Lia Lapithi
Lia Lapithi (born Lia Lapithi, 1963) is a Greek Cypriot artist specialising in multimedia and visual art. She currently resides in Nicosia.
Also recorded as Lia Lapithi Shukuroglou
Lia Lapithi
- Name
- Lia Lapithi
- Born
- 1963
- Birthplace
- Nicosia, Cyprus
- Field
- Visual Arts
- Occupation
- film director · painter · object artist · photographer
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Lia Lapithi (born Lia Lapithi, 1963) is a Greek Cypriot artist specialising in multimedia and visual art. She currently resides in Nicosia.
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Lia Lapithi (born 1963) is a film director, object artist and painter, among other activities. The film director was born in Nicosia.
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• Name — Lia Lapithi • Birth Name — Lia Lapithi • Born — 1963 • Birthplace — Nicosia, Cyprus • Field — Visual Arts • Website — lialapithi.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Lia Lapithi was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1963. She studied Art and Environmental Design at the University of California Santa Cruz, followed by a Master of Philosophy at Lancaster University. After her studies she returned to Cyprus in 1984. She continued her studies in 1989, obtaining a Master's degree in Architecture from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1991, followed by a Masters in Art Education from the University of Wales in 1994.
Career
Career
Her work focused initially on landscape and still-life painting through the use of technology, followed by medical art, evolving over time to also address environmental and political issues, including collective memory, nationalist historiography and the Cyprus Dispute. She has been credited for creating the first Cypriot feminist art group in 2006, called "Washing-Up Ladies". The group has addressed topics ranging from the relationship of women to contemporary Cypriot politics, to women's gender roles in Cypriot society. Lapithi's work has also been hosted by various museums and galleries, while numerous of her pieces form part of permanent museum collections. During her career she has exhibited her work in various locations, including in Athens, Alexandria, Paris, Vienna and Constantinople. In 2023, she also gained international attention as a core contributor to the Cyprus pavilion at the 18th Venice Biennale of Architecture, presenting the project From Khirokitia to Mars, which explored social sustainability, cultural heritage, and space exploration.
Selected publications
Selected publications
• 2011 Suspended Spaces #1 Famagusta - Blackjack editions (Montreuil, France) ISBN 978-2-918063-10-0. • 2012 Suspended Spaces #2 Blackjack editions (Paris) ISBN 978-2-918063-25-4. • 2012 Contre Nature, Musee Departemental de l’Oise-Beauvais, ISBN 978-2-901290-25-4. • 2014 Ethiques du gout, Editions L’ Harmattan, ISBN 978-2-343-03903-9. • 2014 Suspended Spaces #3, Les Editions de l’ Ecole des Beaux Arts.
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Permanent museum collections
Works of Lia Lapithi held in permanent museum collections include: • “Still-life III”, “Mechanical Billboard I”, “Blue Legs”, “Leg Operation video”, “Circulation Bed”, “Test Tube Bed”, “Olive-bread” “Defining Silence”, “Peace-Dinner” and "82,5km", held by the Cypriot State Collection of Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus. • "Marinated Crushed Olives" (video), held by Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. • "Marinated Crushed Olives" (video), held by the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseille, France. • "Requiem pour un oiseau rebelle" (installation), held by the Musées de la ville de Marseille in France. • "Defining Silence", held by the BPS22 Musee d’Art de la Provence de Hainut-Charlerois in Belgium.
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- 1.Photiou, Maria. The Green Line: Greek Cypriot Women Artists' Politicised Practices Lia Lapithi and Marianna Christofides. N.paradoxa. 30. 83–90. July 2012.
- 2.Socrates, Lisa. The Time and Space of Greek-Cypriot Cinema: A Deleuzian Reading. University College London. 2015.
- 3.Antoniou, Klitsa. Contemporary Cypriot Art: Loss, Trauma, Affect And The Material That Passes Into Sensation. Cyprus University Of Technology Faculty Of Fine And Applied Arts. 2014.
- 4.Cypriot Encyclopedia Polignosi. Λαπίθη Λία (Lapithi, Lia).
- 5.Askart. Lia Lapithi.
- 6.Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture - Cultural Services. 20th International Biennale of Alexandria. 1999.
- 7.Socrates, Lisa. Deterritorializing the Nation: Deleuzian Time, Space and Narrative in the Video Art of Lia Lapithi Shukuroglou. Journal of Literature and Art Studies. 2. 9. 897–904. September 2012. 2159-5836.
- 8.Gallery Kypriaki Gonia. Lia Lapithi.
- 9.Photiou, Maria. Who are We, Where do We Come From, Where are We Going to? Greek Cypriot Women Artists in Contemporary Cyprus. Women's Studies. 41. 8. 37–54. November 2012. 10.1080/00497878.2012.718691.
- 10.Biennale Architettura 2023 Cyprus (Republic of). La Biennale di Venezia. 2023-03-29.
- 11.Fakharany, Nour. The Cyprus Pavilion Examines Social Sustainability and Space Exploration at La Biennale di Venezia 2023. ArchDaily. 2023-04-06.
- 12.18η Διεθνής Έκθεση Αρχιτεκτονικής - Biennale Βενετίας: Εθνική συμμετοχή της Κύπρου με το «Θέ Από την Χοιροκοιτία στον Άρη». CultureNow.gr. 2023-04-12.
- 13.undefined. Μπιενάλε Αρχιτεκτονικής 2023: Το εργαστήρι του μέλλοντος. designsociety.gr.
- 14.Από την ΧΟΙΡΟΚΟΙΤΙΑ στον ΑΡΗ: Συμμετοχή Κύπρου στην 18η Μπιενάλε Αρχιτεκτονικής. Σύλλογος Αρχιτεκτόνων Κύπρου. 2025-07-17.
- 15.It's a long way from Chirokitia to Mars: Cyprus at the Venice Biennale. cyprus-mail.com. 2023-04-09.
- 16.Walk of Truth. The Location of Culture. 73.
- 17.CV of Lia Lapithi.
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