Aristea Charoniti

My work stems from the need to express observations about my daily interaction with the psyche. I record situations as two-dimensional images, with a multitude of heroes and symbols. Each piece has a narrative that the viewer must actively unlock.

I am drawn to printmaking because it allows for multiples and carries a visual code and specific production processes for the works. These processes include studying the composition repeatedly and continually enriching the final image.

Bio

Aristea Charoniti graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2018 holding an integrated Master’s degree in Printmaking, and one in Painting (2012). She also has graduated from Athens University in 2006 where she studied Theatrology.

In 2010, she participated in MA Performance design & practice at UAL, as an erasmus student. During the academic year 2023-24 she attended Performance I annual seminar class of D. Nikolopoulou at the National Theatre of Greece.

Group shows she has participated were held in galleries and art spaces such as TAF|The Art Foundation, Mets Art Centre, Snehta Residency and ISET in Athens, Greece. In 2020 she realised her first duo exhibition at TAF|The Art Foundation under the title: Backstage Narratives / Luminous Scenarios – depictions by two printmakers, with printmaker Thanos Tsiousis. This exhibition’s catalogue was sponsored by Alpha Bank.

Has also shown her work at Farb Museum in Borken and Festung Rosenberg, Kronach, Germany, at the Municipal galleries of Muensterland, Nafplio, Larissa, Kalamata, Karditsa and Corfu, Greece.

In 2018, she was one of the new greek printmakers who exhibited with Tassos Foundation and in 2019 she completed 10 aus Europa residency by the Bentlage Print Society, Rheine, Germany.

In 2022, she created Dimitris Pikionis Portrait as a commission for The Architectural Review.

And in 2024, the portrait of Alberto Ponis, for the same magazine, again under its “Reputations” section.

In 2013, her woodcut Crisis in Athens was awarded the third prize in “Engraving Athens” contest, by Piraeus Bank.

Artworks of Aristea Charoniti can be found in the art collections of Alpha Bank, Piraeus Bank and in private collections.