Mouzakitou Fryni (1964)

Born in Athens in 1964, she studies painting at the ASFA under Elias Dekoulakos (1982-1987) and continued on a Greek State scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London (1989-1991), where she also took classes in computer graphics. From 1993 to 2001 she taught at private art schools (Mocume, Plakas, ΑΚΤΟ), and from 2001 to 2014 she collaborated with the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, initially as lab associate (2001-2004) and then as assistant professor in the Dept of Interior Architecture, Decoration & Design.
In her first solo exhibition at the Ileana Tounta Centre for Contemporary Art in 1995 she created Aquarium, an environment inspired by the marine world. She continued with the series On Inebriation (Spirits, 1997), in which her 3D polyester constructions examione the effect of wine on the body and mind. In 1999, her exhibition Free Range (Ileana Tounta Centre for Contemporary Art) featured photos, painting and constructions in an installation about personal experiences and the relationship between childhood memories and adulthood. Later, in Image Factory I (Ileana Tounta, 2009) she comments on contemporary social reality with purely painterly media, starting from furniture adverts and in particular from images of empty seats that 'pose' as substitutes of the human presence. In more recent creations (Image Factory II, Corinth Municipal Library & Transformations, Hermoupolis Art Gallery, 2011) the "chair" theme reappears in large-scale paintings, constructions and installations that hint at the relation between natural and metaphysical and the feeling of absence.
She has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has participated in numerous group shows and international events in Greece and abroad (Switzerland, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, China, etc.). Her works can be found in the collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Coutts Bank, the National Bank of Greece, the Intercontinental Hotel, the Municipal Galleries of Syros and Corinth as well as in private collections.