Vicky Pericleous is a visual artist and assistant professor at Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Fine Arts. She has studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art, London, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Pericleous’ work investigates her interest in examining and producing images where environments, gestures and encounters oscillate between the familiar and the alien, the ruin and the model, and notions of the near and far, in respect to post and neo-colonial situations and geographical and cultural imaginaries. The idea of the fragment as well as spatiotemporal proximities and speculations are negotiated throughout her artistic oeuvre.

Her work has shown in exhibitions at various international venues including Espace Commines, Paris, Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery of the National College of Arts, Lahore, Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London as well as in various private galleries abroad. She has also exhibited in Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol, and NiMAC –Municipal Art Centre, Omikron Gallery, Art Seen, Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, amongst others, all in Nicosia. Pericleous exhibited in Monodrome, the 3rd Athens Biennale, and at Sanat Limani, as part of the European Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010. She has initiated and participated in the international visual-research project “Uncovered: Nicosia International Airport,” 2010-13. She has been an active member of the Noise of Coincidence Art Group, (2001-2007), an international art group / platform that has organised several exhibitions, actions, happenings and talks in Cyprus and abroad. Over the years, she has collaborated with and has been represented by Omikron Gallery, Nicosia (2010–2013) and Art Seen Gallery, Nicosia (2015–now).

Pericleous has served in the Academia from 2001 from various positions, including her current position at CUT, as well as from the position of assistant professor and lecturer at Frederick University, Department of Arts and Communication -Former Department of Fine and Applied Arts-, (2008-2022), as a visiting lecturer at Frederick Institute of Technology, Department of Fine and Applied Arts (2003-2008, adjunct lecturer), and adjunct lecturer (2001), at Intercollege, Nicosia, Department of Fine and Applied Arts.

Her work has been published and presented in many acclaimed books, art catalogues and press, including book publications by the Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University in collaboration with the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022 and The University of Columbia Press, Sept. 2019. Her work has been featured and presented in international Art & Theory Magazines. Amongst them the research platform Perambuation, 2022, Daily Lazy International, 2020, Art Daily Newspaper International, 2020 and Art Forum, Critic’s Picks Column, 2018.

She has presented her work in many conferences, seminars, lectures and talks both locally and internationally. Pericleous has contributed in the development of many Art Research Funded Programmes. Currently she is co-coordinating the Artistic and Creative Expression, (package 3) of the Creative Europe Programme: EMPACT (Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain), coordinated by the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT).