Elena Soterakis is a Brooklyn based artist. She received her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA in Illustration from The School of Visual Arts. She has received awards for outstanding work from the Salmagundi Club, admittance into the New York Foundation For the Arts, M.A.R.K. Program, and won the "Dialogue of Art" contest where her painting Street Corner, Coney Island was exhibited at WNYC's, Jerome L. Green Space. Her "Power Plant" is currently featured in the American Scenes exhibition at Amsterdam's Arti et Amicitiae art space.