Born in 1974
Lives and works in Nicosia and Athens.
Education
1995 BFA Painting, School of Fine and Performing arts,
SUNY New Paltz, New York.
Solo exhibitions.
2020 The Height of the Horizon Astrolavos art Gallery, Athens.
2012 City recollections, Gloria Gallery,Nicosia.
2009 Urban Traces, Astrolavos art Gallery, Athens.
2004 Gloria Gallery, Nicosia
2004 Monohoro Gallery, Athens.
2000 New works, Gloria Gallery,Nicosia.
1998 Gloria Gallery, Nicosia.
Selected group exhibitions.
2022 Exclusives 2022 at Astrolavos art galleries. Athens.
2022 Art Athina, Astrolavos art galleries , International contemporary art fair in Athens,Zappeion megaro.
2022 X-plore Art, Astrolavos art galleries
2021 Highlights 2021-2022, Astrolavos art galleries.
2021 Inspiration from Greece, Astrolavos art galleries.
2020 Art Athina online virtual rooms, Astrolavos art galleries.
2020 Exclusives Astrolavos art gallery,
2020 Highlights 2019-20, Astrolavos art gallery , Athens.
2019 Art Athina, international contemporary art fair of Athens, Astrolavos art galleries.
2019 Group exhibition , Astrolavos-art gallery.
2018 A panorama of modern greek art, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2018 Exclusives 2018 , Astrolavos art gallery.
2017 Highlights 2017-18, Astrolavos art gallery,
2017 Exclusives 2017, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2016 Exclusives 2016, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2015 Highlights 2015, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2014 Highlights 2014, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2013 Highlights 2013, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2013 K.P Kavafis Poems, an illustrated journey, Gloria gallery, Nicosia.
2013 Old city, New city, Athens Fringe festival, Athens.
2012 Exclusives, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens
2010 Group exhibition, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2010 Visual arts rhythms , Fifty years of Cyprus artistic creation,curator Marina Schiza,
Melina Merkouri Hall, Nicosia.
2010 Aegean Art travels, Andros Island.
2009 Group exhibition, Astrolavos art gallery, Athens.
2009 Art Athina, International contemporary art fair of Athens. Astrolavos art galleries, Athens.
2009 Sketch it out, APW gallery, Long Island, New York.
2008 Rendez vous des Arts, Exhibition center at Elliniko , Athens.
2008 Music, Second triennial EX LIBRIS of Lefkas. Cultural center of Lefkas.
2007 Under construction-alternative museum spaces, Nicosia municipal arts center, Nicosia.
2007 Belle Arte Lamia, International contemporary art exhibition, Lamia..
2007 Young Cypriot Artists , Akamantis space, Nicosia.
2004 Group exhibition, Monohoro gallery, Athens.
2003 Lookout art projections, Athens.
2000 Group exhibition at Gallery Gloria, Nicosia.
2000 World Festival of Art on paper, Krantz, Slovenia.
Statement 2020
I am interested in how we perceive and process images, in our visual ability to generate new realities and how memory
and the subconscious are linked to the creation of a work of art.
My fascination with maps and my constant engagement with drawing and its relation to writing,
brought about a process of inventing forms that has become the basis of my last work.
My paintings begin with a repetitive pattern all over the surface, made with charcoal or pastel,
reminiscent of handwriting. This elaborate drawing serves as an endless source of forms brought to the surface by the painting process.
In this chaotic linear web I look for shapes and structures which I further develop by erasing lines or adding oil paint and colors.
I often allow the previous layers to show through, in order to illustrate the development of a piece.
Finally I add shapes and symbols derived from vintage and digital maps, architectural plans, manuscripts, diagrams,, patterns and textures found in nature,
in an attempt to create associations and a visual narrative.
I want the work to have variety, to raise questions and combine personal expression
with a complex pictorial version of the world.
I am interested in how we perceive and process images, in our visual ability to generate new realities and how memory
and the subconscious are linked to the creation of a work of art.
My fascination with maps and my constant engagement with drawing and its relation to writing,
brought about a process of inventing forms that has become the basis of my last work.
My paintings begin with a repetitive pattern all over the surface, made with charcoal or pastel,
reminiscent of handwriting. This elaborate drawing serves as an endless source of forms brought to the surface by the painting process.
In this chaotic linear web I look for shapes and structures which I further develop by erasing lines or adding oil paint and colors.
I often allow the previous layers to show through, in order to illustrate the development of a piece.
Finally I add shapes and symbols derived from vintage and digital maps, architectural plans, manuscripts, diagrams,, patterns and textures found in nature,
in an attempt to create associations and a visual narrative.
I want the work to have variety, to raise questions and combine personal expression
with a complex pictorial version of the world.
