Sylvana Samartzidou was born in Pella Prefecture of Macedonia, northern Greece and was raised in Thessaloniki and Athens.

Graduate of the School of Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she attended the fourth painting studio, taught by professors Yiannis Valavanidis and Mihalis Manousakis. She also studied photography there with Manolis Mpampousis as her teacher.

She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.

Works by Sylvana Samartzidou are to be found in public and private collections, town halls, churches, galleries and museums in Greece and abroad.

She has presented her works in personal and group exhibitions.

She currently lives and works in Athens.

Exhibitions

Personal

November 2011 Germany, Town Hall of Mainz
November 2007 Ilioupoli – Athens, Ethniki Antistasi Museum
May 2006 Livadia Neromilos Krias
November 2005 Pireas, International Action Art
May 2005 Wiesbaden / Biebrich, Germany, Saint George’s Chapelry
December 2004, Town Hall of Arahova

Group

Summer 2015 Myconos, Imar Gallery
November 2012 St. Piraeus, Municipal Neoclassical Building of Kantharou St.
March 2010 Athens, Exhibition aera of A.S.F.A. “Nikos Kessanlis”
December 2006 Athens, Stoa tou Vivliou
August 2006, Demotic Gallery of Pireas
January 2006, Town Hall of Ilioupolis
December 2003, Maliotis Cultural Center