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Born in 1985.
Lives and works in Thessaloniki and Athens, Greece.

Education
2007-2012   
BA Fine Arts, Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the Fine Arts School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 
2003-2005      
Graphic Design and Visual Communication in Thessaloniki 

Awards and Fellowships
2018
1st SNF Artist Fellowship Program, launched by ARTWORKS, Athens GR

Solo Shows
2016
For the Eye altering alters all / The Senses roll themselves in fear / And the flat Earth becomes a Ball,
AD Gallery, Athens, GR
2013
An Endless Present, AD Gallery, Athens GR
The Hard Problem, Donopoulos IFA, Thessaloniki GR
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars, Les Yper Yper -- physical/conceptual habitat, Thessaloniki GR

Selected Group Shows
2018
At the Beginning Was the Word: Concepts - Images - Script, cur. K.Koskina & A.Mykoniati, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing CN
Abracadabra, Main Project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, cur. L. Calabrò Visconti, Moscow RU 
2017
On a Small Scale: Pop-Up Show, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Epilogue, cur. A.Palavrakis, Kunstverein Herdecke, Herdecke DE
Life: Repetition and Overturn, cur. S.Pantazis, "Athens Intersection" cultural program, Old Paper Warehouse, Athens GR
Taking Roots: 14 Movies, 14 Inceptions, 14 Roots of the Soul, cur. O.Andreadakis, 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki GR
Art Facing the Ruins, AD Gallery, Athens GR
The Right to Be Human, cur. T.Vrachopoulos, H.Savopoulos, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR
2016
Aristotelous Project Thessaloniki: Greek Post, cur. Areti Leopoulou, 26 Aristotelous str., Thessaloniki GR
Against the day, cur. Christopher Marinos, Melina Cultural Centre, Athens GR
The Equilibrists, cur. Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni, organized by the New Museum (New York) and DESTE Foundation (Athens), Benaki Museum, Athens GR
Art-Athina (with AD Gallery), Athens GR
DRAWING NOW PARIS 2016 (with AD Gallery), Carreau du Temple, Paris FR
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin DE
Yoko Ono: Lumière de L'aube - contribution to the work "Water Event", Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon FR
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris FR
2015
Rendez-vous 15 | Emerging International Creation, in the framework of the 13th Biennale de Lyon, Institut d’Art Contemporain (IAC) Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Lyon FR
Map of the New Art, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice IT
Art-Athina ’15 (with AD Gallery), Athens GR
DRAWING NOW PARIS 2015 (with AD Gallery), Carreau du Temple, Paris FR
Group ‘15, Marinos Vrachimis/art proposals, Nicosia CY
2014
Artist 2014/24th International Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul TR
Athen 1.0 - Eine Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Biesenbach, Koln DE
Art-Athina ‘14 (with Donopoulos IFA), Athens GR
Art-Athina Contemporaries: Statement made, curated by Artemis Potamianou, Athens GR
Mediterranean temperament? Regional stereotypes and other myths, 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, CACT — Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR
2013
Scream Now While You Can Still Breathe, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Afresh, curated by Daphne Dragona, Daphne Vitali, Tina Pandi, EMST - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR
Thrills and Chills, curated by Daily Lazy, CAN Gallery, Athens GR
Art-Athina ‘13 (with Donopoulos IFA), Athens GR
2012
ΑΪΝ ΑΟΥΓΚΕΝΜΠΛΙΚ! - Vier junge griechische Künstler, curated by Apostolos Palavrakis, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf DE
Stopover, curated by Nikos Mykoniatis, Action Field Kodra 12 - 12th visual arts festival, Former military barracks Kodra, Thessaloniki GR
ROOMS 2012, curated by Haris Savvopoulos, St. George Lycabettus, Athens GR
2011
Drawing Room, Omikron Gallery, Nicosia CY
Minimum Colour, Tsatsis Projects/Artforum, Thessaloniki GR
Cartographies of the Unknown, Penindaplinena Gallery, Limassol CY
PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS, curated by Christina Androulidaki, AD Gallery-ReMap3 Project, Parallel to the 3rd Athens Biennale, Athens GR
Drawing Stories (2), curated by mis(s) group (Maria Panayides – Isabela Kova - Stavros Kavallaris), Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens GR
Art-Athina ‘11 (with AD Gallery), Athens GR
Hereafter, curated by Theofilos Tramboulis, Cultural Center of Athens, Athens GR
2010   
Drawing Stories, curated by mis(s) group (Maria Panayides – Isabela Kova – Stavros Kavallaris), Penindaplinena Gallery, Limassol CY
Art at the Time of Collapse, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Action Field Kodra 10 - 10th visual arts festival, curated by Nikos Mykoniatis, Former military barracks Kodra, Thessaloniki GR
Art-Athina ‘10 (with Tsatsis Projects/Artforum), Athens GR
2009   
Verge Art Fair ‘09 (with Tsatsis Projects/Artforum), Miami FL
Why Cinema Now?, 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival / Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, Thessaloniki GR
Thessaloniki… Balkans, Tsatsis Projects/Artforum, Thessaloniki GR
1st Unit, Tsatsis Projects/Artforum, Thessaloniki GR
Peristera Cultural Center of the University of Ioannina, Municipal Art Gallery, Ioannina GR

Residencies/ Workshops
2014
Through the Image, Beyond the Image (pt. 2), curated by Adrian Paci, Free Home University (FHU), Lecce IT
2013
Through the Image, Beyond the Image (pt. 1), curated by Adrian Paci, Free Home University (FHU), Lecce IT
4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art: Young Artists’ Workshop, Thessaloniki GR

Public Commissions
2008
Special commission for the Thessaloniki Museum of Cinema

Awards / Commendations
2009
Peristera Cultural Center of the University of Ioannina GR