He was born in Athens in 1944. He studied painting under Yannis Moralis and set design under Vasilis Vasiliadis at the Athens School of Fine Arts, as well as engraving at London’s Central Saint Martins and Croydon School of Art. In 1968 he won the Parthenis award. He presented samples of his work at the Serpentine Gallery, with the help of Eduardo Paolozzi. During his stay in England he was preoccupied with the Greekness in art and studied the work of Theophilos, Yannis Tsarouchis and Fotis Kontoglou. He founded the “Art Group” (1955) and was a founding member of the group “New Greek Realists.” He was also a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EETE). He taught at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has collaborated, among others, with the Greek Art Theater. In 2013, a retrospective exhibition of his works was presented at the Benaki Museum, while some of his works are at the Athens National Gallery and elsewhere. In 1979 he represented Greece at the Paris Biennale and participated in the 1982 Europalia in Antwerp. He has designed sets for the movie Anna's arranged marriage [To proxenio tis Annas] by Pantelis Voulgaris (1971) and designed the costumes for Days of '36 [Meres tou '36] by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1971). His first visual movie, The way to the West [Ο dromos pros ti Dysi], won the First State Award of best documentary (2003), as well as the Critics' Award of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). His motion picture Sweet Memory [Glykia Mnimi] was screened in the Montreal International Film Festival. He collaborated with the GNO as set and costume designer in the production of the opera The master builder [O protomastoras, 1983], which however was called off. // Last update of the biography: March 2019.