Selected CV

About

Spyros Verykios is a Greek visual artist, curator and comics creator. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University.

Selected solo exhibitions / presentations

2025: Art Athina 2025 — Ersi Gallery, Zappeion Mansion, Athens
2017: I Don’t Want to Dream — Hybriden Art Space, Malmö, Sweden
2005: Athens Art Gallery, Athens
2002: Gallery 3, Athens
1999: Art Athina 1999 — Diana Yiulia Gallery, Athens
1997: Art Athina 1997 — Agathi Art Gallery, Athens
1996: Agathi Art Gallery, Athens
1994: Ersi Gallery, Athens

Selected international & group exhibitions

2025–2026: Small-Scale Paintings — Sianti Gallery, Athens
2024: Oikade: The Journey Home — Estudio Gallery, Kifissia
2024: Wow! Pow! Bam! — Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
2023–2024: Anima-I — Ersi Art Gallery, Athens
2022: 9th Beijing International Art Biennale — National Art Museum of China
2019: Man on the Moon — 50 Years After — The Project Gallery, Athens
2015: 6th Beijing International Art Biennale, China
2005: Athens Voice — Art on the Front Page — Benaki Museum, Athens
2003: The Greek Sale — Bonhams, London
2002: 2nd Tunis Biennale, Tunisia
2000: BIG Torino Biennale, Turin
1997: 10 Greek Visual Artists — Wigmore Fine Arts, London
1991: Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Valencia

Selected curatorial projects

2024: Wow! Pow! Bam! Comics and Painting: A Meeting at the End of the 20th Century
2018: Cosmonauts of Inner Space
2005: Love Will Tear Us Apart
2004: Art Meets Mickey
2001: Edible Art
2000: Cinema Meets Art

Comics & publications

1987–2016: Comics written and illustrated for Para Pente and Babel
International: Work published or reprinted in BLUE, Stripburger, C’est Bon Anthology, Wormgod, Dangerous Ink and Heavy Metal
1999 / 2017: I Don’t Want to Dream, I Don’t Want to Wake Up — Greek edition (1999); Swedish edition by CBA (2017)
2026: Original comics and cover artwork published by Athens Voice

Education

2004–2006: Master of Fine Arts (MFA), with distinction — Athens School of Fine Arts
1985–1991: Degree in Fine Arts — Painting, with distinction — Athens School of Fine Arts

Selected press & critical writing

A chronological selection is available in the Press archive.