Amalia Liakou studied philosophy, psychology and photography in Greece and France. In her postgraduate studies in philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki she specialized in philosophy of art, and attended classes at the Sorbonne. She completed her doctoral thesis in Paris with a scholarship from the Miheli Foundation of Aesthetics. Her thesis topic concerns the Aesthetics of the Surrealist Imaginary and Photography. Among the members of the support committee was the Greek visual artist Lizzie Kalligas. She published and translated texts on art in Paris and Greece. Her work experience is mainly related to education and culture.
As a postgraduate student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she attended photography courses at the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki, as a free listener. In Paris she attended seminars on black and white photography taught by the artist photographer of Iranian origin, Payram. In Greece, she attended classes at the Focus School in Athens. In 2019 she was accepted as a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.
Her meeting with the poet Nanos Valaoritis in 2011 in Athens was decisive for her artistic path, and Valaoritis was the first to write about his photographic work. She has presented her photographic works in two solo exhibitions in Greece, as well as in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Amalia held her first solo exhibition in 2015 in Athens and the second at the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa-G.I. Katsigras Museum in 2018. Her works can be found in public and private collections, as well as in the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - G.I. Katsigras Museum.
As a postgraduate student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she attended photography courses at the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki, as a free listener. In Paris she attended seminars on black and white photography taught by the artist photographer of Iranian origin, Payram. In Greece, she attended classes at the Focus School in Athens. In 2019 she was accepted as a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.
Her meeting with the poet Nanos Valaoritis in 2011 in Athens was decisive for her artistic path, and Valaoritis was the first to write about his photographic work. She has presented her photographic works in two solo exhibitions in Greece, as well as in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Amalia held her first solo exhibition in 2015 in Athens and the second at the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa-G.I. Katsigras Museum in 2018. Her works can be found in public and private collections, as well as in the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - G.I. Katsigras Museum.
