Ketta Ioannidou (born Nicosia, Cyprus) lives and works in New York. She holds an MFA from School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BA (Honors) from Central Saint Martins of Art and Design, London, UK. Ioannidou represented Cyprus in the Cairo and Alexandria Biennales in Egypt, Rome Biennale for Young Artists and the 18th Asian Biennale in Bangladesh. She has had solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY; Chashama 733 Third Ave, New York, NY; The Yard, Lower East Side, NY; South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY; and The Centre of Contemporary Art Diatopos, Nicosia, Cyprus. Ioannidou has participated in group exhibitions at Rosebud Contemporary, New York, NY; Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles; Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Field of Play, Brooklyn, NY; and Kustera Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Residencies include LMMC (Swing Space), NY; Artists in the Market Place, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; I-Park Residency, East Haddam, CT. Reviews include The New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine and Hyperallergic. Migrating between water, sky and land, Ioannidou's work explores the relationships between movement, migration, nature and memory. Juxtaposing features from her place of origin and her country of residency, she extracts elements from her surrounding natural environment in her work, whether that is the waterfront in Brooklyn near her studio or the Mediterranean island of Cyprus where she grew up and simplifies them down to their essence: the colors, the feelings, the patterns. Florals turn to camouflage, sun rays convert to explosions and ocean waves spread like emotional ripples reflecting an inner state and the nature psychologically inside of us. Through the interplay of abstract forms, vibrant colors, and layered compositions, Ioannidou’s work invites us into a realm of ethereal fluidity and introspection