Artist’s CV
Achilleas Droungas was born in 1940 in Piraeus.
He studied Printmaking and Set Design at the School of Fine Arts in Athens from 1958 to 1965.
In 1970, with a State Scholarship, he continued his studies at the Slade school of Fine Art in London.
With state scholarships he studied in 1966 the folk houses and traditional costumes of Western Macedonia and in 1970 he went to London, where he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art until 1973 under Alfred Gross and B. Dos Santos. With scholarships, moreover, from the Ford Foundation, he stayed in 1976 and 1977 in the USA, where he studied lithography techniques at universities and laboratories, such as the Tamarind Institute. He presented his work for the first time in Athens in 1974. However, since 1965 he has participated in a series of group exhibitions both in Greece and abroad.
As an engraver he took part in the most important international exhibitions from 1967-1976.
His works have been published by Christie’s Contemporary Art, London, Editions Alecto, London, International Graphic Art Society, New York, Redferri gallery, London, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.
His engravings are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, National Museum of Wales, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and other public and private collections in Europe and the USA.
He has received a Ford Foundation scholarship twice.
His work moves in the area of postmodern trends and balances between critical and excessive realism framed by the optical illusion technique.
In 1974 he began to deal exclusively with painting and in 1978 he had his first solo exhibition at the Zoumboulaki Gallery in Athens.
Since then he has exhibited painting in various Galleries in Europe and America.
In 1982 he painted a 45 meter Mural for the Atheneum Intercontinental Hotel in Athens.
His works can be found in Greece in the National Gallery of Athens, the Vorre Museum, the Pieridis Gallery and in public and private collections around the world.
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