Kostis Georgiou

Motion - Bronze Figurative Sculpture - Yoga - Decorative - Price for the Pair

2009-2011

Kostis Georgiou is a Greek contemporary artist and painter, born in 1956, in Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied stage scenery in Florence, painting and sculpture in the School of Fine Arts, Athens, with Dimitris Mitaras and Dimosthenis Kokinidis, as well as at the Royal College of Fine Arts, London, with Peter de Francia. His first one-man exhibition was in Thessaloniki, in 1974. Since then, his work has been represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, all over the world and won several international awards. Recently, Georgiou's works were exhibited in a five museum tour in China. His paintings and monumental sculptures can be found in public squares, sculpture gardens and numerous foundations & organizations throughout the world. He has had exhibitions at the Benakis Museum, in Athens, State Museum of Modern Art, in Thessaloniki, Bank of Piraeus, Ministry of Greek Tourism, Ministry of Greek Culture, Osaka Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, in Japan, National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Greek Postbank, Absolute Americana Museum, in Florida, Museo Civico, in Italy, Red Cross, in Cyprus, Suzhou, in China. His works can also be found in important private collections, such as the Commanderie de Peyrassol, a sculpture garden at a 1200s vineyard, in Provence, South of France.