Geórgia Kyriakakis, Ilhéus, 1961, is graduated in Arts program at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado/FAAP (1986), Master and PhD in Arts from the Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo/ECA-USP (2001 e 2006 respectively).

She develops didactic activities since 1990, by holding workshops, courses and lectures at private and public cultural and educational institutions. From 1990 to 1996 she also worked with art-education programs for underprivileged children at social projects, like the Enturmando (Fitting in) Project of the Child and Youth Department and at the A Hebraica’s Arts Workshop. In 1997, she joined university teaching and since then she works at the FAAP/Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and, since 2003, at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes, where she also teaches in the postgraduate program.

As an artist, Geórgia shows her work since 1986 and her first solo exhibition was in 1991 at the Itaugaleria, in São Paulo. Thenceforward she has participated regularly on group and individual shows, in Brazil and abroad, and has received several awards and distinguished mentions as recognition of her artistic work.

Among the awards stand out: Salão Nacional, (1991); Brazilian Project, European Ceramic Work Centre, Holanda (1995); O Artista Pesquisador, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Niterói (2001) e a Bolsa Vitae de Artes (2002) and among the shows is noteworthy: Espelhos e Sombras (MAM/SP e CCBB/RJ/1994); Beelden Uit Brasilie (Stedelijk Museum/Schiedam/1996) e De Huit Van Witte Dame (Eindhoven/1995) ambas na Holanda; XVIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (1996); Arte-cidade III (São Paulo/1997); Caminhos do Contemporâneo (Paço Imperial/RJ/2002); São Paulo-450 anos-Paris (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo/2004); Parangolé-90 Fragmentos (Museu Pateo Herreriano, Espanha/2009); Paralela 2010 (Liceu de Artes e Ofícios/São Paulo/2010), entre outras.

Since 2001, the artist is represented by the Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, in São Paulo, where she also lives and works.