Rea Afantitou was born in Nicosia in 1960. She studied Plastic Arts in France – Universite de Provence Aix-Marseille. She lives and works in Nicosia. Her artistic career is based on the study and research of concepts such as the trace as a carrier of memory, forgetting, identity, otherness. Her work is conceptually charged through the semantic value of the material -painting medium, metal, fabric, cotton, transparency, objet trouve etc.-
She has presented her works in solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. She has taken part in the XVII Alexandria Biennale with a group of artists from Cyprus in 1991 and in the Sharjah Biennale –United Arab Emirates in 1999 with a group of artists from Greece.
With her work she has been invited to participate in group exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, England, France, Spain, Malta and Belgium.
Rea Afantitou's parallel occupation since her return to Cyprus until today is the teaching of Art. In 1985 she created the HELIOS Art Workshop with the aim of Visual Education by organizing educational programs, exhibitions, exhibitions, lectures and seminars.