"Press & Features"

As an internationally recognized visual artist, writer, and curator, my work has been featured in esteemed publications, global exhibitions, and digital platforms. This curated archive reflects the thematic depth and creative evolution of my artistic journey—one rooted in mythology, transformation, and visual storytelling.

From international art magazines and curated showcases to critical essays and award-winning exhibitions, each feature highlights my continued engagement with narrative, symbolism, and artistic innovation within the contemporary art discourse.

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Annita Apostolidou Platis

Press & Features by Annita Apostolidou Platis

Gallery Ring – Crystal Artist of December 2025

Format: International Artist Award & Online Showcase
Location: Ontario, Canada
Organizer / Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: December 2025
Award: CRYSTAL ARTIST OF THE MONTH
Awarded Artwork: Between Yes and No
Series: When Color Knows the Script

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I am deeply honored to be named Crystal Artist of December 2025 by Gallery Ring — a distinction recognizing artworks of remarkable conceptual clarity, emotional depth, and refined visual impact.

About the Artwork — Between Yes and No

Between Yes and No examines the suspended moment before a decision is made. The fragile threshold where certainty dissolves and possibility begins. Doors, symbols, and shifting chromatic fields emphasize that the true conflict lives in the pause: between inhale and exhale, thought and voice, acceptance and refusal. The composition reflects an interior theatre of the mind, where silence becomes language and hesitation becomes architecture. Color reveals emotion; emotion reveals truth. In this suspended space, identity emerges not from choice itself, but from the courage to stand in uncertainty. This artwork is part of the series When Color Knows the Script, where each portrait and object-world explores how color directs narrative, how symbolism carries emotional weight, and how the unseen becomes visible.

Gallery Ring – Crystal Award – COLOUR International Juried Art Exhibition December 2025

Format: Online International Juried Art Contest
Location: Ontario, Canada
Organizer / Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: December 2025
Award: CRYSTAL AWARD
Awarded Artwork: The Sweetness of Control
Series: When Color Knows the Script

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I am honored to receive the Crystal Award in Gallery Ring’s COLOUR International Juried Exhibition, a distinction granted to artworks whose chromatic sensitivity, compositional strength, and conceptual resonance stand out within the international selection.

About the Artwork — The Sweetness of Control

The Sweetness of Control explores how elegance becomes intention and ritual becomes quiet authority.
An embroidered umbrella adorned with porcelain teacups, teapots, and golden spoons transforms the figure into an architect of balance — a presence defined not by sweetness, but by precision and poised restraint.
Through vintage reds, warm golds, and porcelain blues, the work reflects a domestic theatre where gentleness masks power and beauty frames discipline.

This recognition highlights the symbolic and aesthetic strength of When Color Knows the Script, affirming the series’ growing presence in international contemporary art exhibitions.

Certificate of Artistic Achievement – Luxembourg Art Prize 2025

Format: Official Museum Certificate · International Artistic Distinction
Location: La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg
Organizer: Luxembourg Art Prize · Museum Jury Selection Committee
Date: December 2025
Artworks Featured: What Falls in Velvet Silence, Between Yes and No, Perception Unspoken from When Color Knows the Script; The Light Dwells in Shadows, She Who Glows in the Dark, The Oracle of Opaline Brass, Clarity in Disguise from The Luminous Abyss.

About the Artworks:
The works explore duality, psychological depth, and symbolic storytelling. When Color Knows the Script focuses on the emotional language of color and silence as a form of resilience, while The Luminous Abyss examines how light both reveals and conceals, inviting reflection on identity, memory, and inner transformation.

About the Project:
The Certificate of Artistic Achievement is an official distinction granted by La Pinacothèque of Luxembourg to artists whose work demonstrates exceptional artistic quality and conceptual innovation. Awarded within the framework of the Luxembourg Art Prize, it is granted to only a small number of artists among hundreds of international participants. This honor acknowledges the evolution and depth of my artistic practice and the creative direction of my recent work.

Gallery Ring – Ruby Award – November 2025

Format: Online International Juried Art Contest
Location: Ontario, Canada
Organizer / Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: November 2025
Award: RUBY Award
Awarded Artwork: The Ornament of Dawn
Series: Rugs & Reverence

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I am deeply honored to receive the Ruby Award in Gallery Ring’s ANIMAL International Juried Contest — a distinction granted to artworks that demonstrate exceptional originality, composition, and emotional resonance.

About the Artwork — The Ornament of Dawn

Crimson and gold awaken on the horse’s face like morning fire over desert sand.
Floral arabesques intertwine with pearls of light, transforming the horse into a living emblem of prayer and endurance. Here, daylight and legacy ride together — an ode to the first light of reverence.

Red and gold unfold like a liturgy: a sacred fire rising through pattern and breath.
The floral motifs echo the continuity of culture, while each pearl of light suggests the endurance of spirit.

In this work, the horse becomes more than subject — it becomes a vessel of transcendence, where endurance, ritual, and beauty coexist in luminous tension.

Sfumato – Summer Group Exhibition & Catalogue 2025

Radiant Horizons: Summer Group Exhibition 2025

Format: International Virtual Exhibition & Art Catalogue
Location: Online – International
Organizer: Sfumato Art Creatives
Date: October 22, 2025

Artwork Featured:

  • Nocturnal Parade (from The Luminous Abyss series)

About the Project:
Selected from an open call of international submissions, my artwork Nocturnal Parade was chosen to be part of Sfumato’s Summer Group Exhibition 2025. Presented across three immersive digital halls, the exhibition showcases a diverse collection of contemporary voices, accompanied by the release of the official exhibition catalogue.

Details:
🔹 Virtual Exhibition Launch: October 22, 2025
🔹 Catalogue Release: October 22, 2025
🔹 Radiant Horizons: Summer Group Exhibition 2025

CATS! – International Art Exhibition & Exclusive Publication Edition

Format: International Exhibition & Artbook Publication
Location: Global
Organizer: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Published on: Print (limited edition) and Digital (Heyzine Flipbook)
Date: September 2025
Feature: Four Graphite Drawings (She Who Sees Beyond, The Oracle of Unwritten Time, The Scribe of Forgotten Kingdoms, The Watcher of Every Stroke) + Essay (Of Thread and Shadow: The Cat as Guardian and Muse)
🔹 Virtual Exhibition: Launches September 20, 2025 CATS - Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
🔹 Artbook Release: September 30, 2025

🔹Order the Limited Edition Book: CATS - Luxury Print Edition

This special publication includes both my artworks and essay created exclusively for CATS! — a project celebrating the cat as timeless muse, guardian, and oracle.

 

Camelback Gallery – 1st Place Award, Best in Medium 2025
Format: Online Gallery Feature – International Juried Contest
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Publisher: Camelback Gallery
Date: September 2025
Award: 1st Place – Digital Paintings / Digital Art Category
Awarded Artwork: Clarity in Disguise
Series: The Luminous Abyss

Clarity in Disguise, a symbolic digital collage exploring perception, illusion, and visual riddles, was awarded 1st Place in the Best in Medium 2025 international competition hosted by Camelback Gallery. The work is part of the artist’s ongoing series The Luminous Abyss, and was selected for its conceptual depth, compositional strength, and technical execution.

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Art Magazine – Issue 5, Summer 2025

Format: International Print & Digital Publication
Location: Global
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Published on: Print (Peecho) and Digital (Heyzine Flipbook)
Date: August 30, 2025
Feature: Four Exclusive Summer Artworks (Silent Observer, Voyager, Insider, Summerverse)
🔹 Print copy: Art Magazine Issue 5 – Print
🔹 Read the digital issue online: Art Magazine Issue 5 – Flipbook

This Summer edition features my exclusive works exploring the duality of summer — its radiant light and its hidden undercurrents. Through surreal maritime symbolism and mythic figures, the series reflects on beauty amidst fragility and transformation.

 

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Gallery Ring – Ruby Award – August 2025

Format: Online International Juried Art Contest
Location: Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: August 2025
Award: RUBY Award
Awarded Artwork: The Curtain Knows
Series: The Luminous Abyss

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🎥 Watch the Winners Video on YouTube

I am deeply honored to have received the Ruby Award in Gallery Ring’s International Juried Contest RED. This recognition celebrates the originality, composition, and evocative power of my work The Curtain Knows.

Beneath the striped grandeur of a circus-tent crown, The Curtain Knows unveils a silent performance where light reveals as much as it conceals. The central figure—balanced between innocence and revelation—is both ringmaster and secret-keeper, guarding emotions that share the same painted smile. Lamps and parasols stand like quiet witnesses, their glow playing deliberate tricks, uncovering fleeting truths behind the façade.

This is no spectacle of noise, but of introspection, where identity becomes a dreamlike theatre and the curtain remembers everything we try to hide. Part of my series The Luminous Abyss, the work explores the emotional tension between light and darkness, between what we reveal and what we keep in shadow. Lighting forms—chandeliers, lampshades, glowing bulbs—serve as portals into the soul’s hidden architecture, bridging retro opulence with timeless human vulnerability.

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Gallery Ring – Artist of the Month – August 2025
Format: Online International Juried Art Contest
Location: Ontario, Canada
Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: August 2025
Award: RUBY Artist of the Month
Awarded Artwork: The Oracle of Opaline Brass
Series: The Luminous Abyss

🔗 See the Show
🎥 Watch the Winners Video on YouTube

I am truly honored to have received the Ruby distinction in Gallery Ring’s International Juried Contest, recognizing excellence in originality, composition, and emotional impact.

The Oracle of Opaline Brass explores the intersection of symbolism, emotional depth, and luminous form. Through layered digital collage, I evoke the subtle tension between light and shadow — both physical and psychological. This mythic feminine figure becomes a vessel of vision and memory. Architectural motifs, ceremonial adornments, and golden elements reflect my fascination with ornamentation as a language of presence. This piece is a meditation on stillness as perception and beauty as resilience. I create to illuminate personal archetypes that feel at once intimate and eternal.

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Voices of Creativity – Interview Feature #20, July 2025
Format: Curated Online Artist Interview
Location: New York (Digital)
Publisher: Sfumato Art Creatives
Published on: SfumatoArtCreatives.com – Voices of Creativity
Date: July 2025
Feature: Full-length Interview with Annita Apostolidou Platis
🔹 Read the Interview: Voices of Creativity #20 – Sfumato Art Creatives

This thoughtfully curated interview delves into my visual language, core inspirations, and the layered emotional narratives that shape my art. Through a series of perceptive and poetic questions, the Sfumato editorial team cultivates a deeply personal dialogue—one that reflects on the symbolic resonance of mythology, memory, and feminine identity in my creative practice.

The feature also highlights recent international awards, solo exhibitions, and evolving milestones in my artistic journey. I’m truly honored by the insight, attention, and care that shaped this feature—it remains one of the most meaningful and introspective interviews I’ve had the joy of sharing.

Light Space & Time – Summer Art Exhibition 2025

Format: Online International Juried Exhibition
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (Online)
Publisher: Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
Date: July 2025
Award: 6ᵗʰ Place – Photography & Digital Artists Category
🔗 See the Exhibition: Light Space & Time – Summer Art Exhibition 2025

In this open-themed international exhibition, my digital artwork received 6ᵗʰ Place in the Top 20 Photography & Digital Artists category, selected from 822 entries representing 25 countries and 31 U.S. states. The exhibition celebrates excellence in abstract and representational art across 2D and 3D media.

This recognition highlights the creative impact and narrative strength of my work, which continues to explore visual poetics, symbolism, and the emotional resonance of form. Featured on the gallery’s homepage through September 5, 2025, the exhibition marks a meaningful milestone in my evolving artistic journey.

 

 

 

Gallery Ring – BLUE June 2025 Winners Video

Format: Official Video Feature
Location: Ontario, Canada (Online)
Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: May 2025
Award: Golden Trio Award for Aokage, Aiyume, and Kansō – From a New Series Exploring the Emotional Language of Blue
🔗 See the Show: Gallery Ring | BLUE May 2025 Exhibition
🎥 Watch the Winners Video: Gallery Ring YouTube – BLUE May 2025

This official video feature showcases the awarded artists of Gallery Ring’s BLUE May 2025 International Juried Exhibition. I am truly honored to have received the Golden Trio Award—a rare distinction granted only when three artworks in a single submission are equally distinguished in vision, skill, and creative originality.

The awarded works—Aokage, Aiyume, and Kansō—are part of a new series that explores the emotional spectrum of blue—not merely as a color, but as a symbolic space of memory, stillness, introspection, and truth. Through layered digital collage and subtle surrealist elements, each piece delves into a different facet of feminine presence and internal perception.

This recognition marks a meaningful milestone in my ongoing artistic journey and my commitment to emotional storytelling through symbolic form and visual poetics.

 

Camelback Gallery – Artist of the Month (May 2025)

Format: Online Gallery Feature
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Publisher: Camelback Gallery
Date: May 2025
Award: Artist of the Month – May 2025

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Recognized for the digital collage “The Light Dwells in Shadows”, this monthly feature honors international artists for exceptional visual storytelling and creative execution. The selected work is a symbolic meditation on identity, resilience, and the quiet strength of inner light—blending digital collage with vintage aesthetics and introspective depth.

 

Sfumato Art Creatives – Legends: The Code | Solo Exhibition Feature

Format: Curated Digital Solo Exhibition & Full-Page Artist Profile
Location: New York (Online)
Publisher: Sfumato Art Creatives
Date: May 2025
Exhibition: Legends – The Code
🔗 View the Exhibition – Sfumato Art Creatives

Presented by Sfumato Art Creatives, this curated solo exhibition explores the intersection of mythology, feminine archetypes, and temporal symbolism through digital collage and mixed media painting. The featured works portray mythic figures—goddess-like yet fractured, regal yet vulnerable—who inhabit the liminal space between ancient memory and imagined futures.

The exhibition includes a full-page digital feature and visual showcase, highlighting key works from the Legends – The Code series. Each piece is staged against a black canvas void, where light, sacred geometry, and couture-inspired detail evoke transformation, resilience, and spiritual awakening.

This immersive presentation affirms the evolving dialogue between myth, identity, and artistic innovation in contemporary visual storytelling.

 

Gallery Ring – PEOPLE May 2025 Winners Video

Format: Official Video Feature
Location: Ontario, Canada (Online)
Publisher: Gallery Ring
Date: May 2025
Award: Golden Trio Award for Clockwork Couturiere, The Elemental Forger, and The Quantum Alchemist from The Era Clockmakers series
🔗 Watch the official Winners Video – Gallery Ring | PEOPLE May 2025

This official video feature presents the award recipients of Gallery Ring’s May 2025 PEOPLE International Juried Exhibition. I am deeply honored to be featured as a Golden Trio Award recipient—an exceptional and rare recognition, granted only 18 times globally. The award is reserved for submissions where all three artworks are equally distinguished in originality, creative vision, and technical excellence.

The video highlights my works Clockwork Couturiere, The Elemental Forger, and The Quantum Alchemist, all from The Era Clockmakers series—a visual exploration of myth, identity, and time alchemy.

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FLOWER POWER 2025 Art Awards

Format: Online – International Art Awards
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Dates: May 2025
Publisher: Camelback Gallery
Award: Silver Award for Bloomora from The Seasons – Special Edition collection

Bloomora, a celebration of nature’s transformative energy and lyrical vitality, received the Silver Award in the prestigious FLOWER POWER 2025 international competition hosted by Camelback Gallery.

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Art Magazine – Issue 4, Spring 2025

Format: International Print & Digital Publication
Location: Global
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Published on: Print (Peecho) and Digital (Heyzine Flipbook)
Date: May 2025
Feature: Opening Essay + Four Artworks from The Seasons – Special Edition Collection (Spring)
🔹 Print copy: Art Magazine Issue 4 – Print
🔹 Read the digital issue online: Art Magazine Issue 4 – Flipbook

🔹 Read the Opening Essay: My Blog

This edition opens with my four-page curatorial essay, “Whispers of Spring: The Poetry of Renewal and Transformation,” a lyrical reflection on nature’s rebirth and the creative cycle. Accompanying the essay are four artworks from my Seasons – Special Edition (Spring collection): The Blooming Soul, Allure, Dawn, and Heirloom—each visually echoing themes of transformation, memory, and inner awakening. This dual feature marks a meaningful moment in my creative journey as both artist and essayist.

 

 

 

The Alchemical Art Magazine – Issue I
Format: International Digital Publication
Location: Global
Publisher: The Alchemical Art
Published on: Issuu
Date: April 2025
Feature: Artist Interview + Artworks "Blaze," "Message," and "Regalia" from The Seasons – Special Edition Collection
🔗 Explore the Magazine
This issue includes my in-depth artist interview and artworks from the EROS exhibition. My art piece was also showcased on a large digital billboard at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, marking a powerful moment of public visibility.

 

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Masterful Minds Magazine – Artists to Watch in 2025
Format: International Digital Publication
Location: Global
Publisher: Circle Foundation for the Arts & World Wide Art
Published on: Issuu
Date: March 2025
Feature: "Juno" from the Links Collection

🔹 Read the digital issue online:Masterful Minds Magazine Vol.7
Featured among 87 artists from 33 countries, this edition highlights my mythological reinterpretation of Juno through digital artistry and symbolism.

 

 

 

Art Poetry Book, Issue I – Fall 2024
Format: Print (Peecho) and Digital (Heyzine Flipbooks)
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Date: October 2024
Feature: Four artworks and poetry from "Legends – The Code" Collection

🔹 Print copy: Art Poetry Book Issue I – Print

🔹 Read the digital issue online: Art Poetry Book Issue I – Flipbook
This book includes both my visual and literary contributions, exploring mythological narratives through mixed media digital collage and poetic symbolism.

 

 

 

Art Magazine, Issue II – Summer 2024
Format: Print (Peecho) and Digital (Heyzine Flipbooks)
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Date: August 2024
Feature: Artworks from "Legends – The Code" and "Links" Collections

🔹 Print copy: Art Magazine Issue II – Print

🔹 Read the digital issue online: Art Magazine Issue II – Flipbook

An international feature celebrating contemporary digital and mixed media artists blending historical themes with modern innovation.

 

 

 

BCAF – Spring International Art Exhibition | PRIMAVERA
Format: Official Exhibition Essay
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Date: June 2024
🔗 Read the Article
My curatorial essay explores the vibrant symbolism of spring, highlighting rebirth and creative flourishing. Also included is one of my featured artworks in the group exhibition.

 

 

 

The Legacy of Myth in Art: A Historical Reflection Through 'Legends – The Code'
Format: Official Digital Essay
Publisher: Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation
Date: Fall/Winter 2024
🔗 Read the Essay
My essay discusses the lasting cultural relevance of mythological female figures and their role in shaping modern narratives, particularly through my own series.

 

 

 

Newspaper Vradini (Η Βραδυνή)
Format: Print Press Feature
Location: Greece
Date: December 2022
Feature: Article on the International Art Exhibition "Inspiration" at Time of Art Gallery, Kifissia, Athens, Greece.
Coverage of the group exhibition where I exhibited alongside renowned Greek and international artists.

Time of Art Gallery – "Inspiration" Exhibition
Format: Physical Group Exhibition
 

 

 

The Art Guide – Autumn Festival of Art 2024
Format: Digital Exhibition
Publisher: Camelback Gallery
Feature: Gold Award for "Copper Reverie in the Fall"

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Art Week – Autumn Festival of Art 2024
Format: Online Exhibition Feature
Publisher: Camelback Gallery

Feature: Gold Award for "Copper Reverie in the Fall"

 

 

Accademia Italia In Arte Nel Mondo – Premio Hermes Il Messaggero Degli Dei
Location: Brindisi, Italy
Date: August 2021
Feature: Award recognition for the artwork "Celestial Aura" from "Soul Kingdom" Collection

 

 

Premio Dante Alighieri – Art Now Magazine
Location: Florence, Italy
Publisher: Art Now
Date: June–July 2021
Feature: Full-color feature of "Beyond" from "Soul Kingdom" Collection

 

 

✍️ Editorial Essays by Annita Apostolidou Platis

The Art of Presence: Women in 2025 and the Power of Self-Expression
Platform: LinkedIn
Date: March 2025
🔗 Read on LinkedIn
A reflection on modern womanhood, art, and the evolving role of self-expression in creative identity.

 

 

Behind the Mask: What Carnival Teaches Us About Art and Identity
Platform: LinkedIn
Date: March 2025
🔗 Read Article
Exploring cultural symbolism, duality, and transformation through the lens of the Venetian Carnival.

 

 

Fashion Today: From Sustainability to Technology and Social Responsibility
Platform: Vogue Hellas (New Talents Contest Submission)
Date: February 2025
🔗 Read Article
An exploration of haute couture as cultural storytelling and future-forward innovation.

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