Ellie Rokkas is a young, upcoming Greek-American artist born in St. Louis, Missouri. She preoccupied herself with the fine arts while attending Wheaton College in Massachusetts, from which she graduated in 2010. Subsequently, she moved on to intensively study fashion design at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York. At the same time, she experimented with painting. Upon moving to Athens in 2012 she attended art lessons from Alkistis Michaelidou and printmaking classes from Evi Athanasiou. In her work she has explored ideas regarding abstract modern art, as well as symbolization. She is currently living and working in Athens, Greece.