What People Are Saying

“What gives Maria Zervos’s work its particular force and singular impression is the extraordinary melding of visual art and poetry, and the way that her knowledge of classical Greek art and poetry so deeply informs her modern sensibility.”

— David Ferry

American Poet & Translator

“Maria’s themes of interest often include the dignity of the human struggle, home and exile, migrations, and other forms of loss and displacement. These concerns are metaphors for our present condition, be it political, environmental or personal.”

— George Kalogeris

Poet & Director of the Poetry Center, Suffolk University

“[W]hat perhaps best characterizes [Zervos’s] work is that idiosyncratic sense of the female self rather than any polemical element. Rather than being about attitude it is more about creating a sense of doubt and perhaps also ambiguity about the self.”

— Katerina Gregos 

Artistic Director, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)

“Zervos's images and poems often refer to the idea of disappearance, which is inherent in any departure, and to the notion that something is left behind with every new beginning. Nonetheless, she rewards her traveling companions – we, the viewers – with itineraries and arrivals full of anticipation, enchantment and astonishing beauty.”

— Andrea Gilbert

Art Critic & Human Rights Activist

Maria Zervos is a visual artist and poet who works at the intersection of video, performance, drawing and poetry. 

She is the director of more than 30 video projects and her work has been presented in solo and group shows internationally.

Zervos examines cross-cultural identities and gender issues through the remapping of personal geographies.