Description

Dimitris Koukos was born in Athens in 1948. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1969 to 1974, with Nikos Nikolaou and loannis Moralis, teachers who have an important intellectual presence in his work as well as in his life from that time on. In parallel, from 1972 to 1974, he studied scene painting under Vassilis Vassiliadis. From 1975 to 1978, he did his postgraduate studies on a scholarship granted by the EOEX at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, with Gustav Sengiers.

In 1983-2001 and 1999-2014 he was teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the first painting laboratory of Yannis Moralis and Dimitris Mitaras. In 1996 he participated in the research project “Model of Violence” with Dimitris Mitaras and the students of the first painting laboratory.

In 2011 he was elected member of the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences. In the same year he designed the postage stamps for the opening of the Acropolis Museum (ELTA). From 2011-2018 was a professor at the Athens-Psychiko College.

Some selected solo exhibitions he has held are:

Athens Concert Hall – 15 Years of Painting (Athens, 1984), Zoumboulakis Gallery (Athens, 1986 and 1989), Arcticus Gallery (London, 1991), Grand Master’s Palace for the celebration of the 2400 years of Rhodes (Rhodes, 1992), Pierides Gallery of Contemporary Art (Glyfada, 1995), Stavros Mihalarias Gallery (Athens, 2002), designed the Olympic Sports and exhibitions were held in Olympic cities (Athens Olympic Stadium, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, Crete and the World Congress of Samothrace in 2004), Gallery “K” (London and Nicosia, 2011), Gallery “Artespressione” (Milan, 2012). He also took part in many group exhibitions throughout these years of his career.