Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Athens, Greece based in Los Angeles, California. Their work spans video, installation, performance, and sculpture, forming experimental, immersive, interactive, and cinematic environments. Their world-body-building practice centers on themes of softness, deviance, kinship, affect and community building as resistance tools for a queer transfeminist universe. They are Inspired by sci-fi literature, speculative fiction, queer poetry, feminist cinema, creating radically fluffy hubs for unruly presents and hope-punk futures.
Antigoni is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts. They also hold an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and a BFA in Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece. They have received numerous scholarships and awards, including from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the ARTWORKS Fellowship from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Their work has been exhibited at prestigious venues and showcased at festivals such as the Arnolfini Center of Contemporary Arts in Bristol (Solo Show), Honor Fraser Gallery in L.A., REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, WICKED Queer Film Festival, Thessaloniki TIFF, Wrightwood 651, Athens Biennale, Berlin Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale, and the National Opera of Greece, among others. They have collaborated and worked with notable artists such as William Pope.L (document 14), Annie Sprinkle (document 14), Annea Lockwood and La Pocha Nostra.