About the artist
Konstantinos Papamichalopoulos is a Greek artist, printmaker and Assistant Professor at the School of Fine Arts, University of Ioannina, where he teaches printmaking, illustration and visual narrative.
He studied Painting and Printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts and received an MA in Digital Art Forms from the same institution. In 2021 he completed his PhD at Panteion University, examining the persistence and transformation of linear perspective within the visual language of videogames.
His artistic practice moves between printmaking, painting, drawing, artists’ books, comics and digital media. Central to his work is an investigation of how images are transmitted and transformed across different historical periods, cultures and technologies. Greek and Byzantine visual traditions intersect with Japanese art, comics, manga and videogames, while processes such as woodcut, linocut, intaglio, drawing and painting are placed in dialogue with contemporary forms of image production.
Papamichalopoulos has presented his work extensively in Greece and internationally through solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and institutional projects. His work has been exhibited at major cultural institutions including the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, the Archaeological Museum of Tinos and the Vorres Museum, alongside numerous galleries, museums and other exhibition venues in Greece and abroad.
Alongside his studio practice, he has maintained a long involvement with comics, publishing and editorial illustration. His graphic works and books include The Jap, The Japanese – Deuteronomion, Epilarchia!, The Japanese 3 and Talos. For thirteen years he created covers for the Athens Review of Books, while his illustration work has appeared in publications including De Groene Amsterdammer, To Vima and Eleftherotypia. A portrait of Antonis Benakis commissioned by the Benaki Museum entered the Museum’s permanent collection in 2004.
His current artistic and academic research focuses on expanded printmaking, artists’ books and visual narrative, with particular emphasis on the migration of images between analogue and digital media and between historical and contemporary visual cultures.