Exploring memory, home, and identity.
Nicole Economides’s practice examines how belonging, and identity are shaped through migration and diasporic memory. Working with her family’s archive of photographs, she approaches the relational process through which histories are transmitted and reconfigured across generations. Her works centers on the reverse sides of photographs bearing Greek inscriptions addressed to relatives abroad, pairing text and image to explore linguistic translation, mediated intimacy, and the spatial tensions of diaspora. The archive emerges not as a stable record, but as an active site of negotiation. Simultaneously, color functions as a conceptual and affective register, evoking the sensory persistence of the past while repetition and grid structures reflect memory’s recursive role in shaping individual and collective identity.
Nicole Economides (b. 1992, New York, USA) is a visual artist working between Athens, Greece and New York, USA. She holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design, The New School (2019). Economides has presented solo exhibitions including Sunday Afternoon (Callirrhoë, Athens, 2024) and Illusion of Home, as a Memory (Callirrhoë, Athens, 2023), and participated in group shows at MOMus, Athens (2023); Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, and Lincoln Center, New York (2021); and Queens College, CUNY, New York (2020). She has received the Hopper Prize (2024), ARTWORKS Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellowship (2022), and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2018). Her work has been featured in Financial Times, Coveteur, Loophole and Kathimerini.
