About

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).

Contact: spyrosverykios@gmail.com

Education

Solo exhibitions

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