About

Marcella Vlahos (b. 2003, Athens, Greece) is a Greek American artist based in Athens, Georgia. Material exploration and an openness to chance guide her practice. In her oil paintings, color and application invigorate an emotive encounter with the natural world. Her work oscillates between depiction, invention, and allegory. Vlahos uses abstracted patterns of organic matter to create worlds where fear and awe precariously coexist.

Vlahos received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in 2025, where she was awarded the Betty Cabin Memorial Scholarship by nomination and represented the School of Art as a Dodd Ambassador. She studied drawing, Italian art history, and curation abroad at the Florence University of the Arts in 2023. Her work has been shown in galleries and fine arts festivals in the southeastern United States, most recently at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) 2025 Juried Exhibition, Radical Imperfection, curated by Elizabet Elliott; the ATHICA 2024 Juried Exhibition, Compulsions, curated by Erin Dunn; and the 2023 Emergence exhibition at the Bascom Center for the Visual Arts.

In addition to her studio practice, Vlahos helps cultivate the kind of art world she wants to be part of by organizing exhibitions and art-making events. At ATHICA, where she serves as a member of the Board of Directors and on the Exhibitions, Curating, Internship, and Staffing Committees, she has co-curated two exhibitions: DELUGE: Cabinun, Christmas, Johnson, and Walker and Material Archive: Britton and Norry. She has also worked as a student mural painter with Color the World Bright LLC. Publications of her curatorial and artistic work have been featured in The Red & Black, a student-run university newspaper.