Tomée Tzatzanis is a Greek-Canadian artist and current PhD student in Social Anthropology at York University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree with a Specialist in Art History from the University of Toronto (2020), an MScR in Collections and Curating Practices from the University of Edinburgh (2022) and an MA in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University (2024). Her doctoral research centres around the complex, layered encounters between migrants and locals in rural Greece, ten years on since the so-called refugee crisis.

Using mixed media, Tomée’s art is inspired by street art and reflects the idea of Greek nostalgia in the diaspora. The Athens Wall Series reimagines the grey walls covered in colour that can be found throughout the city of Athens. She often incorporates the symbol of the swallow, or helidoni - a bird that is always travelling around but somehow finds its way home - as a signature. Her art journey began in April 2020 during quarantine in Canada, where she found herself missing Greece and searching for a way to stay connected with it through art.