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Polina Zioga (born in Athens, Greece) is a multimedia visual artist working mainly with digital technologies and new media, creating prints, videos and installations.

As a child, she was frequently visiting her father’s research laboratory. The testing tubes and the microscopes, through which she was observing cells and microorganisms, were for her an infinite “game” of exploration and fantasy. Later she found herself studying at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Health Sciences (graduated in 2002) and immediately afterwards at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Visual Arts Department (graduated in 2007 magna cum laude).

Her work is dominated by issues such as corporeality through personal experience and autobiographical references, the reversal and the concepts of metamorphosis, soul, time and decay, drawing a course from the inside/personal to the outside/collective. Since 2004 it is being presented internationally in art exhibitions, video-art and film festivals.

Solo Exhibitions
2012 “The Shelter”, Fournos Center for Digital Culture, Athens, Greece.
2008 “Pro-Art” art gallery, Athens, Greece.

Artist talks - Lectures
2010 “Five visuals artists discuss about the use of new media in art: Eleni Dimitropoulou, Dimitra Ermeidou, Athina Robie, Eftichia Tzanetoulakou, Polina Zioga”, “Art-Act” art space, Athens, Greece.
2009 Presentation – open discussion with G. Kazazis, professor of the Athens School of Fine Arts, “Art-Act” art space, Athens, Greece.

Screenings in Video-Art and Film Festivals, Live Visuals Performances
2013 "Time is Love.6" international video-art program: KULTER. Gallery (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Peanut Underground Art Projects (New York City, USA), Sazmanab Platform for Contemporary Arts (Teheran, Iran), Mori+Stein Gallery (London, UK).
2011 "8th Naoussa International Film Festival", Naoussa, Greece.
2011 “3rd Moving Frames Festival”, Mytilene (Lesvos island), Greece.
2010 "ProjectOroom - Short Night II", London, UK.
2010 “International Film Festival of Patras City - 12th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers”, Patras City, Greece.
2010 “2nd Moving Frames Festival”, Mytilene (Lesvos island), Greece.
2010 “Festival Miden”, Historic Center of Kalamata, Greece.
2010 “Visions from the Future, International Video Contest, second edition 2010 .:Iridescent Worlds:.”, Torino, Italy.
2010 Live visuals @ tasman’s live musical performances.
2009 “1st Moving Frames Festival”, Mytilene (Lesvos island), Greece.
2009 “Videologies”, Tripoli, Greece.
2008 “Platforma Video 08 International Film Festival”, “Technopolis” of Municipality of Athens, Greece.
2008 “Festival Miden”, Historic Center of Kalamata, Greece.
2008 “Athens Video Art Festival”, “Technopolis” of Municipality of Athens, Greece.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 “Ambientarte III: Il mediterraneo, un mare che unisce, un mare che divide”, Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art “Giovanni da Gaeta” & “Associazione 900”, Gaeta, Italy.
2011 “Undisclosed Recipients”, the Art Foundation (taf), Athens, Greece.
2010 "DEPARTURES", Athinais Cultural Center, Athens, Greece.
2010 "ART-ATHINA 2010", Arteshop - Booth Μ2, Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo), Faliron Delta, Athens, Greece.
2009 “Graduating Class 2006-2007”, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece.
2008 “Picture-Space-Action 2”, “Technopolis” of Municipality of Athens, Greece.
2007 “Child”, “Paidon-Agia Sofia” Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.
2007 “Conversing with Rembrandt - Young Greek Artists are inspired by the great master’s work”, under the Aegis of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Dora Bakoyannis, “De Haagse Kunstkring”, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2006 "Conversing with Rembrandt-Young artists are inspired by the great master’s work”, under the Aegis of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, exhibition hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Athens, Greece.
2006 “Child”, Chantzikyriakeio foundation, Piraeus, Greece.
2005 “December 1st and every single day… a day against AIDS”, under the Aegis of the Municipality of Athens, Metro Syntagma exhibition area, Athens, Greece.
2004 “Body and Ancient Drama”, Kronos Factory, Elefsina.

Scholarships – Awards
2005 The Hellenic National Scholarship Foundation: scholarship for excellence in studies at the Visual Arts Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts.