Verykios Spyros

Spyros Verykios was born in Greece where he lives and works. He has been teaching at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts of the Ionian University since 2005 (Assistant Professor).

Education

2004-2006 Master of Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens/Greece.
1985-1991 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens/Greece.

 Solo exhibitions

2017 Hybriden Art Space, Malmö/Sweden.
2005 Athens Art Gallery, Athens/Greece.
2002 Gallery 3, Athens/Greece.
1999 Diana Julia Gallery, Art Athina 99, Athens/Greece.
1997 Agathi Gallery, Art Athina 97, Athens/Greece.
1996 Agathi Gallery,  Athens/Greece.
1994 Ersi Gallery, Athens/Greece.

Group exhibitions

Participation in over 25 group exhibitions among which four Biennale: Biennale of  Young.
Mediterranean Artists/Spain (1991), Biennale BIG TORINO/Italy (2000), 2nd Biennale of Tunis /Tunisia (2002) and 6th Beijing Biennale /China (2015).

Curatorship

2018 Cosmonauts of Inner Space 2018, Athens/Greece, Brussels/Belgium, Tokyo/Japan.
2006 ‘Love will tear us apart’, a tribute to Joy Division, Athens/Greece.
2004 ‘Art meets Mickey’, Group exhibition of contemporary Greek artists for the 75th anniversary of Mickey Mouse in co-operation with the Greek Disney Editions, Athens/Greece.
2002 ‘Edible Art’, Athens/Greece.
2000 ‘Cinema meets art’, Athens/Greece.
1999  ‘Pornography’, Athens/Greece.

Publications

1987-2016 Writing and illustration of comics, published by the Greek magazines Parapente and Vavel.
Six (6) stories were published by BLUE magazine (Italy), Stripburger magazine (Slovenia), C’est Bon Culture (Sweden), Wormgod (Sweden), Dangerous Ink magazine (UK) and  Heavy Metal Magazine (USA).
Publication of the graphic novel ‘I don’t want to dream, I don’t want to wake up’ by Vavel editions (Greece 1999) and by CBA editions (Sweden 2017).

Bibliography

Catalog of the 2015 Beijing Biennale, Beijing /China
Catalog of the 2006 ‘Love will tear us apart’ group exhibition, Athens/Greece
Catalog of the 2005 Athens Art Gallery exhibition, Athens/Greece
Catalog of the 2004 ‘Art meets Mickey’ group exhibition, Athens/Greece
Triptych of the 2002 Gallery 3 exhibition, Athens/Greece  
Catalog of the 2002 Biennale of Tunis, Tunis/Tunisia                     
Catalog of the 1999 Diana Julia Gallery Art Athina 99 exhibition, Athens/Greece
Catalog of the 1997 Agathi Gallery Art Athina 97 exhibition, Athens/Greece
Catalog of the 1996 Agathi Gallery exhibition, Athens/Greece
Triptych of the 1994 Ersi Gallery exhibition, Athens/Greece
Catalog of the 2000 Biennale BIG TORINO, Turin/Italy
Catalog of the 1991 Biennale of  Young Mediterranean Artists, Valencia/Spain