Markos Kampanis

Born in Athens on 22 August,1955. Studied painting from 1974 at Wimbledon School of Art and Saint Martin's School of Art in London where he lived until 1980.
While in London he attended for several months the Fine Art restoration studio of St.Mihalarias as well as the Apollo Etching Studio.
During 1983 he lived for several months in Florence, painting the landscape and studying the museums of Italy.
He mainly works as a painter, printmaker, book illustrator and church muralist, while in the past he occasionally worked as a stage designer. He is the curator of the Mount Athos Art Archives, whose main domains are contemporary art inspired by Mt. Athos and the history of religious printmaking that once flourished there. Apart from painting his interests include art history and has worked as an exhibition and catalogue curator. He is an important church muralist having executed relevant work for Mount Athos monasteries, The St Katherine monastery on Sinai and for private patrons.
His current interests are Ruins and the topography of the Odyssey.

Wimbledon School of Art.
St Martin's school of Art. BA course,painting, 1978
St Martin's school of Art. Postgraduate course, 1979

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1979,1983,1990 Cultural Centre Ora, Athens, Greece
1986 Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
1989,1993,1999,2001 Chrysothemis Gallery, Athens, Greece.
1993 Gallery K, London, UK.
1998-1999-2000 “Mount Athos Prints”, Panorama Cultural Society, Athens - French Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2007-2008 “Monoprints”, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation Bookstore, Athens and Thessaloniki Greece.
2009 “Drawings and Monoprints”, Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina, Aegina, Greece.
2009 “Mount Athos, paintings, prints, drawings, 1990-2008”, Mount Athos Center, 44th Dimitria Festival Thessaloniki, Gr.
2010-11 “Painting on Mount Athos, 1990-2008”, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens and Epirus Studies Society, Ioannina, Greece.
2011-2012 “A Museum of Trees”, Athens Art Gallery, Athens - National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation Bookstore, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2013 “365”, Athens Art Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2018, " Urban trace", Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece
2019, "Not a day without a line", ID ProjectArt, Athens, Greece
2023, Retrospective at the National Library of Greece/Niarchos Foundation, Athens
2024, Retrospective at the Teloglion Foundation for the Arts, Thessaloniki
2025, ...