Christos GAROUFALIS was born in Agrinio, Aetoloakarnania, Greece, on 28 July 1959.

He studied drawing and painting in Athens for four years, during which he came into contact with important artists and became familiar with their work and artistic philosophies. He belongs to the generation of Greek artists who emerged in the 1990s and is associated with the neo-figurative tendency in contemporary Greek painting.

Garoufalis’s work is centred on representation, with particular emphasis on the human figure, portraiture, memory, objects and symbolic compositions. His paintings often explore the relationship between image and presence, bringing familiar forms into compositions marked by introspection, stillness and poetic atmosphere.

His artistic language is characterised by careful draughtsmanship, controlled composition and a sensitive use of colour and light. Through figures, gazes, everyday objects and recurring motifs, he creates works that combine realism with symbolic depth, inviting reflection on memory, identity and the passage of time.

Garoufalis has presented solo exhibitions in Greece, including *Portraits* at the Hellenic American Union in Athens in 1989, exhibitions at Galerie Zygos in Athens in 1990 and 1993, Argo Gallery in Athens in 1996 and 1999, Triangle Art Gallery in Kifissia in 1998, and *Vines* at the Gallery of the Port of Thessaloniki in 2000. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including presentations in Cyprus, France, England and Germany.

Since 2003, he has served as artistic director of the Artistic Workshop of Agrinio. Christos Garoufalis remains recognised as a contemporary Greek painter whose work reflects a sustained commitment to figuration, memory and the poetic possibilities of representational painting.