Elena Soterakis is an artist exploring themes of environmental degradation and our relationship with technology and the natural world, through painting, sculpture, and large-scale creative productions. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Matsudo Science and Art Festival in Japan, The Museum of the Art and Design Atlanta, the San Louise Obispo Museum of Art, and Spring Break Art Show.

Soterakis is a founding member and Director of Creative Productions of Beyond Earth, a women-led international transdisciplinary artist collective, exploring the frontiers of art, space, and biology through space-bound artworks. On June 18, 2021, Beyond Earth launched their large-scale art installation Living Light to outer space. Living Light celebrates ocean life and AI technologies. This space flight was made possible in collaboration with Space Perspective, a commercial space-flight company.

Soterakis is also the Co-Founder and Director of BioBAT Art Space, a gallery dedicated to the intersection of Science, Art, and Technology. This 18,000 sqft. exhibition space is located in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, on the ground floor of the biotech incubator BioBAT Inc., which is funded by SUNY Downstate and the Economic Development Corporation of New York. BioBAT Art Space’s mission is to bring innovative Contemporary Art, Science, and Educational programming to Brooklyn that is accessible to all and fosters community.

In March of 2020, Soterakis Co-Founded the Great Pause Project during the onset of the viral, global spread of COVID-19. Great Pause Project is a series of records documenting the COVID-19 pandemic via a browser-based platform that invites written and photo-based responses from participants all over the world.

Soterakis received her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art and her BFA in illustration from The School of Visual Arts. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Visual Arts at Suffolk County Community College and the City University of New York’s Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. Awards include Constance Saltonstall Foundation Fellowship and New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Program.