Chronis Botsoglou (1941-2022) was born in Thessaloniki. He studied at the Sarafianos tutorial school and attended the Athens School of Fine Arts (1960-1965), in Moralis' workshop, with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation. He was still a student when he held his first solo exhibition in Athens (1964, Center for Technological Applications), with works that revealed influences from Bouzianis. He continued his studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1969-1972, with a state scholarship). His work evolves in consecutive thematic sections, with the main characteristics being existential references, exhaustive processing of form, and the physicality of the painting material, while his paintings often coexist with sculptures. He was one of the founding members of the "New Greek Realists" group (1971-1973).

In 1989, he was elected professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he served as Rector (2001-2005) and taught until 2008. He has held more than twenty-five solo exhibitions and dozens of group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He participated in the São Paulo Biennial (1969) and the Printmaking Biennial (Heidelberg, 1988). Retrospective exhibitions of his work were presented at the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes (1986), the Vafopouleio Cultural Center (Thessaloniki, 1991), the Cycladic Art Museum (Ermoupoli, 2008), the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens, 2010), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of B. & E Goulandris Foundation (Andros, 2022). He has illustrated poetry collections and collaborated with writers and theorists, regularly publishing his own texts in art magazines. He has published three books and an album of computer-generated works (2007). In 2009, a monograph on his work was published.