MARTHA SAKELLARIOU

“The domestic sphere is a site of radical inquiry. The home and its inventory conceal a psychological battlefield.”

BIO

Martha Sakellariou is a Greek-born visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Working in large-scale installation, public projects, and performance collaborations, she maps the power dynamics, frictions, and poetics embedded in objects, rituals, and the invisible labor of the everyday.

Building on a professional history in design, environmental activism and visual arts across Athens and London, Martha initiates residency projects and site-specific interventions to reframe the domestic sphere as a site of radical inquiry. Since 2014, her interdisciplinary practice has focused on the emotional architecture of home—utilizing print, textiles, garments, found objects, and social practice to extend and reimagine the boundaries between public and private space. In 2017, she founded Plat Du Jour Projects as a collaborative platform for site-specific, social, ephemeral, table-centered experiments.

Martha Sakellariou holds an MA in printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London, and an MFA in painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts. She has exhibited at the ICA San José, the Palo Alto Art Center, the de Young Museum, MOMUS, and curated projects internationally, with work held in private and public collections across Greece, the UK, and the United States.

She is currently a resident artist at the Cubberley Artist Studio Program.