Eirene Efstathiou is a visual artist working with a variety of different media, from painting and printmaking to performance and small-scale installations. Her practice focuses on collective and archival memory, sentiment and affect and investigates the imprint these elements bear on the public sphere. She holds a Studio Art Diploma and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2013) from Tufts University in Boston, where she studied painting and printmaking. She is also a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and of the Athens School of Fine Arts (MFA 2010) where she is also doing her PhD since 2013, for which she was awarded a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation.  Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (2019) and Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (2017) and included in group exhibitions and collections at DEPO Istanbul (2019); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, (2018); the collection of the Athens National Museum of Contemporary Art for documenta 14, Kassel (2017); DESTE foundation’s collection at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2017); the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2017); and the Benaki Museum, Athens (2016). In 2009 she was the recipient of DESTE Foundation’s  DESTE Prize and in 2019 she was awarded a scholarship to complete her doctoral research by the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development.  Efstathiou lives and works in Athens.