Elias Kafouros was born in Athens in 1978. He received his BFA in Painting from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2004. He lives and works in Athens. He has held solo exhibitions in Athens, Basel and Munich and has exhibited in group shows in Greece, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Cyprus. In 2012 he was included in the Phaidon Press publication, Vitamin D2– New Perspectives in Drawing. He was awarded with the Fulbright Arts Scholarship in 2013 and studied animation and silkscreen printing in the School of Visual Arts in NY for six months. Since 2015 he has been collaborating with the high fashion house, Hermes, designing scarves