Dimitra Skandali is a multimedia artist living and working on Paros. She has been working in both the United States and on the island of Paros, from 2011 until 2019. She was born and raised in Alyki, a small village in the south west of Paros, where the Cycladic Arts Artist-In-Residence Space is located. She is one of the 31 grandchildren of Kostas and Moschou Skandali, who owned the building and the daughter of Stephanos Skandalis, one of the 12 children of the couple.