Biography - Elias Papanikolaou

Elias Papanikolaou was born in Athens in 1974. He studied painting (1991-1996) in the Αthens School of Fine Arts under Nikos Kessanlis. His works have been exhibited in 16 solo exhibitions: ARTIO gallery, Zoumboulaki gallery, Titanium gallery, Astrolavos gallery, Melanythros gallery, Cube gallery, Kaplanon 5 gallery, Metamorphosi gallery, Ikastikos Kiklos gallery, Syntagma Metro station, Grigoriadis Gallery, Ikastikos Kiklos DL gallery and in many other outstanding group exhibitions (London, Cyprus, New York, Paris, Smyrna, Istanbul) as well as in several auctions. He has illustrated poem collections, music discs, book covers, etc. In 2014 he starts his collaboration with ‘’Group Point Zero’’ for scenic installations. His artworks are included in public and private collections in Greece as well as in private collections in other countries (Athens School of Fine Arts, Municipal Gallery of Patras, Municipal Gallery of Kalamata, Municipal Gallery of Agrinio, Municipal Gallery of Karditsa, Vogiatzoglou Gallery, Moschandreou Gallery, American College of Greece, Athens Metro, Heineken Company, Schutz Art Museum, Kopelouzos Museum, Vorres Museum, ENIA GALLERY-DL gallery Felios collection, Logothetis collection, Drakos collection, Karelias collection, American director Oliver Stone’s collection, Kaan Terzioglu collection and in many other collections). He lives and works in Athens.

2018 Three generations of greek painting, engraving, sculpture (#2)

2018 ATHENS through collections of Moschandreou Museum

2018 TURKCELL, ART IN COMMUNICATION

2018 Evasion #1

2017 GREEK LIGHT PHOS

2016 GREEK LIGHT PHOS

2015 The Book of Life

2012 Contemporary Greek Art

2011 Auction of Greek and Cypriot artists

2011 Auction of Contemporary Art

2011 Natura

2011 The CRISIS and Beyond

2008 Silent Dialogues

2008 Art, Life for the planet

2008 Forest-A margin in memory

2006 From the older generation to the new one

2000 Artquake

2000 Small paintings

1999 Artquake

1998 Non Stop Art

1997 Graduates 1996

1996 Monoprakta

1994 Heineken Art

Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation, Athens

Museum of the City of Athens

Galata School, Istanbul (curator: Kiriakos Petalidis)

Izmir Chamber of Commerce, Smyrna (curator : Kiriakos Petalidis)

Gallery of Macedonian Studies Company, Thessaloniki (curator : Kiriakos Petalidis

ESPACE CHRISTIANE PEUGEOT, Paris (cooperation of Depot art gallery with Espace Christiane Peugeot)

General Consulate of Greece, New York

"National Herald" (Historical building), Long Island City, New York

The Muses, Hamptons, New York

Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, London

39^th Pan-hellenic Conference of Endocrinology, Athenaum Intercontinental, Athens

Hilton, Nicosia (curator: Alpha Zmart auctions)

Zappeio Megaro, Athens (curator: Gregory Kapopoulos)

Eugenides Foundation – Planetarium , Athens (curator: Athena Schina)

Hellenic Centre, Great Hall, London

Multimedia portraits over time, American College of Greece (curator: Megakles Rogakos)

Exhibition-Auction Bonhams, Natural History Museum Goulandris

Eugenides Foundation-Planetarium, Athens

Ellinogermaniki Agogi (curator: Athena Schina)

Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens (curator: Vicky Drakou)

Zoumboulaki gallery, Athens

Benaki Museum, Athens (curator: Vicky Drakou)

Athens Hilton (curator: Vicky Drakou)

National Gallery, Athens

Santa Marina Hotel, Mykonos (curator: Vicky Drakou)

Titanium gallery, Athens

2017 Book presentation: MOSCHANDREOU MUSEUM "20 years of supply to Greek Culture", Athens School of Fine Arts – Amphitheater

2017 Illustration and presentation of the music disc "The lights in the square", Stavros tou Notou (composer: Chrysostomos Karantoniou, singer: Panos Papaioannou, lyricist: Dimitris Papaharalampous), Feelgood Records

2016 Presentation on the state radio (ΕΡΤ) in the show "The Voice of Greece" (journalist: Zeta Karagianni)

2016 Presentation on the state TV (ΕΡΤ2) in the show "Duo Fina"

2015 Illustration of the (gallery) "Ikastikos Kiklos" calendar for the year 2016

2014 Participation of an artwork in the collectible book "ART project 35x35" by Kopelouzos Museum

2013 Illustration of the (newspaper) "Iho Dimoprasion" calendar for the year 2014

2013 Illustration of the (newspaper) "Iho Dimoprasion" cover

2012 Presentation on the state TV (NET) in the show "We stay in Greece"

2011 Illustration of the "Without here" poetic collection. Poet: Dionysis Karatzas. Donti publications

2011 Presentation of the book "Painterly sonets" in Art-Athina by NEREUS PUBLISHERS

2010 Presentation-Flashback in the institute of contemporary art "Art - Act" by art critics Christos Michalopoulos and Christos Theofilis

Short Biography

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions (selection)

Some of the Participations, Illustrations, Presentations