Opy Zouni was born in Cairo in 1941 and died in Athens in 2008.

Between 1959 and 1962, she studied painting, ceramics, and photography in Cairo. She then moved to Athens and enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, Athens, where she studied painting in the workshop of Yiannis Moralis (1963-1968), ceramics (1963-1965) and stage design (1967-1969).

Zouni’s work is one of geometric abstraction, influenced by ancient Egyptian and Greek architecture and Bauhaus. Her work emits a sense of the third dimension within a two-dimensional plane and, although concretely geometric, achieves a distinguished kind of lyricism.

In all phases of her artistic creation, she experimented with light and shadow, colour, movement, perspective, space and materiality. The depiction of emptiness versus fullness or vistas testifies to her fascination with the theory of depth and optical illusion.

Zouni held many solo exhibitions in Athens and participated in several prestigious international group exhibitions such as the Salon des Indépendants, Paris and the Alexandria Biennale (1970); the Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris (1973, 1974, 1979); Art Basel (1978); the National Gallery of Ireland and the Sao Paolo Biennale (1979).

Her work is present in many public and private collections, notably that of the National Gallery of Greece, the Athens Municipal Gallery, the National Bank of Greece, the Averoff Gallery, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the B & E Goulandris Museum of Modern Art and the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.