The art critic, art historian, and painter Athina Schina was born in Athens in 1948.
She is a graduate of the American College of Greece (Pierce College). She studied Greek and English Philology, as well as History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. She graduated from the Advanced School of Tourist Guides in Athens and pursued postgraduate studies in the History and Methodology of European Art in Tours and at the Sorbonne (Paris I and IV). Supported by a fellowship from the Seeger Foundation, she conducted further postgraduate studies at Princeton University, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art.
She taught at the Advanced School of Tourist Guides in Athens (1977–1983) and in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art within the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens (1981–2015). She is actively involved in promoting modern and contemporary art through books, exhibition catalogs, articles in newspapers and art journals, lectures, radio broadcasts, and her participation in artistic committees and institutions. She has curated numerous exhibitions of Greek artists and has served as artistic director and president of the Visual Arts Committee of the Museum of Modern Greek Art of the Municipality of Rhodes. She is an active member of both the Greek and International Association of Art Critics (A.I.C.A.).
Her paintings reveal an influence from N.G. Pentzikis, with whom she collaborated on several artworks.
At the ‘Diagonios’ Little Art Gallery of Dinos Christianopoulos, she held a solo exhibition in 1975 and participated in 26 of its group exhibitions (1975–1977, 1979–1982, 1985).