Martha Sakellariou is a Greek born visual artist currently based in the SF Bay Area, California US.

Her practice is influenced by architecture, dance, oral tradition, literature, social and individual rites, forms of gender representations and roles. Sakellariou’s recent works are multilayered compositions of mostly monochromatic environments made of photography, prints, textiles, video, performance, audio, edible objects and text, often produced in collaboration with professionals from a variety of disciplines.

This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in her educational path, professional roles in art, design and activism and the many places she calls home. She grew up in Athens Greece, studied music at the Athens Conservatoire and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts before moving to London UK where she earned a Master’s degree in print media at the Royal College of Art.

As a result, her work exists at the intersection of visual arts, performance and social practice, facilitating a process and a space for storytelling, interpretations and connectivity. 

Her works are intrinsic to particular spaces and people; focused on women and their homes, identity and domesticity. Martha Sakellariou often invites audience participation rendering these works into ephemeral social experiences. She explores the concept of home as an emotionally complex space that transcends physicality or location. However conceptual or actual, it is a place that exists only in its relation to people, their perceptions and set boundaries.