About

Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos is a Greek visual artist and Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina. He lives and works between Athens, Ioannina and Folegandros. His artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, printmaking, artists’ books, comics and illustration. Drawing on Greek antiquity, Byzantine iconography, Japanese art and contemporary popular culture, his work explores the transformation and reinterpretation of images across different historical periods, cultures and media. Traditional techniques, including woodcut, etching, drypoint, egg tempera and gold leaf, occupy a central place in his practice, often entering into dialogue with contemporary forms of visual narrative.

His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and internationally, including exhibitions and artistic projects at the National Archaeological Museum, the Numismatic Museum of Athens, the Archaeological Museum of Tinos, the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina and the Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina. His works are represented in public and private collections, including the Benaki Museum, the Vorres Museum and the Municipal Art Gallery of Athens.

Alongside his studio practice, Papamichalopoulos has maintained an extensive engagement with publishing and illustration. He created covers for the Athens Review of Books for thirteen years and contributed illustrations to the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. His work in comics and independent publishing extends to limited-edition prints, artists’ books and experimental publications.

He studied painting and printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he also completed an MFA in Digital Art Forms. He received his PhD from Panteion University in 2021.

At the University of Ioannina, he teaches printmaking and develops educational and international collaborative projects exploring the relationships between traditional printmaking, contemporary visual culture, artists’ books and sequential narrative.