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SOPHIA KALOGEROPOULOU (Greece, Athens b. 1946 / act: Athens) |
Sophia Kalogeropoulou was born on 8 September 1946 in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Pierce College, and went on to study Law and Political-Financial Sciences at the University of Athens. She also studied Music at the Athens Conservatory and the Studio of the Opera of Vienna, where she was a soloist from 1976 to 1977.Kalogeropoulou made her debut in painting as a self-taught artist in 1990. She has presented the following personal exhibitions: Paintings, Aenaon Art Gallery, Athens (1990); Melodramas and Operettas, Skoufa Art Gallery, Athens (1993); IF Gallery, Sweden (1994); The Best, Zoumboulakis Galleries (1995); Mylogianni Gallery, Chania, Island of Crete (1996); Ulaluma, Gallery 4, Chalkida (1998); psycHanALIMA: A Thousand and One Arabian Nights Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens (1998); Metamorphosis Gallery, Thessaloniki (2000); The Phantom of the Opera, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens (2002); Sophia, Paint me an Opera, Gina Gallery of International Naïve Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2004); Kalogeropoulou: Phantom of the Opera, CK Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus (2005); and Mythologizing, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens (2006). She has also participated in many group exhibitions, both in Greece and abroad.
Sophia Kalogeropoulou continues to live and work in Athens, and her art is represented by Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.
[Megakles Rogakos 04/2006]
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
MARKIDIS, MARIOS psycHanALIMA: A Thousand and One Arabian Nights 1998 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
CALENDAR Calendar for 2000: Proven to be Joyous 1999 Lotus Editions, Athens
BAKOUNAKIS, NIKOS Kalogeropoulou: The Phasma of the Opera 2002 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens
LYDAKIS, STELLIOS Sophia, Paint me an Opera 2004 Gina Gallery of International Naïve Art, Tel Aviv
LYDAKIS, STELLIOS / BAKOUNAKIS, NIKOS Kalogeropoulou: Phantom of the Opera 2005 C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia
