Konstantina Krikzoni was born in 1987 in Chalkidiki, Greece and she currently lives and works in London. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, UK.
Blending ancient storytelling with contemporary sensibilities, the paintings of Konstantina Krikzoni are inhabited by elusive female figures. Evoking echoes of neoclassical nymphs or mythological sirens, these characters convey something more grounded, more primal an urgent desire to reconnect with the archetype of the Wise Mother and the timeless wisdom of feminine nature. Krikzoni’s work invites us to reconsider the relationship between women and nature between the body and memory. Krikzoni’s practice continually returns to the female body as a site of intersection between figuration and abstraction. In her paintings, the body becomes fractured and fluid, woven into a surface shaped by delicate layers of paint and disrupted by the trace of the line. Here, the line does not merely define, it dissolves, reappears and interrupts forming a terrain of emotional resonance and poetic tension.
Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally including: Armatura, L’Appartement Gallery, Geneva (forthcoming in 2026, solo); Nymphidia, Victoria Miro Projects, Online (2024, solo); Chamber, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2023, solo); Continuum, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK (2023, two-person); Anima Mundi: Here Now & Eternity, L’Appartement, Geneva, Switzerland (2025, group); Chiaroscuro: A Century of Charcoal, Victoria Miro Gallery, Venice, Italy (2025, group); Crooked Smile, Hope 93 Gallery, London, UK (2025, group); Malta International Biennale, Valletta, Malta (2024, group). Her work will also feature in the group exhibition Eruption at Jarvis Gallery, New York, USA curated by Max Werner. (2026). She was an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy (2023), culminating in the exhibition Shipping Address and participated in the Philippe and Marion Lambert Residency in Crete, Greece (2024).
Krikzoni has received several notable awards and scholarships, such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece (2021) and the NEON Scholarship (2020/21 and 2021/22), awarded by the NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Athens, Greece. She was also shortlisted for the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Germany (2021) and the Chadwell Award, London (2022). Her work features in private and institutional collections, including the Yageo Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan, and the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China.