Biography

Dimitris Yeros was born in Greece in 1948. He was one of the first artists to present Performances, Body Art, Video Art, and Mail Art in Greece.

He has had 52 individual exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions, Biennales and Triennales in many parts of the world.

He is collaborating with John Stevenson Gallery, and Throckmorton Fine Arts in New York, L.A. Gallery in Frankfurt, Vance Martin Fine Arts in San Francisco and Kapopoulos Fine Art in Athens.

Numerous works by Dimitris Yeros are to be found in many private collections, national galleries and museums worldwide.

 

At present he is working on another book with photographs on poems by C. P. CAVAFY.
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Some of the most important individual exhibitions:
1976 Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer, New York
  Schoeller, Dusseldorf, Germany
1977 Sevrugian & Bahls, Heidelberg, Germany
  Axiom, Köln, Germany
1978 Zygos, Nicosia, Cyprus
  Art Basel, Switzerland
  Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany
1979 Saalbau, Darmstand, Germany
1980 Gallerie W, Wupertal, Germany
1981 Kunoldstrasse 34 gallerie, Kasel, Germany
1982 ArtNow Gallerie, Mannheim, Germany
1984 Art Gallery, Indiana, USA
  Oxford University, Oxford, England
1986 Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1987 Axiom, Köln, Germany
1988 Luxus Berlin Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
1992 Gallerie W, Wupertal, Germany
1993 Art Now Gallerie, Mannheim, Germany
1999 Hotel de Ville, Strasbourg, France
  Art Athina, Athens, Greece
  Photography Show, New York, U.S.A
2000 MIART, Milan, Italy
2002 Kelsey Museum, Ann Arbor-Michigan

 

The following books have also been published on his work:
1976 The Sparkling Bathtub (published by Kastaniotis)
1977 Photoseries: Photopoem (published by Phyllo)
1984 Yeros with text by Yannis Patilis (published by Phorkys)
1986 Book-catalogue: Dimitris Yeros (published by The Bochum Museum)
1998 D.Yeros with an essay by Pr.Chr. Christou (published by The Prefecture of Biotia)
1998 Theory of the Nude with an introduction by Peter Weiermair Director of Rupertinum, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg, (published by Planodion)
1999 Periorasis with foreword by the author Michel Deon, Member of the French Academy and introduction by P.Devin, Director of the Centre Regional de la Photographie, France (published by Phyllo)
2000 For a Definition of the Nude with an introduction by Peter Weiermair, Director of the Rupertinum, Phyllo)
2001 The Exuberant Flowering of Dimitris Yeros with an essay by John Wood (published by the municipality of Syros - Greece)

 

The following books are available to order:
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Theory
of the Nude		 For a definition
of the NUDE		 Periorasis D.Yeros