ABOUT

Vassilis Perros is a painter, illustrator and designer who lives and works in Athens, Greece - where he was born in 1981. Enrolling at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1999, he studied painting under Yiannis Valavanidis and Michalis Manousakis and set design under Yiorgos Ziakas. He was awarded scholarships in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and graduated summa cum laude in 2005.

Since then, he has represented Greece at the Biennale of Paper, “Cartasia 2016”, in Lucca, Italy and at the 5th International Meeting of Fine Arts Schools in the Mediterranean in Genoa, Italy in 2004. He was awarded the prize of the 3rd Bienalle of Students of the Fine Arts Schools of Greece in 2004 and the Eurobank Private Scholarship in 2005.

In addition to five solo exhibitions, Vassili has participated in over 50 group exhibitions, illustrated book covers and record sleeves, and designed sets for numerous stage performances. His work has been acquired by private collections around the world.

WORK

PRESS 

CRITIQUE

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NEWS

Solo exhibition at Skoufa Gallery, Athens

I am delighted to announce my forthcoming solo show at Skoufa Gallery from November 15th to December 10th. Please join me at the opening reception at 19:30 on the 15th.

Why the Athens Art Scene Is One to Watch Out For

There has been an increasing buzz around the Athenian art scene in the past few years. Local and international artists are engaging with the effects of the crisis in dynamic ways. Culture Trip explores why the Athens art scene is one to watch out for… [via theculturetrip.com]

Mimycri: the Berlin project where migrants make refugee boats into bags

A scrap of discarded plastic boat provided the inspiration for a business employing migrants in Berlin

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2023 / "En oiko II - Domo II", Aspalathos Art Space, Triantaros, Tinos

2022 / StandinLine Art Space, Nicosia, Cyprus

2022 / "En oiko - Domo", Skoufa Art Gallery, Athens

2018 / "Ark", Skoufa Art Gallery, Athens

2015 / “A retrospective”, Art Gallery L-S, Elounda, Crete

2014 / “Project Suitcase”, Alpha C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2013 / "I carry my home - I carry it in my heart", Skoufa Art Gallery, Athens

2009 / C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

2008 / “Allegories”, Athens Art Gallery

 GROUP

2024 / "Black humor", Sianti Gallery, Athens

2024 / ART ATHINA 2024, Zappeion Megaron

2024 / "Return to Fanari", Nowstalgism group, old Primary School of Fanari, Karditsa

2023 / ART ATHINA 2023, Zappeion Megaron

2023 / ART KARLSRUHE 2023, Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 / ART ATHINA 2022, Zappeion Megaron

2022 / "Don Quixote: Acrobatics in the Paradox", G. & E. Vatis Art Gallery, Syros

2021 / "Reality check", StandinLine Art Space, Nicosia

2021 /"Trajectories of memory", Kydonieos Foundation, Andros, curated by Athena Schina

2020 / "From the side of the wise and the mad" (tribute to Theophilos), Museum of the City of Volos, curated by Iris Kritikos

2020 / "White chapel", Municipal Art Gallery of Mykonos, curated by Iris Kritikou

2020 / "The Island", Deximi Art Shop, Astypalea, curated by Ira Papapostolou

2019 / ART THESSALONIKI, Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti 7/2019 ART ATHINA 2019, Skoufa Gallery, Zappeion Megaron

2018 / "MARIA CALLAS, eternal source of inspiration", Eugenides Foundation, curated by Liana Skourli

2018 / "Grayscale", Artist Circle DL

2018 / "The spell of the butterfly", tribute to Federico García Lorca, IANOS Art Gallery, curated by Iris Kritikou

2018 / "Excavation in Athens", Ena contemporary gallery, curated by Nikos Vatopoulos

2017 / "3rd Prize for European Painting", Frissiras Museum

2016 / Cartasia, Biennale Internazionale della Carta, Lucca, Italy

2013 / Incidents IV – works from the collection of Anthony and Asia Hadjioannou, Art Gallery of the Cyclades, Syros

2013 / Talking of the Future, Melina Cultural Centre

2013 / Art vs. Crisis, Porta Art Gallery, Theseio, Athens, curated by Dimitra Limniati

2013 / Invisible Company – Visual Arts approaches to the poetical world of C.P. Cavafy, IANOS Art Gallery, Mehmet Ali Residence (Philippi-Thassos Festival)

2012 / The secrets of the garden, IANOS Art Gallery

2012 / 90 postcards from Smyrna, IANOS Art Gallery (Athens and Thessaloniki), Folklore Museum of Aegina

2012 / To be…, visual arts tribute to William Shakespear, IANOS Art Gallery

2012 / The truth is always irrational, a tribute to Papadiamantis, Melina Cultural Centre, Archaeological Museum of Patras

2011 / Children and adolescents / voices and whispers, Melina Cultural Centre

2011 / Survival kit, Genesis Gallery*

2010 / Human scales, Melina Cultural Centre

2010 / Tracing Istanbul, Sismanogleio, Istanbul

2010 / Johannes Gennadius, Gennadius Library

2010 / New Gazes, Atrion Gallery, Thessaloniki

2009 / It happened in Athens Melina Cultural Centre

2008 / Aegina of the painters, Melina Cultural Centre, Folklore Museum of Aegina

2008 / 12 young visual artists, AVGI newspaper, Melina Cultural Centre

2007 / The Nomads Gallery, Casa Bianca Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki

2006 / Once upon a time there was Penelope Delta…, Athens College

2006 / Same but different, Athens Art Gallery

2006 / Honours Graduates of the ASFA 2005, Foundation of the Hellenic World

2005 / European Conference on Visual Arts Education, Technopolis, Municipality of Athens, Gazi

2004 / 3rd Biennale of Students of the Greek Schools of Fine Arts, Creta Maris Hotel, Herakleion, Crete – awarded Prize

2004 / V Convegno delle Accademie del Mediterraneo –La mostra, Commenda di Prè–, Genoa

SET DESIGN

2024 / "M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A." by Lena Kitsopoulou with Maria Solomou, directed by Frosso Lytra, Mikro Horn Theater.

2016 / "The Lady of the Night" by Yiannis Maris, directed by Frosso Lytras, Kivotos and Gazarte theater.

2015 / "The Fairy" directed by Frosso Lytra, Lake Vouliagmeni

2012 / “I alli aesthese - The other sensation” by G. Evangelatos, as conceived and directed by Frosso Lytra at the Art Factory Theatre

2011 / “Auto to paidi - Cet enfant”  by Joël Pommerat, directed by Frosso Lytra at the Cultural Centre of The Foundation of the Hellenic World-10/6-15/7 & the Badminton Theatre-11/2011

ILLUSTRATION

2024 / Cover illustration "Mixed reality" by Nikos Trantas, Gondola Publications

2024 / Cover illustration "Two Whispers in the Storm" by Konstantinos Moussas, “24 letters” Publications

2024 / Illustration "An Island" by Karen Jennings, Guttenberg Publications

2023 / Cover illustration "Smyrna, time travel" by Lutz C. Kleveman, Psichogios Publications

2022 / "What remains of the night" by Ersi Sotiropoulou, Al Kotob Khan Publications, translated by Nizar Aghri

2012 / “Ta mystika tou Kipou – Secrets of the Garden” by Nikos Kipourgos , Mikri Arktos Publications

2010 / Cover for “I exelixi tou diegematos – The evolution of the short story” by Kostis Kalogroulis, Miri Arktos Publications

2004 / Catalogue cover for the European Conference on Visual Arts Education, Technopolis, Municipality of Athens, Gazi

1997 / Biology textbook for the Gymnasium for the Public Organisation for the Publication of Educational Textbooks, Athens