Lilia Ziamou is a Greek and American interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her work investigates the intersections of body, materiality, and technology, reimagining anatomical structures through digital and physical transformations.

Combining classical techniques such as stone carving, casting, and draping with digital fabrication, digital imaging, and medical imaging, Lilia Ziamou dissects and reconstructs the anatomy of bones. Through successive physical and digital transformations, her work questions how technological interventions blur the boundary between natural and engineered. Her work considers how the body is increasingly understood as both a physical entity and a virtual model, where biological structures are mirrored, predicted, and altered in digital space –creating a body that is neither fixed nor fully autonomous.

At the core of her practice is a critical engagement with technology as both an enabler and disruptor—a force that simultaneously preserves, alters, and redefines the body. Her approach emerges from ongoing reflections on the fundamental questions of essence: What is essential to the body? Does its essence require permanence, or can it bend, morph, and adapt as it enters new contexts?

Lilia Ziamou’s research and artistic practice materialize transformation, embedding personal and collective histories into form. Through successive layers of physical and digital intervention, her work traces the shifting relationship between the body and technology, revealing a continuum where biological structures, synthetic materials, and virtual models converge.

Recent exhibitions include House of Lucie - Center for Photography (Athens, Greece, 2025), Brâncuși Gallery at The Romanian Cultural Institute (New York, NY, 2025), Contemporary Textile Art Biennial (Guimarães, Portugal, 2024), AUP Fine Arts Gallery at The American University of Paris (Paris, France, 2024), NIKA Project Space (Dubai, UAE, 2023), The Artist Workspace (London, UK, 2023), Whitebox (New York, NY, 2022), Museo La Tertulia (Cali, Colombia, 2022), and Filter Space (Chicago, IL, 2021). She was a Fulbright / Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow (2017), and an artist in Residence of the Sigg Foundation (2023) and the Museum of Arts and Design (2014). She received her Master’s from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2013).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Skin as Shelter, House of Lucie - Center for Photography, Athens, Greece - curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, 2025.
Brâncuși Reimagined: A Legacy Alive, Brâncuși Gallery, The Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, NY - curated by Michael Wolf and Luisa Tuntuc, 2025.
Surréalismes Paris 2024, AUP Gallery at The American University of Paris, Paris, France - curated by Stéphane Treilhou, 2024.
Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal, 2024.
I Can No Longer Produce the Limits of My Own Body, NIKA Project Space, Dubai, UAE - curated by Nadine Khalil, 2023.
Imaginarium, The Artist Workspace, London, UK - curated by Nina Paiva and Zoë Goetzmann, 2023.
Deshilar, la revolución cotidiana, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia - curated by Yohanna M. Roa, 2022.
Matriarchive in Resistance, Whitebox, New York, NY - curated by Yohanna M. Roa, 2022.
Off the Cloth, Whitebox, New York, NY - curated by Karen Cordero Reiman and Juan Puntes, 2022.
The Right To Breathe, Undercurrent, Brooklyn, NY - curated by Sozita Goudouna, 2021.
Context 2021, Filter Space, Chicago, IL - curated by Juli Lowe, 2021.
Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki.com - curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, 2020 - online.
Body Politic, Kimmel Galleries, New York University, New York, NY - curated by Pamela Jean Tinnen (solo), 2019.
Transplants, The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, New York, NY - curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos, 2018.
Not What You Think it Is, Consulate General of Greece in New York, New York, NY (solo), 2017.
Unbound, Gallery Epta, Athens, Greece (solo), 2016.
Revealing Moments, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY (solo), 2013.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mahon, Alyce (2025). “The Object-Poems of Lilia Ziamou.” International Journal of Surrealism, Vol. 3, No 1, Fall, pp. 113-124.
Morelli, Naima (2024). “The Body, Intimacy and Technology in the Middle East.” The Markaz Review, February 4.
Kirk Hanley, Sarah (2014). “It’s a MAD 3D-Printed World: The Future of Digitally Fabricated Art.” Art in Print, March.

SELECTED PRESS
Eastwood, Gracie (2023). “The New Ecofeminist Exhibition Exploring Art and Identity.” GQ Middle East, November 14.
Selections Magazine (2023). “I Can No Longer Produce the Limits of My Own Body at NIKA Project Space.” Featured Exhibitions, November 8.
Espíndola Hernández, Samuel (2022). “The JMA Matriarchive in Resistance.” Art Review City, September 14.
Yook, Katie (2020). “Lilia Ziamou Creates Fragmented Bodies by Scanning Bones.” Agora Digital Art.
MUSEE Magazine (2020). “Emerging Artist: Lilia Ziamou.” Issue No. 24: Identity, pp. 84-85.
Lambert, Audra (2019). “Skin Deep: The Exhilarating ‘Body Politic’ on View at NYU’s Kimmel Windows.” ANTE, October 25.
“NYU Kimmel Windows Gallery Presents Lilia Ziamou: body politic.” NYU News Release, September 5, 2019.
Doyle, India (2018). “9 Emerging Greek Artists to Watch Out for This Year.” Culture Trip, February 20.
Spirou, Kiriakos (2016). “The Highlights of Athens Gallery Weekend.” Yatzer.com, December 26.
Athens Voice (2016). “Λἰλια Ζιἀμου, Unbound.” December.
Clark, Nick (2013). “Cutting-Edge Technology: 3D Printed Artworks Exhibited, and Not a Paper Jam in Sight.” The Independent, November 7.

SELECTED WRITING, INTERVIEWS, RECORDINGS
Ziamou, Lilia (2025). “The Bone as (Bandage) Dress.” International Journal of Surrealism, Vol. 3, No 1, Fall, pp. 116-119 (forthcoming).
Ziamou, Lilia (2025). “Digital Twins: Bones as Flesh: Redrawing Territories Through Indeterminate Bodies.” Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice, Vol 10, No 2, pp. 211-217 (forthcoming).
Ziamou, Lilia | NIKA Project Space (2024), Audio/Video Feature. Artist reading; video produced by NIKA Project Space (YouTube Channel).
The Debutante (2021). “Fashioning the Fragments of Female Form: The Debutante in conversation with Lilia Ziamou.” September 30.
Yook, Katie (2020). “Lilia Ziamou: Digital Bodies as Narratives.” Spotify Podcast.

SELECTED AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
Sigg Art Foundation Residency, Athens Greece, 2023.
Fulbright Foundation / Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellowship, 2017.
Museum of Arts and Design, Artist Studio Residency, New York, NY, 2014.

SELECTED PUBLIC SPEAKING
Lilia Ziamou: The Body as Site of Invention - In conversation with Agnès Rocamora, Charlotte Hodes and Michèle Danjoux, University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion, London, UK, February 2022.
The Bone as (Fashion) Statement, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, 2021.
Material Matters, Aristotle University, School of Architecture, Greece, 2019.
Bodies Unbound, Columbia University, 2016.