Chryssa

Chryssa (b. 1933) was a Greek-American artist who made pioneering work in New York from the 1950s onward. Using different media such as drawings, lights, optics, and found objects, Chryssa re-defined the viewer’s relationship with space and time. As a woman artist Chryssa challenged the patriarchal culture of that time, by embracing the more complicated emotions that arise within the vocabulary of freedom. She died in 2013.

Artist track record

2024 Wrightwood 659, Chicago
2023 Menil Collection, Houston
2023 Dia Chelsea, NY
2022 Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
2017 Documenta XVI, Kassel

Awards

Collections (selection):
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Whitney Museum of American Art
Menil Collection, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Tate Gallery, London

Education

1953-1954, Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris

Gallery

Blue Velvet Projects