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About Elena Soterakis

Elena Soterakis is an artist exploring themes of environmental degradation and our relationship with technology and nature, through painting, sculpture, and large-scale creative productions. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Matsudo Science and Art Festival in Japan, The Museum of the Art and Design Atlanta, and the San Louise Obispo Museum of Art. Soterakis is a founding member and artist at Beyond Earth, a women-led international transdisciplinary artist collective, exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology. On June 18, 2021, Beyond Earth launched their large-scale art installation Living Light to outerspace and back to earth. Living Light celebrates ocean life and AI technologies. This space flight was made possible in collaboration with Space Perspective, a commercial space-flight company. Soterakis is also the Co-Founder and Director of BioBAT Art Space, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of Science, Art, and Technology. This 18,000 sq ft. exhibition space is located in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, on the ground floor of the biotech incubator BioBAT Inc., which is funded by SUNY Downstate and the Economic Development Corporation of New York. BioBAT Art Space’s mission is to bring innovative Contemporary Art, Science, and Educational programming to Brooklyn that is accessible to all and fosters community. Soterakis received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA in illustration from The School of Visual Arts. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts at Suffolk County Community College and the City University of New York’s Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. Awards include Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship and New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program.

Elena Soterakis is an artist exploring themes of environmental degradation and our relationship with technology and nature, through painting, sculpture, and large-scale creative productions. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Matsudo Science and Art Festival in Japan, The Museum of the Art and Design Atlanta, and the San Louise Obispo Museum of Art.

Soterakis is a founding member and artist at Beyond Earth, a women-led international transdisciplinary artist collective, exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology. On June 18, 2021, Beyond Earth launched their large-scale art installation Living Light to outerspace and back to earth. Living Light celebrates ocean life and AI technologies. This space flight was made possible in collaboration with Space Perspective, a commercial space-flight company.

Soterakis is also the Co-Founder and Director of BioBAT Art Space, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of Science, Art, and Technology. This 18,000 sq ft. exhibition space is located in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, on the ground floor of the biotech incubator BioBAT Inc., which is funded by SUNY Downstate and the Economic Development Corporation of New York. BioBAT Art Space’s mission is to bring innovative Contemporary Art, Science, and Educational programming to Brooklyn that is accessible to all and fosters community.

Soterakis received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA in illustration from The School of Visual Arts. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts at Suffolk County Community College and the City University of New York’s Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. Awards include Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship and New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program.

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Articles with Elena Soterakis

Co-Genesis: New Sea Morphologies

Elena Soterakis is an artist exploring themes of environmental degradation and our relationship with technology and nature, through painting, sculpture, and large-scale creative productions. She is a founding member and artist at Beyond Earth, a women-led international transdisciplinary artist collective, exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology. She is also the Co-Founder and Director of BioBAT Art Space, NYC, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of Science, Art, and Technology.