Demetrios Papakostas

Demetrios Papakostas is a Canadian painter who makes abstract paintings characterized by his passion for bold technical investigation, colour spatial and perception.

His thoughtful inquiry into the subtleties of the relationship between abstract thinking and the human condition, are characteristic of his deeply held conviction that art must speak from, and to, heart, mind and soul.

Born in 1960 in Montreal, Canada, he first became interested in the arts after visiting an artist’s studio while on a family trip to Greece. The artist Tassos Loukithis, was a family friend and it was there after seeing multiple paintings and struck by the beauty of many religious icons hung up all over the artist’s studio that he decided he wanted to draw and paint.

He studied portrait drawing, watercolour and abstraction at the Visual Arts Center in Montreal with Nicole Lebel, Heather Yamada, and with prominent Canadian painter Harold Klunder, and also taking various art classes at the Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, and at the University of Concordia night art school.

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Art related

2018 La Circulaire
Cours de Serigraphe

2009 Journey into Abstraction ll (with Nicole Lebel)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2009 Abstraction - 4 day intensive workshop (with Nicole Lebel)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec Canada

2008 Journey into Abstraction I (with Nicole Lebel)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2008 Intensive workshop courses: 10 full time sessions (with Harold Klunder)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2007 Intensive workshop courses: 10 full time sessions (with Harold Klunder)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2006 Portraits (with Mary Hayes)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2005 Painting Fundamentals II (with Stewart Fletcher)
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2001 - 2005 Semi-private sessions - Mixed Media, (with Heather Yamada ) Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2000 Watercolour (with Heather Yamada)
Visual Arts Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Selected Exhibitions

2019 Sept. Galerie de la Ville, Colour Fields Forever, solo exhibition. Montreal, Que.

2019 July Galerie Erga, A Stitch in Time group exhibition, curated Jason McKechnie. Montreal, Que.

2019 Fev. Galerie Erga, Perspicacious Paintings, group exhibition, curated by Jason McKechnie. Montreal, Que.

2018 Oct. Hotel Chez Swann, Sans Compromis, solo exhibition, Montreal, Que.

2018 Apr. Galerie Erga, Estéte, Group exhibition, Montreal, Que.

2018 Jan. ArtZone42 Gallery, Once Upon a Dragon, Group Exhibition, Athens Greece

2016 Apr. Galerie Erga, Le Couleur Seule, group exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2016 Mar. Galerie Espace, Group exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2015 Apr. Galerie Espace, Kromatica solo exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2015 Feb. Galerie Luz, Group exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2015 Jan. Galerie E.K. Voland, “Warmth” group exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2014 Apr. Galerie Espace, “Unfolding” solo exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2014 Apr. Galerie E.K. Voland, ARTBOMB - Le Marche de L’Art, group exhibition, Montreal, Qc.

2014 Mar. Galerie E.K. Voland, Walt Pascoe & Demetrios Papakostas, “Lines of Inquiry”, Montreal, Qc. ...