BIOGRAPHY

Lilia Ziamou is a Greek and American sculptor based in New York City. Her work begins with bone, the body’s most enduring form. Through classical sculptural techniques and technological processes, she reconfigures bone into body, wound, and flesh. Her practice draws on the fractured bodies of ancient Greek sculpture and their capacity to hold the essence of the whole within the part, an echo she extends through bone as a contemporary fragment, a vessel of memory open to continual revision. Her work reflects on the human desire to remake the body, to repair, redesign, and reinvent it, at a time when technology allows us to rebuild what biology once determined. Ziamou came to art through sustained research into innovative technologies and their possibilities for transforming human life, an inquiry that turned toward the body as technology’s most intimate site of intervention. That inquiry persists in her practice, where technology operates as both a tool and a way of seeing.

Recent exhibitions include The Museum at FIT (New York, NY, 2026), WhiteBox Portable (New York, NY, 2026), House of Lucie – Lucie Foundation (Athens, Greece, 2025), Brâncuși Gallery, Romanian Cultural Institute (New York, NY, 2025), Contemporary Textile Art Biennial (Guimarães, Portugal, 2024), The American University of Paris (Paris, France, 2024), NIKA Project Space (Dubai, UAE, 2023), WhiteBox (New York, NY, 2022), and Museo La Tertulia (Cali, Colombia, 2022). Recent writing on her work includes scholarly essays in the International Journal of Surrealism, where her sculpture also appears on the cover, and in Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (both Fall 2025). Her feature on The Bone as (Bandage) Dress is included in The Museum at FIT’s Art X Fashion audio tour on Bloomberg Connects. Ziamou was a Fulbright / Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow and an artist in residence at the Sigg Foundation and the Museum of Arts and Design. She received her Master’s from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.