Painter, writer, director and stage-designer Apostolos Kilessopoulos is considered one of the most important figures in post-war contemporary art. He studied Architecture in Darmstadt, Film Direction in Athens, and Opera Stage Design in Rome. He received honorary scholarships from the Italian government and the Fulbright Foundation. He has been taking part in group exhibitions since 1964 and has held thirty-eight solo exhibitions since 1970 – seven of which were retrospectives – in Greece, France, Germany and the USA. Seven books have been published on his work, which is represented in public and private collections in Greece and abroad, and many art critics and art historians have written about his art.  Apostolos Kilessopoulos carried out an independent project at the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in 1995-96, with the support of a Fulbright Foundation grant.
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