Boat in Danube Painting

Nectarios Stamatopoulos (b.1976) is a visual artist based in Athens Greece. His artistic practice explores mainly drawing in its various forms and his work has been exhibited in museums, institutions and galleries worldwide in venues such as Tate Gallery, Royal Scottish Academy, National Galleries of Scotland, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Ulster Academy, Royal Cambrian Academy, Newly Art Gallery, Derby Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Reece Museum ETSU, Ray Johnson Estate (USA), Karuizawa New Art Museum (Japan), Reykjavík Art Museum (Island), Benaki Museum, NEON Organization, Institut Français d'Athènes, TEDxAcademy and others. He has been an artist in residence at the Royal West of England Academy presenting there his specially commissioned ''I am not here'' project for the Drawing Lab, part of RWA / Drawn exhibition 2017. His work has also been selected for inclusion in exhibitions by Art Societies like the Society of Scottish Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, and he has been shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize 2022. Works are held in the collection of various museums and libraries worldwide most notably MoMA Library, Tate Library, Ray Johnson Estate and in many private collections including the collections of Sir Richard Heaton KCB, Sir Paul Smith and others. He has contributed work for various charity events and auctions like Edinburgh Macmillan Art Show, National Brain Appeal, The Strokes Association, Hospital Rooms, Visual Aids NY and TedxAcademy. .