Christiana Soulou was born in Athens, issuing from a Greek family in Alexandria, where she spent much of her childhood. She studied at Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Recent solo shows include: Donaueschingen Germany, Hommages aux Mères, Fürstenmberg Zeitgenössisch (2018), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Sonnet to the Nile (2016), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2016), The book of Imaginary Beings after Borges, Sadie Coles HQ , London (2016), Les enfants terribles, Jean Cocteau, Galerie de France, Paris (2015), Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2012), Sadie Coles HQ, London (2011), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2010), Bernier/Eliades, Athens (2010). Group shows: Camden Arts Center, London (2016), Salon du Dessin, Paris (2014), Palais Brogniart - Place de la Bourse, Paris (2014), Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial (2013), The System of Objects, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2013) and Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York (2010). Collaborations include: Dior Cruise Collection (2021).

Christiana Soulou with her work in the past two decades has shown a drawing practice which is defined by its consistency, rigor, depth, and precision, reaching with her line qualities of great subtlety.

Her strength lies in Rosalind Krauss’ definition of “being out of fashion”, as with an obsessional devotion her works appear to be timeless. Soulou’s work occupies the significant place between inspiration and redefinition. Her work presents an “honest drawing”, pure, psychological, therapeutic and most of all magical, that seems to be an antidote in our days, as it leaves the impression that the act of drawing itself can be a kind quest of self-exploration towards a larger more universal goal.