Architect · Artist · Scholar
Zenovia Toloudi
D.Des., Associate Professor of Architecture, Dartmouth College
Working between art and architecture, Zenovia creates installations and inhabitable spaces that explore light, color, materiality, scale, and the senses through play. Her research investigates subjectivity, perception, collective practices, public space, and vernacular forms of everyday life.
Understory Fold, 2025
Yellow+Blue, 2021
Silo(e)scapes, 2017–19
Photodotes V, 2015
Aegean Archipelago, 2006
The Cage Pavilion, 2000
Research
- Doctorate
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Fellowships
- Fulbright; St Gaudens Memorial; MIT Art, Culture & Technology
- Practice
- 35+ installations & exhibitions
Zenovia Toloudi, D.Des., is an architect, artist, and scholar whose work sits at the intersection of art and architecture. It addresses the increasing disconnection of people from both natural and constructed environments, and from each other, and suggests alternatives to restore lost connections.
Zenovia merges artistic practice with architectural theory, producing site-specific installations that investigate the act of building and its relationship to lived experience. Her practice moves between the ephemeral and the permanent, exploring place, ecology, and the public realm. Working across Greece and the USA, she draws on a fascination with these contexts, where landscapes, cultural practices, and ways of making inform her work.
Selected Projects
Understory Fold
Saint-Gaudens Memorial Museum, Cornish, NH
Yellow+Blue
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Silo(e)scapes
Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece / Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Photodotes V: Cyborg Garden
Fenway, Boston, MA — with Spyros Ampanavos
Optotopia II: The Disc
New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA
Optotopia I: Polyphemus' Eye
New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA
Blanket III
Strauss Gallery, Hanover, NH / BAC, Boston, MA
Photodotes IV: Living Wall
as part of Photodotes (Light Donors) series with plants
Photodotes I
Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA
Micro-Ceasefire Under Shadow (series)
City Hall, Alexandroupolis, Greece
3 States of Hors-D'oeuvres
Harvard, Cambridge, MA — with Project on Spatial Sciences and Harvard Lab
Talking Room(s)
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA — with Dimitris Papanikolaou
Mutant Moving Room
Podmajersky Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aegean Archipelago: An Aquatic Metacity
Venice Biennale, Italy
The Cage Pavilion
Thessaloniki, Greece — with M. Stefanidis, C. Lekka, G. Toloudis & C. Varotsos
Exhibitions & Collections
Venues
- Venice Biennale, Italy
- Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
- Center for Architecture, New York
- Boston Architectural College
- Athens Byzantine Museum
- Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
- Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
- Saint-Gaudens Memorial, USA
Commissions
- Illuminus Boston
- The Lab at Harvard
Permanent Collections
- Aristotle University
- Thracian Pinacotheca
Publications
25+ articles & book chaptersPublished Chapters
- The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture
- Technoetic Arts: Journal of Speculative Research
- MIT Press
- Palgrave/MacMillan
Catalogue
- Technoutopias — catalogue for the solo exhibition
Full List
Education
- Doctor of Design Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA
- M.Arch. College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
- Diploma of Architect Engineer School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Erasmus Exchange Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Contact
- Email zenovia@gmail.com
- Instagram @ztoloudi
