Natalia Afentoulidou

Curriculum Vitae / 2026

Natalia Afentoulidou

An artist of rooms, drawings and the delicate architecture between them.

Lives / works: Athens, Greece
Email: nafentoulidou@gmail.com
Website: nataliaafentoulidou.com

Working between ink on paper and large-scale installation, Natalia builds dense visual ecosystems in which bodies, shelters and other living things become entangled. Her forms repeat, mutate and accumulate — never quite settling into a single body, room or story. Discarded materials and photocopies carry the marks of use, reuse and refusal.

Detail of Forever young, an ink and pencil drawing of dark dotted forms tangled around pale looping limbs. — Forever young (detail), 2026 Ink and pencil on paper

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Selected Shows

17 entries / 2005—2018

2018

Be Still Life

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2017

Brave New Work

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2015

Strings and Rails Anyway Solo

Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

2015

Pretty.Much,Nothing. Solo

Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA

2012

For What It’s Worth Solo

Commonwealth Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

2012

Fresh Impressions

Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA

2012

MFA Thesis Exhibition

808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

2011

Boston Young Contemporaries

808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

2011

Boston University Tribal

Hamill Gallery of Tribal Art, Boston, MA

2010

150.000 Circles in One Solo

Cultural Center of Kifissia, Greece

2010

Small Works Juried Exhibition

Lincoln Art Project, Waltham, MA

2010

Cafe-texnes Exhibition

Gazi Gallery, Athens, Greece

2009

New Artists

Art Tower Gallery, Athens, Greece

2009

Hearts in Athens ’08

Open Air Exhibition, Athens, Greece

2006

4th Biennale of Students

Hellenic College of Art, Crete, Greece

2005

Every Day… Day Against AIDS

Subway Area, Athens, Greece

2005

Poetry on Pictures

Institute of France, Athens, Greece

Education

2010–12 MFA, Boston University, USA

2007–08 Erasmus Exchange Program, University of Barcelona, Spain

2003–08 BFA, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

Teaching

2015 Visiting Artist, University of Massachusetts

2013–14 Visiting Artist, Boston University

2011–12 Teaching Assistant, Boston University

Residencies

2014 MacDowell Colony Artist Residency Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

2014 Yaddo Artist Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY

2013 Yaddo Artist Residency Fellowship, Saratoga Springs, NY

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Awards & Grants

10 entries / 2008—2012

2012 Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Award

2012 Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship

2012 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Program nominee

2011 CFA Visual Arts Scholarship, Boston University

2011 Dean’s Scholar Award, Boston University

2011 Dedalus Foundation’s MFA Fellowship nominee

2011 Eleni Gatzogiannis Scholarship

2011 Boston University Women’s Council Scholarship

2010 Constantin Alajalov Scholarship, Boston University

2008 Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY, Erasmus, E.U.)

Illustrations

2012 Drawings, Elegies for Michael Gizzi, William Corbett

2003–06 “What Men Live By”, Leo Tolstoy, Maistros Publications

2003–06 “Ruth”, Elizabeth Gaskell, Maistros Publications

2003–06 “Three Hermits”, Leo Tolstoy, Maistros Publications

Press

2015 “Elsewhere: Natalia Afentoulidou” — Big Red & Shiny ↗

2012 “Three CFA Grads Win $10K” — BU Today ↗

2012 “6 Art School Grads to Watch” — The Boston Globe ↗

Detail of Ultimate form of activism, a black-and-white ink drawing of a dotted sphere and a patterned disc in a tangle of pale forms. — Ultimate form of activism (detail), 2026 Ink and pencil on paper

Selected Projects Three bodies of work

Project 01

Life comes in circles

Works on paper / 2026

Project 02

Your Roof, My Hut

Installation / mixed media

Project 03

Burn Wisdom Burn

Installation / mixed media