Magda Parasidis is a visual artist and designer from Queens, NY. Born in Athens, Greece, she immigrated to New York City in 1980, settling in a public housing project in Astoria. Parasidis’s text-based art and photography has been exhibited widely, and is held in both private and public collections. The monograph Magda Parasidis: Ghosts in Sunlight was published in 2021 to accompany a solo exhibition at Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio, where she teaches the history of art in protest movements. Her debut photobook and poetry collection, One/Two, is the inaugural title from Holy Harlot Press.
The work of Magda Parasidis is primarily concerned with how the aesthetics of place contains within itself systemic exclusionary practices that keep people on the margins, and opportunities for imagining practices of living otherwise. She asks how the creativity of the marginalized creates utopic spaces and underground networks of mutuality and autonomy. Rooted in photography, her practice also employs collage and language to consider the connections between the personal, the political and the aesthetic, in the feminist perspective. Through urban landscape photography, poetry and, paper assemblage, she seeks new vocabularies and visual spaces to contemplate alternative modes of living.
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Solo Exhibitions
2026: Magda Parasidis, Collages, Serif Creative, Columbus, OH
2020: Magda Parasidis, Ghosts in Sunlight, Otterbein University, Miller Gallery, Columbus, OH
2019: Magda Parasidis, The Table, Columbus, OH
Group Exhibitions
2026: Material Work: Toil & Grace, The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Humanity, CICA Museum, Geonggi-do, Korea
2025: Artist Commune: Being and Belonging, Urban Arts Space, Columbus, OH
Ohio Art League Fall Exhibition, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH
Dislocated, Midwest Nice Gallery, Aberdeen, South Dakota
Drawing Resistance, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Form 2025, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2024: Member Group Show, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023: Member Group Show, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ohio Art League Fall Exhibition, Capital University, Columbus, OH
Blue Hour, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
Roe 2.0, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022: Member Group Show, Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Photo Prize Show, Passetpartout Photo, Rome, Italy
Lens 2022, Perspective Fine Art Photography, Evanston, IL
Biennial, Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
Love, Secret Studio Gallery, Columbus, OH
2021: No Justice, No Peace, James Wise Gallery, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
2021: Ohio Arts Council Biennial Exhibition, Columbus, OH
Ohio Art League Fall Exhibition, Columbus, OH
Every Story Told, All People Arts, Columbus, OH
Letters to the World, (Not) Sheep Gallery, Columbus, OH
Biafarin Awards 2021, Ontario, Canada
We’re Doing It All Wrong, Edward A. Dixon Gallery, Dayton, OH
Art Against Racism: Memorial. Monument. Movement, permanent online exhibit
Wild Art 2021, Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
Akron Art Mail, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2020: Women’s Work, (Not) Sheep Gallery, Columbus, OH
2019: Biennial Juried Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
Innovations in Fiber, South Haven Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI
Fine Arts Exhibition, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH
After the Rain/Reign, (Not) Sheep Gallery, Columbus, OH
Operation Monarch, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, (Not) Sheep Gallery, Columbus, OH
2017: Hike to Hell Gate, Greater Astoria Historical Society, Queens, NY
2006: Group Show, Kris Waldherr Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2004: Chimento, Via della Spiga store, Milan, Italy
2003: Abitare il Tempo, Design Center of Verona, Verona, Italy
2002: Riciclando, IED Moda Lab, Milan, Italy
Awards, Grants and Internships
2025: Ohio Arts Council Artist Opportunities Grant
2024: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Funds for Artists Grant
2023: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Funds for Artists Grant
2022: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artist Grant Recipient
1st Runner-up, Lens 2022, Perspective Fine Art Photography, Evanston, Illinois
2020: Ohio Arts Council, Individual Excellence Award Recipient
2019: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artist In The Community Grant Recipient
2019: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Fine Arts Professional Award Recipient
2018: Greater Columbus Arts Council, Artist In The Community Grant Recipient
2001: Apex Art Curatorial Project, Internship, NY, NY
2000: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Internship, Venice, Italy
1999: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Internship, Baltimore, MD
1998: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art and Communications, Internship, NY, NY
1998: The Walters Art Gallery, Asian Art and Education internship, Baltimore, MD
Publications
2025: One/Two, Artist’s Book, Magda Parasidis
2023: Blue Hour, Intersect Arts Center, exhibition catalog
Women United Art Magazine, Issue IV, Summer 2023
2022: Lens 2022, Perspective Fine Art Photography, exhibition catalog
2021: Magda Parasidis: Ghosts in Sunlight, monograph
Art Seen Magazine, featured artist, Winter 2021
The Book of Arts: Biafarin Awards 2021
2020: Art Habens Art Review, featured artist, March 30, 2020
2019: Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, catalog
Operation Monarch: Addressing Substance Abuse, Recovery and the Role of Art, zine
“Controversial Art Hopes to Spark Meaningful Conversation”, Oliver Boch, The Lantern, Feb 27
Teaching
2023 – present: Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
Adjunct Professor: Art & Art History