Katina Bitsicas

2024 Open Air Media Festival Artist-in-Residence

Katina Bitsicas is a Greek-American new media artist who utilizes video, installation, AR, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. 

Her project "Linseed and Gardens" is an archive-based projection mapping project that illuminates the front of the Close House in Iowa City, IA. Through history and landscape, this project tells the story of the historic Close House.  This includes the past through present day archives it houses and the land the home inhabits by accentuating the features of its exterior through projected window vignettes and colorful landscapes.

Katina received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Baccalaureate from SACI in Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri, where she also conducts research with the MU School of Medicine on utilizing digital storytelling as a meaning-making intervention for bereaved family members. This collaborative research has been published in Death Studies, OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying, and the Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show, PULSE Art Fair, Satellite Art Fair, Superchief Gallery NFT, Plexus Projects, the Wheaton Biennial curated by Legacy Russell, CADAF: Digital Art Month Paris, Torrance Art Museum, Westbeth Gallery, New York, Eye’s Walk Festival, Syros, Greece, 57th Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece, HereArt in New York, Art in Odd Places in Orlando, Digital Graffiti Festival, and the St. Louis International Film Festival. In 2022, her artist book Luci: The Girl with Four Hearts was published with Flower Press. 

Katina’s residency is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.