Marianne Strapatsakis was born in Athens. Her first degree was from the Athens College of Technology in Interior Architecture.She continued her studies in Paris, with a five-yearGrand from the Academy of Athens, at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, at the Ecole du Louvre, and at theUniversity of Paris I, Sorbonne.In 1984, she became involved with the Video Art movement, of which she is one of its leading exponents in Greece.From 2004 to 2014, she was founded member, Associate Professor, and President of the Department of Audiovisual Arts, Ionian University.In 2005 she was appointed as visiting professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She has realised 42 individual exhibitions in Greece, France,England,Germany, Italy, Turkey, Chile,Egypt, and she has participated in 66 group exhibitions in Greece, France, Germany, Holland, Spain,England, USA.She participated in numerous Conferences and Seminars of Art.Her work is presented to all the Dictionary of Art,in 160 articles at Newspapers and Journals, at T.V. and Radio emissions, as at Festivals in Greece and Abroad. Works of her art are located in Greece: at the Ministry of Culture, at the National Gallery, at the Nationale Museum of Contempory Art, at the Museum of Modern Art of Elizas and VasilisGoulandris, at the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, at the Center of Modern Art of Rethymno, at the Macedonean Museum of ModernArt, at the Museum of Byzantium Culture of Thessaloniki, at the Gallery of Syros, at the collection of Harry Antoniou, at the collection of Perikli Sahini, at the collection K.Fix in Austria, at the collection of T. Karavia in New York and at others collections in Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA.
