Ioulia Panoutsopoulos

Adelaide born Ioulia Panoutsopoulos is a multidisciplinary artist working in Sydney. Intersecting photographic, drawing and sculptural practices, Ioulia seeks light, possibility and spatial propositions in dialogue with quantum and material inquiry, perceptual expansion and consciousness.

Ioulia holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from UNSW and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, First Class Honours, from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Recent solo projects include Candle. Collapsar, ANCA Gallery, Canberra; Collapsar, Hazelhurst Arts Centre; and Quanta, Interlude Gallery, Glebe. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and institutions, including at Murray Art Museum Albury, Museum of Art and Culture yapang (Lake Macquarie), Wyndham Art Gallery (Victoria), Home of the Arts (Queensland), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Crux Galerie (Greece), Itami City Museum of Art, History and Culture (Japan), Galerie Kurt im Hirsch (Berlin), Alma on Dobbin (New York), Galéria Z (Slovakia) and 2B Galéria (Hungary) and the National Library of the Argentine Republic (Argenti­­­­na).

A recipient of the John and Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship, awarded by the MAMA Art Foundation (2018), Ioulia has been selected as a finalist for the National Photography Prize (2024 and 2018), the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award (2018), Wyndham Art Prize (2022 and 2016), Paramor Prize: Art and Innovation (2015), Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2017, 2015 and 2007) and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2019). Ioulia is the recipient of the Gallery Barry Keldoulis Award and The Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence (UNSW).

Philanthropic work includes seven years of service on an arts and health board at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW (2017-2024).

Ioulia’s work is held in the collection of Murray Art Museum Albury, O’Sullivan Legal, Sydney and private collections in Australia and Greece.