Sofia Petropoulou
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Sofia Petropoulou | |
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(Greek: Σοφία Πετροπούλου) | |
| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Alma mater | University of Exeter |
Sofia Petropoulou (Greek: Σοφία Πετροπούλου; born 1964[1]) is a Greek painter based in Athens.[2] She has been acknowledged for the merging of realism and abstraction in her paintings.[3]
She was born in Greece in 1964. After finishing school she studied in the University of Exeter in England where she obtained a master's degree in sociology of education. Later she moved to Luxembourg, where she lived for nine years before returning to Greece.[1] Petropoulou has shown her work in 12 individual and 15 group exhibitions in Greece, Luxembourg, Belgium, Cyprus and the United Kingdom. Her artworks have been sold in auction in auction houses including Christie's and Piasa in London and France respectively[4] and they belong to private and public collections such as the collection of the King George Hotel in Athens.[5]
She is a member of Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.[6]