Yannis Adamakos was born in Pyrgos, Ilia (Greece) in 1952. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts - ASFA (1973–1978) under the instruction of Dimitris Mytaras, Yannis Moralis, and Panayiotis Tetsis. Alongside his artistic practice, he has taught drawing and colour at the Chalkida Art Workshop and Vakalo School of Art and Design. His works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece, across Europe, and in New York. In 2008, Agra Publications released the monograph Yannis Adamakos: Painting 1977-2007. As one of the most distinguished Greek artists reinvigorating abstract painting, Yannis Adamakos creates indeterminate landscapes—reflections of the sensory world as filtered through memory. He is intrigued by the threshold between figurative and non-figurative painting, the balance between explosion and calmness, spontaneity and order, light and darkness. He is also concerned with rendering the void as something essential—the minimal that contains a richness of meaning and sensation. His work is held in major public collections, including the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, MOMus – Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, and the Bank of Greece. He lives and works in Athens and Tinos.