Despina stokou biography

Greek artist

Despina Stokou (born in Athens, Greece) is a contemporary artist, writer and curator based in Los Angeles, California. She primarily produces gestural, expressive paintings, often large and displaying vivid color, that include layered collage elements like cut paper letters spelling out pointed phrases and topical passages that tumble and pile up across her canvases.^[1]

Background and education

Raised in Saudi Arabia and Athens, Greece, Stokou is the child of civil engineers.

She attended the German School of Athens in her youth. After first earning a degree in from the Technical Institute for Marketing and Publicity in Athens and then graduating from the Athens School of Fine Arts in , Stokou received a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program scholarship to study at the University of Fine Arts Berlin in the “Art in Context” department.^[2] In , she received a Master of Arts there and remained in Berlin for the subsequent decade: “What