Sotiris Sorogas

Sotiris Sorogas was born in Athens in 1936. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts on a state scholarship and graduated in 1961. In 1972, he received a one-year personal grant from the Ford Foundation. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and at international events organized by the Ministry of Culture, the National Gallery, the Pieridis Gallery, and private art venues (Tokyo, Brussels, Dublin, São Paulo, New York, Paris, Rome, Basel, etc.). He taught drawing and color at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens from 1964 to 2003 and is now an emeritus professor. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Art Association, a member of the "Group for Communication and Education in Art," and a member of the editorial board of the art theory magazine "Spires." In 2010, he participated in the founding of the "Society for the Study of Greek Culture" and in the publication of the magazine "Hermes the Scholar," where he is also a member of the Editorial Board. Studies, articles, reviews, and three monographs have been written about his painting work. His works are housed in the National Gallery of Athens, the Pieridis, Vorres, and Moschandreou Galleries, the Teloglion Foundation of Art at the University of Thessaloniki, and the Goulandris Museum in Andros. In 2004, he was awarded by the Academy of Athens for his overall artistic contribution.