Artist’s CV
Sarantis Karavouzis was born in Athens in 1938. From 1969 to 1963 he studied painting with G. Moralis at the Academy of Fine Arts, while also studying the art of mural painting. In 1964 he traveled to Greece to study Greek art, following a scholarship he won for his sets for the People’s Ballet of the State Theater of Northern Greece. In 1966 he taught design at the Centers of Technological Applications in Athens, while a year later he left Greece to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with a scholarship from the French Government. There he engaged in engraving, while at the same time he also attended theoretical courses at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Louvre School.
At the end of the 60’s he worked with engraving, first with wood engraving, then with copper engraving and after 1978 with lithography. For his artistic work he has been awarded the Drouant-Cartier prize. He is a member of the Chamber of Visual Arts of Greece and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
He presented his work for the first time in a solo exhibition in Greece in 1971 at the “Hora” Gallery, and many solo exhibitions followed both in Greece and abroad. Also, he has a large participation in group exhibitions both inside and outside the borders.
His works belong to the National Gallery, the Averof Gallery, the Kouvoutsakis Gallery, the B. and E. Goulandris Museum in Andros, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, etc.
