Description

Harris Pressas studied in Italy at the School of Fine Arts in Florence where he graduated with a first class degree with distinction. Thereupon he specialised in painting and photography following two-year specialisation courses at the School. He lived in Florence for eight years. His work spans Sculpture, Constructions, Painting, and Fine Art Photography.  From 1987 until 2017 he taught at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens.  Harris Pressas has been elected President of the Photography & Audiovisual Arts Department for five terms (2003, 2006, 2008, 2014 and 2016) and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts & Design (T.E.I.) for two terns (2015-2016 and 2016-2017) Since February 2018 Harris Pressas is Professor at the University of West Attica, Athens-Greece, Department of Photography & Audiovisual Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts & Culture where he teaches courses in “Picture Composition”, “Visual Arts Applications” as well as in “Art History”. H.P. in September 2019 has been elected Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts & Culture – University of West Attica, Athens-Greece. Since 2015 he teaches “Compositional Structure Analysis in Still & Motion Picture” as part of the Postgraduate Programme “Video Production, Audiovisual Media & Motion Graphics”

Pressas has been widely exhibited in 17 solo and 39 group exhibitions and has attended 16 art symposiums and events internationally. His works can be seen in public and private collections in Greece and abroad, in the municipality of Saint-Égrève -France, in Patras-Greece, in Pingyao-China, at LTCP of NTUA, and at TEI of Athens.