Born in Herakleion, Crete in 1954. He grew up in Neapolis, Crete, and in 1968 he moved to Athens and studied graphic design at the Vakalo School (1973-1977) under K Spithas, Y Valavanidis, P Tetsis and V Dimitreas.
He presented his first solo exhibition at the Medusa Art Gallery in 1985, displaying monochrome ink drawings and mixed-media works of an expressionistic mood. His next series, Magical Landscape (Medusa Art Gallery, 1988), retains the expressionism in natural landscapes which become reflections of his own inner world. The next series, De Natura (Medusa Art Gallery, 1995) is inspired by Empedocles’ text of the same title while his work acquires a more conceptual slant. The Crucifixions that came after that (Little Bookshop, Gavriilidis Publications, 1999) examine the existential question of the Crucifixion through multiple variations in terms of design and colour.
The next series, Κ(Χ)ρόνος (Medusa Art Gallery, 2001), points to the heroes of four ancient tragedies (Ajax, Philoctetes, Medea and Agamemnon) through small and large paintings, drawings and books. His more recent Oedipus: Images after the blinding (Medusa Art Gallery, 2011) comes to Oedipus and completes the cycle of tragic heroes.
His works are dominated by a symbolic rendering of the eternal struggle between light and darkness, and his style hovers between expressionism and new figuration.
He has also practised vitrotype in collaboration with the photographer N Markou, and has designed the sets for ancient tragedy productions. In 1991 he published, in collaboration with the Medusa Art Gallery, the album The Labours of Hercules and in 2001 the album Κ(Χ)ρόνος.
He has had solo exhibitions in Athens and Thessaloniki and has participated in dozens of group shows in Greece and abroad, among which: Eighty, les Peintres d΄Europe (Strasbourg, 1987); Encounters – Points - Juxtapositions (Municipal Gallery of Athens, 1988); Balkans: a zone for peace and understanding among the peoples (Bucarest, 1989); L. Kanakakis – in the dimension of time, Greek Artists, Quests 1950-2000 ( Kanakakis Municipal Gallery, Rethymnon 1998), etc. His works can be found in private and public collections in Greece and abroad.