Maria Pithara

Maria Pithara was born in Limassol, Cyprus. In 2002, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She completed her studies there and went on to receive an MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Comonwealth University in 2009. While there, she received a Phi Kappa Phi scholarship, a Fellowship from the School of the Arts and a Thesis Award from the Graduate School. She also began incorporating performance and video into her work, which has been shown in various group exhibitions in Cyprus and the eastern U.S.