Mikaya Petros
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→ Archive Art Magazine December 2020 and January 2021.
→ The ArtGuide 2022 .
→ Sartori Catalogue 2022 .
→ SaatchiArt 2022 . Exibart 2022 .
→ Hamburg Biennale Catalogue 2023 .
→ Shanghai International Art Fair 2024 online.
→ Hamburg Biennale 2024 Catalogue Bergedorfer Museum.
→ Cica’s Museum Art Book 2025
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→ Expo Fiera, Milan
→ Biennale BID, Trieste 2021
→ Michelangelo Expo Prize, Rome
→ Arte Laguna World of the Arsenale Museum
→ Dante Alighieri Palazzo Borghese Prize, Florence, Italy
→ Dante Academy, London 2021
→ Enchanted Garden Exhibition, Belgium
→ The Tower House, UK
→ XI Exposición Internacional, Valencia, Spain
→ Experimental Loop 2023, NYC, USA
→ Shanghai Art Fair 2023
→ 5th Pasa Art Festival, Korea
→ Osten Biennale, Macedonia 2023
→ Big Screen Plaza and Found Work of Art, NYC, USA
→ Art Facts and International Painting Biennale, Hamburg 2022 and 2024
→ Shanghai Art Fair 2025
→ Solo Show "Milandipity", April 2024, Spazio + Milan Design Week
→ Solo Show "Byzantine Rizoma", July 2024, Municipal Art Gallery Maria Iglessi, Mykonos, Greece
→ Colors Exhibition, Cica Museum, April 2025
→ Solo Show "Techno Utopias", Barbagelata Foundation, February 2025
→ Musa International Exhibition, May 2025, London, UK
→ Intercontinental Biennial 2025, Brasília, Brazil, April 2025
→ Enchanted Garden, April 2025, Belgium
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→ Masterful Mind Award by Circle Foundation feb 2025
→ Award of Artistic Merit by Barbagelata Foundation mar 2025
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Mikaya Petros was born in Milan, Italy, class of 1964, daughter of the surrealist painter Petros. She trained in her father’s atelier where she made four- handed photo collages, pictorial and material works. Her encounter in the 1970s with Andy Warhol was incisive. It was in her maternal uncle’s production, post-production and computer graphics house that the artist worked from a young age creating digital and video contributions. “Painting for me is like singing in the shower on a sunny day,” she says. Through digital experimentation, her art investigates the Surrealist matrix, giving rise to conceptual and formal research with a breath that deepens the boundary between Reality, Time and Symbolism. The subjects of her works, realized through a digital photographic language, live in a contemporary dreamlike dimension. In her creative process Virtual Reality and Temporal Spaces are investigated, decomposed and reassembled in a neo-contemporary vision.
Her works are in the Permanent Collections of Sartori Archive in Mantova, Ca' Pesaro Museum in Venice, Como Landscape Museum, Cica Museum in Korea, The Art Center Dover New Hampshire USA, Maritime Museum of Bordeux in France and the Permanent Collection in the Serpone Foundation in Rome, Mykonos and Syros Museums in Greece, Janina Monkute Mark and Moca Museums.
My artistic exploration delves into the core themes of transhumanism, birdhumanism, and technoutopias, embodying a journey that navigates the dance between humanity, technology, and nature. My work aims to weave a dialogue between the past and the future, between the richness of tradition and the promise of innovation.
With transhumanism, I investigate how technology can not only amplify human capacities but also redefine them. Birdhumanism, a poetic fusion of the human and flight, symbolizes our ongoing aspiration for new beginnings and growth opportunities. Technoutopias emerge as bold visions of a future where technology and nature not only coexist but enrich each other, opening the doors to more sustainable and innovative life experiences.
My intent is to inspire deep reflections on the choices we make today and their impact on building a future that not only embraces but celebrates the diversity of life. In this creative space, I encourage viewers to imagine a world where the divide between humanity and technology dissolves, allowing unexplored and dynamic possibilities of interaction to emerge, in a visionary embrace of balance and evolution.
