about the artist

Maro Vandorou is a visual artist of Greek origin who lives and works in California. Her formal training has a strong interdisciplinary character with studies in visual arts, interaction design, literature, digital and computer technologies. Her work explores the process of transformation through installations of original photographic material, writings and artists' books. Tools of choice are vintage film cameras, rare Japanese and Western handmade papers and platinum/palladium printing. Her installation concepts reflect fragility, impermanence and vulnerability.

The setting and visual vocabulary of abstract concepts of her work (grief, surrender, purity of intent, transformation) reference symbols and archetypes from her Hellenic roots. The two completed parts of a trilogy – a focal point of her work during the past several years – have been presented in six solo shows in Europe and the United States.

Maro’s work is in private and public collections across the United States and Europe, including:

Library of Congress
The Getty Research Institute
Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (François Mitterand Library)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Princeton University (Harvey S. Firestone Library, Graphic Arts Collection)
Smith College (William Allan Neilson Library, Rare Books & Special Collections)
Stanford University (Cecil H. Green Library, Special Collections)
University of Washington in Seattle (Suzzalo & Allen Libraries, Special Collections Rare Books)
Yale University (Robert B. Hass Family Arts Library, Special Collections)