi, The Breeder gallery, among others. In 2023 she was awarded by the Greek Documentary Association for her documentary film in progress about the life of Anna Ivankova and she attended the Agora of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2024. She is one of the Futures Photography talents selected by VOID for 2024.
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SELECTED Exhibitions
2023 Exit exhibition at Hydra
2023 Photopolis Photo Festival
2022 Benaki Museum - Athens Photo Festival
2022 Athens School of Fine Arts
2021 Borders | Borderlands | Crossings
2021 Xarkis Festival
2021 Looming Together
2021 Noucmas - Womanhoods
2021 Platforms project
2020 Everything flows festival
2020 Artpil - 30 under 30 exhibition
2020 Chimeres space- Zine exhibition
2020 Der Greif- Guest Room
2020 Balkans Today - The present of a wounded landscape
2020 The Breeder gallery- First community auction
2020 the-chain - online exhibition
2019 Xouth Festival
2019 Roges autonomous exhibition in Nicosia
2019 Onassis Stegi - Entos Kali tychi
2018 KETHEA - Photo exhibition of the drug rehabilitation program
2017 SOUTH Space for Photography - Young Greek Photographers
2017 Kythera Photographic Encounters - Young Greek Photographers
AWARDS
2023 Greek Documentary Association Award
2022 Young Greek Photographers
2021 Xarkis Residency program
2021 Scholarship for the Sarajevo Seminar For Documentary and Narrative Practice 2021by VII Academy
2020 Everything Flows residency program
2020 Shortlisted at Format International Photography Festival
2020 30 under 30 Women Photographers
2017 Best Young Greek Photographers