Yorgos Papageorgiou was born in Athens in 1953. He studied materials’ sciences in Montpellier and Paris and worked as a researcher in France. From 1986 to 2005 he worked in Brussels and studied in the Brussels’ School of Fine Arts (atelier Toma Roata). From 2005 to 2010 he lived in Beijing, then moved to Cairo for two years and currently is sharing his time between Brussels and Paros. Since 1998, he has exhibited his work individually in Athens, Paros, Brussels, Cairo, Beijing and Shanghai and has participated in many group exhibitions in the same cities.