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Despina Stokou
Greek artist
Despina Stokou (born 1978 in Athens, Greece) is a contemporary artist, writer and curator based in Los Angeles, California.
Despina stokou biography books
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 1998 from the Technical Institute for Marketing and Publicity in Athens and then graduating from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2002, 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 2005, she received a Master of Arts there and remained in Berlin for the subseq