Artist: Chryssa Verghi / Χρύσα Βέργη

About the Artist

Born in Athens, Greece. 1978-79 and 1984-88, she studied Painting at the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece. 1980-1983, she studied Interior Design at the Fine Arts School of California State University of Long Beach, USA. 1990-1992, won the French Government Scholarship and the Greek State Scholarship, she continued her post graduate studies in Painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, as “elève invitée”, under professor Pierre Carron.

Her works can be found in the Greek Parliament, the Greek National Gallery, The Prime Minister Building, The Benaki Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in Florina, The Fryssiras Museum, The Kouvoutsakis Pinacotheque, The Moschandreou Pinacotheque, The Piraeus Bank of Greece Collection, The AGET Heraklis Group of Companies Collection, The InterAmerican Collection, and other private museums and collections in Greece and abroad. Her work was selected to represent Greek contemporary art during the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens, Greece. On September 2008, as part of the Environmental Programme of the Goulandris Museum of Natural History, she donated one of her works, which was auctioned and bought by the Greek Parliament.

Inspired by Nature, using a very unique perspective, her work flirts with abstract and representative elements, at the same time. ‘’…Chryssa creates images, which sometimes refer to the traditional landscape and other times are more reminiscent of the lunar landscape of Tapies, while, other times they show a connection with the gestural work of Pollock…” (M. Lambraki-Plaka, Art Historian, Director of the Hellenic National Gallery)

She has taken part in numerous solo and collective exhibitions and International Art Fairs, in Greece, China, USA, Belgium, Ireland, Great Britain, France, Cyprus, Turkey, Korea, Lebanon, Dubai, Bahrain, Republic of Mauritius.