Alekos Kyrarinis was born in Athens in 1976 and grew up in his ancestral home, Tinos. He worked with his father, the marble sculptor Yannis Kyrarinis, from the age of eleven until he was admitted to the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2003, under the guidance of Yannis Psychopedis. His work includes painting, drawing, three-dimensional constructions, sculpture, and illustrations for publications. Starting from his early experience and influences, such as the symbols of Orthodox Byzantine iconography and folk tradition, he creates images with distinct references to abstract modernism. He seeks locality and authenticity through archetypal, universal, and timeless symbols. His works, whether geometric in structure or freeform, are shaped as palimpsests of formations with intertextual, intergenerational, and intercultural associations. He has illustrated more than ten books and periodicals and collaborates with the Frear magazine and the cultural space Baumstrasse. He has also published a short essay on painting entitled The Questions of Nefeli (Athens, 2011, published by Mikros Astrolavos/Efthini). He has held twenty-two solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions. As part of the Visibilium et invisibilium exhibition at CITRONNE Gallery (2021), he presented the work A Child’s Ison, a video piece with music composed by Giorgos Koumentakis.