Maria Zervos is a visual artist, performer, poet and translator. Her art work and poetry examines personal and cultural mappings to trace inner cartographies of home and the dichotomies between nature and culture.  

Zervos has directed more than 30 moving image projects including My Half of the Sky, My Half of the Earth, Peripatetics (Athens), Nomadoogy (The Route), Bon Voyage and Traveler. Her recent video project The Camp concerns the refugee experience of cultural theorist, Svetlana Boym, as visual history in order to amplify personal and collective memory. Zervos has edited Peripatetics, an art book that investigates the nature of walking from Aristotle onward. Selected by Zervos, the writers of Peripatetics include Jelle Bouwhuis, Maria Koundoura, Pablo Medina and Ersi Sotiropoulos, among others. Zervos’s poetry and art work was recently published in Peripheries, a journal of word, image and sound at Harvard University. Zervos’s writing has appeared, among other places, in Poeticanet, Salamander and [φρμκ].

Zervos has presented her art work internationally in numerous art spaces, museums, theaters and biennials, among them the MOMUs-Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut, EMST Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Onassis Cultural Center New York, Bonnefanten Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Modern Theater Boston and Harvard University. Maria Zervos has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University at the department of Film and Visual Studies. She is a Fulbright scholar and her research has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Mondriaan Fund, NEON, Elson Family Arts Initiative Fund, and the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation. Zervos was invited by The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) for a residency program and she has taught performance, visual art and theory at Emerson College and Harvard University.

She lives and works between Boston (USA) and Athens (Greece).