Ileana Arnaoutou (b.1994) is an artist, based in Athens, Greece.
She graduated in 2017 from the Slade School of Fine UCL with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, and in 2018 from University College London with an MA in Art History.
In 2018 Ileana co-founded Athens Open Studio, an artist run space in Athens focusing on practice-led inquiry and education.
Ileana has participated in various group exhibitions, a selection of which is: 'Encore: New Greek Painting' at the Municipal Gallery of Athens, 'Broken Heart Syndrome' in Two Thirds project space in Athens, 'ATHENSYN II: Going Viral' in Steinzeit gallery in Berlin, '21! New Greek Painting' at the Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos in Crete, 'APOTROPAION' in 16 Fokionos Negri/The Felios Collection, 'Intimacy: A Modern Tyranny' in the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and has been awarded the ARTWORKS Fellowship programme in 2020 funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Schilizzi Foundation scholarship and the UCL bursary.
From 2019 Ileana has been developing a collaborative practice with sculptress Ismene King, creating a sympoietic condition that focuses on sculptural and community forming practices, based on co-making as an embodied and subjective way of relating with one another, and their surroundings. They approach their collaboration as an extension of their personal practices and a result of an urgency to contemplate around issues such as embodied femininity and loss as a potent and porous situation, notions which they consider essential to unravel in a collaborative manner. They have been awarded the 2022 GnA Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize for their in situ sculptural installation 'Tender shell geophilia'. As an artist duo they created the in-situ installation 'A Conservation of water writings' at Atopos cvc, as a commission work for 'The Office of the Hydrocommons' with the support of the GnA Mamidakis Foundation and Atopos cvc. In 2023 the artistic duo started a research sculptural project with curator Olympia Tzortzi, based on the aftermath material of a destroyed wind turbine blade. This project culminated in a series of works that where showcased as part of the One Work Series in October 2023at Callirrhoe, titled 'All the sticks, spears and swords, blades entwined', and as part of their first solo show as an artistic duo at Alkinois in March 2024, titled 'I will hold you forever. Or till everyone leaves the room.'