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Born in Thessaloniki in 1941, he was an Athens School of Fine Arts student (1960-1965) under the tutelage of Yannis Moralis. In 1970 he pursued his studies at the Parisian École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on a two-year scholarship. In 1989 he became a full member of the Athens School of Fine Arts faculty as professor of painting. In addition to his painting work, he is also interested in sculpting and engraving. With more than thirty solo shows and over one hundred group exhibitions in the biggest Greek cities, he has moreover exhibited abroad (France, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Spain and Israel). As of 1964 he has been associated with various political artist teams, such as ‘Art Group A’ (1960-1967), ‘the Figurative Arts Center’ (1974-1976), ‘Group for Communication and Education on the Arts’ (1976-1981). He was a founding member of the ‘New Greek Realists’ (1971-1973). In addition, he published the following books: Imerologia Taxidia (Diary Journeys, 1994), Pseudodokimia (Pseudoessays, 2000) and To chroma tis spoudis (The colour of study, 2005) including texts he wrote on the arts. In 1998 he published his poems in a collection titled Spoudi sto Mavro (Study on Black). He resides and works in Athens.

Solo Exhibitions
2013 The self-portrait of the mountain, Romanou 7 Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
2011 Chronis Botsoglou - Erotics, "The other Arcadia" Foundation, Athens, Greece
2010 Chronis Botsoglou, Retrospective, EMST, Athens, Greece
2009 Three Portraits, Gallery 24, Athens, Greece
2008 99 Images on the Computer, Metechmion Publications Gallery, Athens, Greece
2008 Chronis Botsoglou and the World of Experience, Ermoupoleia 2008, Syros, Greece
2007 99 Images on the Computer, Gallery 24, Athens, Greece
2002-3 Personal Nekyia, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2002), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, Ammohostos Gate, Nicosia, Cyprus (2003),
2002 Adios Atelier, Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
1999 The Fruits. The Faces, Ekfrasi Gallery, Glyfada, Greece
1998 Study in Solitude, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, Greece
1994 Haiku. Illustration, Gallery 24, Athens, Greece
1994 Diaries. The Faces, Angathi Gallery, Athens, Greece
1993 The Woman of Zakythos, Gallery 24, Athens, Greece
1992 Stories of an Everyday Mirror, Paratiritis Bookstore, Thessaloniki, Greece
1992 Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens , Greece
1991 Astrolavos Gallery, Piraeus, Greece
1991 Three Portraits, Gallery 24, Athens, Greece
1991 Retrospective, Vafopoulion Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
1991 The Face of Eliza, Ekfrasi Gallery, Glyfada, Greece
1988 Diary Pages, Ileana Tounta Center for Contemporary Art (Athens), Velidion Foundation, Thessaloniki, Greece
1986 Retrospective, Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, Greece
1986 Parerga [Sidelines], Chryssothemis Gallery, Halandri, Greece
1985 Athens Gallery & Galerie 3, Athens, Greece
1983 Watercolors 1961-64, Yakinthos Gallery, Kifissia, Greece
1981 Kochlias Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1980 Ora Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
1978 Ora Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
1977 Kochlias Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1975 Visual Arts Center, Athens, Greece
1972 Cité Universitaire, Maison Internationale, Paris, France
1970 Hilton Gallery, Athens, Greece
1970 Techni Artists Group, Thessaloniki, Greece
1964 Center for Technological Applications, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2013 Somatographies - Contemporary Greek Painting from the Sotiris Felios Collection, National Gallery - Alexander Soutzos Museum - Nafplion Annex, Nafplion, Greece
2012 Ellenico Plurale - Dipinti dalla Collezione Sotiris Felios, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy (curated by Giuliano Serafini)
2012 Between Reality and Fantasy- Paintings from the Sotiris Felios Collection, Giorgio de Chirico Cultural Center, Volos, Greece (curated by Irene Orati)
2011 illuminated shadows: paintings from the Sotiris Felios Collection, "The other Arcadia" Foundation, Athens & Hellenic Institute for Byzantine and Post-byzantine Studies in Venice, Italy
2010 Contemporary Greek Painting part of the Sotiris Felios Collection, Sismanoglio Megaro, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Art and Democracy. 35 Contemporary Greek Artists, Zappion, Athens, Greece (curated by Takis Mavrotas)
2009 Watercolors of the Greek Landscape, Contemporary Balkan Art Gallery, Lemnos, Greece (curated by Iris Kritikou)
2009 The Perspective Of Time. Pictorial Histories Paintings From The Sotiris Felios Collection, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (curated by Irene Orati)
2008 Athens Printmaking Center. The History of an Atelier, Athens, Greece
2008 Municipal Gallery, Greece (curated by Nelly Kyriazi)
2008 New Acquisitions. Representational Art. From the Collection of the National Gallery, Municipal Gallery, Patras, Greece (curated by Lina Tsikouta-Deϊmezi)
2008 Greek Painters from the National Bank Collection, National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (curated by Olga Mentzafou-Polyzou)
2007 The Alpha Bank Collection, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (curated by Irene Orati)
2007 Panorama of Greek Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (curated by Haris Kambouridis)
2006 The Great Upheaval. Five Utopias in the 1970s, Patras Cultural Capital of Europe, Greece (curated by Thanassis Moutsopoulos)
2005 Sacred and Profane. Aspects of Women in Contemporary Greek Painting, Municipal Gallery of Hania, Crete, Greece (curated by Haris Kambouridis)
2005 The Alpha Bank Collection, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (curated by Irene Orati)
2005 The Years of Defiance. Greek Art in the1970s, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (curated by Bia Papadopoulou)
1998 Three Generations of Greek Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1997 In the Beginning There was Printmaking, Rethymnon Center for Contemporary Artistic Creation, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
1996 A Tribute to Periclis Pantazis, Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece (curated by Olga Mentzafou- Polyzou)
1992 Euroamericana de Grabado 3/32, Spain
1992 Expo ’92, Seville, Spain
1992 Metamorphoses of the Modern. The Greek Experience, National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (curated by Anna Kafetsi)
1991 Printmaking Centre Group, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens, Greece
1991 Triennale Mondiale d’ Estampes Petit Format, Chammalières, France
1990 On a 1960s Trajectory: Botsoglou – Psychopedis, Kreonidis Gallery, Athens, Greece
1988 Print Biennial, Heidelberg, Germany
1986 The Face of Greek Painting, Athens Municipal Gallery, Athens, Greece
1986 Six Artists Engrave on Copper, Ora Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
1986 Art Grec: Lumière, Figure, Mythologies, Toulouse, Nantes, Ammohostos Gate, Nicosia (curated by Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan)
1985 Memories – Recreations – Quests, Athens Cultural Capital of Europe, National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece (essays by Nelly Misirli and Haris Kambouridis)
1984 Expressionism – Surrealism, Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, Greece
1982 Painting Each Other. Theofylaktopoulos – Botsoglou – Psychopedis, Galerie 3, Athens, Greece
1982 Europalia 82, Antwerp, Belgium
1982 Expressionism – Surrealism, Nees Morfes Gallery, Athens, Greece (on the occasion of the publication of the homonymous book by Eleni Vakalo)
1981 Fifteen Copperplates, Ora Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
1980 Beograd ’80, Belgrade, Serbia
1979 Contemporary Greek Painters and Printmakers, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
1979 7 Pittori Greci, Galleria II Babuino, Rome, Italy
1979 Xéme Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
1979 Za Bolisisvet, Slovens Grapec, Yugoslavia
1978 Tre Grekska Utställningar, Konstakdemien, Stockholm Zeitgenossische Griechische Malerei und Graphik, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany
1978 Seconde Rencontre Internationale d’Art Contemporaine, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1976 Panorama of Greek Painting, 1950-1975, National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens, Museum am Ostwal Dortmund, Germany
1972 Five Greek Realists, Goethe Institut, Athens, Kochlias Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1969 10th Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil
1969 Eleven Painters from Thessaloniki, Astor Gallery, Athens
1967 8th Panhellenic Exhibition, Zappeion, Athens, Greece
1966 Techni Artists Group, Thessaloniki, Greece
1965 7th Panhellenic Exhibition, Zappeion, Athens, Greece
1964 3rd Panhellenic Youth Exhibition, Athens, Greece
1962 2nd Panhellenic Youth Exhibition, Athens, Greece
1961 1st Panhellenic Youth Exhibition, Athens, Greece