Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki was born in Athens, Greece. From 1975 to 1980, she studied painting at the Supreme School of Fine Arts of the National Technical University of Athens, under Professor Yiannis Moralis. Meanwhile, she attended courses on fresco and icon painting. She graduated with distinction in 1980. In 1981, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs granted her a scholarship to enable her to follow a postgraduate course entitled "Perfezionamento in Storia dell' Arte Medievale e Moderna" at the University of Florence, from which she received her Ph.D. degree in 1986. Her works have been exhibited in the National Gallery in Athens, at the ASAMA Museum of the Sports Academy in Alabama, USA, in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, in the art collection of the National Bank of Greece, in the Olympic Museum of Lausanne, the UN Building in New York, in "Lamborghini Automobili" Museum in Sant' Agata Bolognese in Italy, the UNESCO collection in Paris, the Museum of Barcelona, the Vorres Museum in Athens, the Averof Museum in Metsovo, the General Bank, the Jean Todt Museum in France, at companies such as Fiat, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, as well as in numerous private collections in Greece and abroad.