Elias Kafouros (b. 1978, Athens, Greece) lives and works in Athens, Greece. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, and animation at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA. Considered one of the most prominent Greek visual artists of his generation, Kafouros develops densely layered compositions that combine painting, drawing, and sculptural wall-based works into complex visual constructions. Drawing from cinema, internet culture, Renaissance painting, and Buddhist mandala structures, his works bring together multiple narratives, symbols, and visual references within saturated pictorial fields that unfold gradually through sustained viewing. Through this accumulation of imagery, his practice reflects on the excess of images and information in contemporary culture while proposing slower, meditative modes of observation. Selected exhibitions include presentations at EMST – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece; and Kydonieos Foundation, Andros, Greece, as well as solo exhibitions at Dio Horia, Athens, Greece, and Mykonos, Greece, and Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany. His work has been featured in publications including Artforum and Vitamin D2, and in 2013 he received a Fulbright Foundation Grant.