Biography
Aimilios Metaxas is a contemporary artist born in Athens, Greece. His practice is informed by mythology, spiritual iconography, and traditions of craftsmanship, which he reinterprets through a contemporary painterly language. Working primarily in oil, Metaxas incorporates hand-embroidered peace silk, gold detailing, and gemstones into the surface of his paintings, treating materials as symbolic carriers of memory, protection, and transformation.
Rooted in Greek cultural heritage and shaped by a global perspective, his work revisits mythological figures and archetypes as psychological and emotional states rather than narrative subjects. Through layered gesture and material intervention, Metaxas creates works that function as devotional objects, occupying a space between image and relic, past and present.
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Education
2018–2020
BA (Fine Art), scholarship
NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
2022–2023
MA, Painting
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2024
Jewellery Design (Short Course)
Central Saint Martins, London, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibitions
2024
INÉ, in partnership with exhibited.at, London, United Kingdom
2021
Obsession – True and Noble, Tsichritzis Foundation for the Visual Arts, Athens, Greece
2021
Awakening Beauty, M. Anagnostakis Hall, Athens, Greece
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Ταξιμία, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2025
Beyond the Castle, Lian Gallery, Zhejiang Province, China
2025
Karl: The Art of Fashion, with exhibited.at, San Francisco, United States
2025
San Francisco Art Fair, with exhibited.at, San Francisco, United States
2025
The Blooming Dartemoor, Lian Gallery, Zhejiang Province, China
2025
Wasteland to Wonderland, T.A.F. / The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2024
Art Fair, Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum, Athens, Greece
2024
Table Fable, Salisbury House, London, United Kingdom
2024
The Power of Colour, art’otel London Hoxton, London, United Kingdom
2024
Prelude in Asylum, Asylum Chapel, London, United Kingdom
2024
Shelter, Geno Health, London, United Kingdom
2024
Happily Ever After, St. Margaret’s House, London, United Kingdom
2024
Echoes of Entanglement, L’ART, London, United Kingdom
2024
In the Emancipation of Self, D Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
2024
The Heirs of the Universe, Cornerstone Studios, London, United Kingdom
2023
A Playground for All, The Bhavan, London, United Kingdom
2023
Riposte, London, United Kingdom
2023
Utopian City, ArtSect Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023
20x20 Vision, Blue House Yard, London, United Kingdom
2020
ArtNumber 23, Athens, Greece
2019
NABA Exhibition, Milan, Italy
Publications
2025
GTP.gr
2025
Protothema.gr
2025
Exarhiotis.gr
2024
Distract TV
2023
Golden Alchemist Gallery, Hong Kong
2023
Maaspacebetween
2023
The Pluralist