isual Artist / Fine Art Painter & Author📍 Chania, Crete, Greece | 📱 +30 6976991461 | ✉️ perrakiaglaia@gmail.com🎨 Her artworks are held in museums, private collections, and churches both in Greece and abroad. ARTIST STATEMENTAglaia Perraki–Xenaki grew up in Chania, Crete, where Byzantine traditions, Venetian architecture, and the wild Cretan landscape converge on multiple levels—a process visible in reality and profoundly felt in her creative pursuits. She shaped her expressive direction at the Fine Arts Department of the University of Crete and maintains a deep connection with history, philosophy, and Mediterranean energy, elements that form an integral part of her artistic dimension.Through her work, she creates worlds where the image reveals the invisible dynamics of existence, the fragility and strength of the human soul, as well as our relationship with time, memory, and transformation. Each creation functions as a mirror of the inner world, where small details conceal deep secrets and the visible connects organically with the invisible.Her visual language draws from a deep symbolic reservoir that includes classical mythology, spiritual geometry, and archetypal human experience. Although rendered with almost devotional precision, reminiscent of both Byzantine iconography and the clarity of the Renaissance, her forms, landscapes, and compositional elements explore complex emotional and philosophical states. Her art invites the viewer into a transformative experience, where the personal and the universal coexist in disarming harmony. INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS2025: Chianciano Art Museum Award – Selected from the London Art Biennale to participate in the international Biennale Chianciano in Tuscany, Italy. 2025: Certificate of High Artistic Quality – The Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg Pinacotheca. 2025: Honorary Invitation as an official guest – World Culture Festival (WCF 2025), Karachi. 2024: International Selection – Shortlisted among 900 portraits for the RBSA Gallery Portrait Prize 2024, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham.2024 / 2022: Honorary Distinction – Awarded by the Association of Cretan Scientists & the Association of Friends of Classical Music and Opera (alongside internationally distinguished scientists and artists of Crete). 2023: Certificate of Recognition of High Artistic Quality – The Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg Pinacotheca (in conjunction with participation in the International Art Prize Luxembourg 2022). 2022: 1st Public Prize – International Biennale of Portrait (INTERBIFER), Tuzla. EDUCATION & SPECIALIZATION1998: Studies in the Optional Degree Programs (PSE) – Department of Fine Arts, Technical University of Crete.1993: Coursework in Byzantine Iconography – Holy Monastery of Chrysopigi, Chania (focusing on Byzantine Art and Fayum portraits)