Andreas Makariou was born in 1955 in Letymbou, Paphos. He studied monumental painting at the Surikov Academy of Fine Arts in Moscow (1975–1982). His diploma project, One Minute’s Silence, received the Academy’s First State Prize and represented the institution at the...
Eleni Nikodimou was born in 1955 in Alona and, from 1978 onward, lived and worked in Paris. She initially studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business before continuing her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris,...
Theodoulos Gregoriou was born in 1956 in Malounta. He studied painting at the Institute de Arte Plastice N. Grigorescu in Bucharest on a UNESCO scholarship, and later at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, also completing a residency at the Cité Internationale des...
Nina Iacovou was born in 1933 in Famagusta and was the first Cypriot woman to study sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the 1950s, where she trained under prominent figures of modern Greek art. Drawing inspiration from Cypriot traditional craft, she helped...
Hambis Tsangaris was born in 1947 in Kontea, Famagusta, now under Turkish occupation. He began engaging with art at an early age and held his first solo exhibition in Famagusta in 1968. In 1971, he moved to Athens at the invitation of master printmaker A. Tassos,...
