AnnaMaria Pinaka (1983, Thessaloniki, GR) is an artist, researcher and educator based in between Greece and the Netherlands. By using video, drawing, painting, performance and writing, she aesthetically explores the low tech, the unpolished and the excessively child-like, in order to question canonical visual representations. She is intrinsically interested in pop icons and legends, characters from myths and fairy-tales, and those related to values that underline the relationship between art and humanity. As such, through her works, she longs to develop a visual language that points beyond the ‘proper’, ‘clean’, rationally articulated and institutional syntaxis. Her current research is a continuation of her practice-based PhD Porno-graphing: ‘dirty’ sexual subjectivities and self-objectification in lens-based art (2017) from Roehampton University, where she examines the methodological use of ‘dirty’ and non-sovereign sexual and artistic subjectivities in the production of images.

Her work has been exhibited at or presented in group shows and public programs such as: the Athens Biennale ANTI (2018), The Project Gallery (Gender Melancholia, group show, 2021), WETFILM collective (online, 2021), and Mimosa House (Zoe Williams: Sunday Fantasy, 2019), amongst others.

Her first solo show stay with me, I’ll give you jewls, was curated by Ioanna Gerakidi at opbo studio, in Pireaus, Athens (2023). 

In 2025, her solo show She Keeps Them Warm With Her Skirt was presented at ROZENSTRAAT a rose is a rose is a rose, in Amsterdam, curated by Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Madelon van Schie. 

Writings of hers have been included in international academic and artistic magazines and platforms such as I Confess!: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age, McGill Queen`s University Press, Montreal; 2019, Kathy Acker, 1971-1974, 2019, Éditions Ismael, Lyon; Social Movement: Through the Lens of Performance and Performativity, 2021, If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam; Flowers Grow in Graveyards Too, 2022, Sunday Mornings by the River, Eindhoven. She is member of the editorial board of the Stedelijk Studies Journal, and in 2023 she co-edited the issue on Museum-ing: Research in Practice (2023), together with Prof Kitty Zijlmans. Her monograph Porno-graphing: What do ‘dirty’ sexual subjectivities do to art? 2017, was published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven. 

contact: annamaria.pinaka@gmail.com