Special Information for the Artist
Born (1975) in Athens.
He studied in the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1993 to 2003 under Professor Rena Papaspirou. He is currently studying printmaking under Professor Michalis Arfaras in the A.S.F.A.
In 1998 he has been awarded the Yiannis & Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation second prize award. He has also been awarded the Hellenic State Scholarships Foundation’s two-year grant in printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
He is a contributing illustrator to “Babel” magazine as well as to the periodical publications “9” and “Bibliothiki” of the newspaper “Eleftherotipia”. Since 2007 he is employed as an illustrator in the newspaper “To Vima” as well as in the monthly Athens Review of Books.
In 2000 “Futura” publications published his graphic novel entitled “O Giaponas” (“the Japanese”) and in 2009 “Enati Diastasi” publications printed the sequel “O Giaponas – Deuteronomion”.
He works as an illustrator in the “VIMA” newspaper and the Athens Review of Books.
His works are in the collections of the Benaki Museum, the Frissiras Museum for Contemporary European Painting, the Kouvoutsakis Institute and the Spyropoulos Museum as well as in various other private and public collections in Greece and abroad.
COMMISSIONS
2004 Commissioned by the Benaki Museum for a portrait of the benefactor Andonis Benakis.
PUBLICATIONS
2009 “The Japanese - Deuteronomion” - Ninth Dimension Publications
2004 “Skies”-Futura Publications
2003 “An Army of One”-Scripta Publications
2002 “Antennae”-Futura Publications
2000 “The Jap”-Futura Publications
PRIZES
1998 Yiannis & Zoe Spyropoulos Foundation Award (second prize)
GRANTS
2004-2006 Scholarship for printmaking (Hellenic Scholarships Foundation)
2006-2008 Scholarship for visual arts (Propondis Foundation)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008 Gallery “24” - Athens
2003 “An Army of One” (curator: Lina Tsikouta)-Gallery “24” – Athens
2002 “Antennae” Gallery “24” - Athens
2001 Babel Gallery - Athens
2000 Gallery “24” - Athens
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2010 “Battlefield” – taf (The Art Foundation), Athens
2009 – “It happened in Athens” - Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens – Poulopoulos’building (curator: Iris Kritikou)
2009 “6 x Printmaking”- Kaplanon 5 Gallery
2007 “Birthplace” – Benaki Museum (curator: Iris Kritikou)
2006 “Homage to G. Viziinos” Gallery “24” / “Vivliothiki” magazine of the newspaper “Eleftherotipia” - Athens
2005 Gallery “24”-Athens
2005 Belgrade Comics Festival-Yugoslavia
2004 Benaki Museum (curator: Thanassis Moutsopoulos)-Athens
2004 Lola Nikolaou Gallery- Thessaloniki
2004 Aegina Folk Museum (curator: Iris Kritikou) - Aegina
2004 Emmanuel Roidis – Gallery “24”(curator: Michel Fais)- Athens
2004 Everyday Hellas – Whitebox Gallery, New York (curator: Heather Kouris)-U.S.A.
2003 Coup de Coeur-Athens Art Gallery (curator: Evgenia Alexaki)-Athens
2002 All Fashioned-State Museum of Contemporary Art– Thessaloniki
2002 All Fashioned-Larissa Contemporary Art Center, (curator: Nikos Xydakis) - Larissa
2002 Anthropogeografia-Rethymnon Contemporary Art Center, (curator: Maria Maragou) – Crete
2002 7th International Comics Festival of “Babel”(Αlsos Stratou) - Athens
2001 Livre d’ Artistes – text and objects (Gallery “7”) - Athens
2001 Art Athina - Athens
2001 6th International Comics Festival of “Babel” (Athens Technopolis – Gazi)
2001 Astrolavos Dexameni Gallery - Athens
2000 Gallery “24” - Athens
2000 5th International Comics Festival of “Babel” (Athens Technopolis – Gazi)
2000 Artists of the Spyropoulos Museum, “Hellenic Cosmos” Cultural Center (curator: Olga Daniilopoulou) - Athens
1998 Y&Z Spyropoulos Foundation Awards (Spyropoulos Museum) - Athens
1997 Art Heineken ’97 (Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens – Poulopoulos’building)
1996 Art Heineken ’97 (Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens – Poulopoulos’building)
