Kostas Spiropoulos

After completing his medical studies at the University of Athens, Kostas Spiropoulos traveled to the United States, where he studied art at Heron Art Institute alongside Peter Richardson, who was a pop-art painter. He has participated in individual and group exhibitions in galleries in Greece and Europe, in International Artfairs and Biennales in Europe and North America. He was teaching human anatomy for artists for 8 years as an Associate Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Fine Arts in University of Ioannina and he wrote a book on the subject. His last book on art was published in 2016 and presented in Katsigra Museum in Larissa, Greece .

His portrait has been presented by the Italian Academy for Fine Arts in the Special Issue Rembrandt in 2016, commemorative of the 410 years from the birth of Rembrandt (1606-2016) as one of the most important representatives of Modern European painting.

He has participated in International Artfairs: Turkey (Istanbul 2005, 2009), Czech Republic (Praha 2005), Austria (Insbruck 2009), Greece (Athens 2010), Italy (Florence 2006, Verona 2013, Piacenza 2016), Azerbaijan (Kabala 2015), France (Paris 2016), Canada (Vancouver 2016). He has demonstrated his work in Internatioan Biennales: Czech Republic (Plzen 2006, 2008), Italy (Azzolo 2010, Palermo 2013), China (Beijing 2017) and he has received award in two of these.

In 1990 he was elected as Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Medicine in the Department of Medicine, University of Patras. He became Professor of Pulmonary Medicine in 2005 and Director of the Dept of Pulmonary Medicine of the University Hospital of Patras. He is a member of the Hellenic Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ERS). His main research interests include sleep disorders, lung cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

Apart from his love for art and painting, he also wanted to become a doctor, so he studied medicine at the University of Athens. He finished his specialty training in 1982 in Athens Chest Hospital “Sotiria” and in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Navy Hospital in Athens. He completed his PhD thesis in the Department of Medicine, University of Athens. He worked at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine in Riley Hospital for children Indiana, USA. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, USA. He worked as an associate in Brompton Hospital and the London Chest Hospital in London .

Kostas Spiropoulos (Greek: Κώστας Σπυρόπουλος ; born 28 August 1952) is a Greek painter and doctor. Since the 2000s he has become a leading figure in the pop art movement in Greece.