Dimitris Koukos was born in Athens in 1948. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1969 to 1974, with Nikos Nikolaou and Yannis Moralis, teachers who had an important intellectual presence in his work as well as in his life from that time on. In parallel, between 1972 to 1974, he studied scene painting under Vassilis Vassiliadis. From 1975 to 1978, he did his postgraduate studies on a scholarship granted by the EOEX at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, with Gustav Sengiers. Since 1978, he lives and works in Athens. The artist’s work can be found in private collections in the USA, France, Italy, the U.K. as well as in the National Gallery in Athens, the Pierides Art Gallery, the Vorres Museum, the Cultural Institute of the National Bank of Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education in Cyprus, the ETEBA and the National Bank of Greece. He teaches at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1983.