Dimitris Koukos

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Biography

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 Ioannis Moralis, teachers who have an important intellectual presence in his work as well as in his life from that time on. In parallel, between 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. Since 1978, he lives and works in Athens. He teaches at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1983 to today. He has exhibited his work at many individual and group exhibitions, including the one person exhibitions at Ora Art Centre, Athens (1977); Modern Engraving Gallery, Athens (1979); Argo Gallery, Athens (1981); EM Gallery, Volos (1981); Zygos Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (1982); Athens Music Hall - 15 Years of Painting (1984); Seasons Art Gallery, Kifissia (1984); Zoumboulaki Gallery, Athens (1986); Opus Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (1986);Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus (1988); Zoumboulaki Gallery, Athens (1989); Irmos Gallery, Thessaloniki (1990); Artcticus Gallery, Fulhnam, London (1991); Palace of the Grand Masters, Rhodes (1992); Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Glyfada (1995); Gallery 3, Athens (1995); Gallery Ekfrasi, Glyfada; Art Athens (1996); Art Forum Vilka Gallery, Thessaloniki (1997); ADAM GALLERY, Athens (1997); Calendar of AGET IRAKLIS «THRAKI OF DIMITRIS KOUKOS», Didimotiho (1998); Gallery Selini, Kifissia (1998); Calendar of AGET IRAKLIS «THRAKI OF DIMITRIS KOUKOS», THRACIAN ART AND TRADITION ACADEMY, Xanthi (2000); Athinaiki Zithopiia «Olympic Games», Athens (2002); Ikastikos Kiklos, Art Space, Athens (2006). The artist's work can be found in private collections in the USA, France, Italy, the U.K. as well as in the National Gallery in Athens, the Pierides Art Gallery, the Gallery Vorres Museum, the Cultural Institute of the National Bank of Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education in Cyprus, the ETEBA and the National Bank of Greece.