Tasos Chonias was born in 1974. He is a Greek painter whose artworks today resides in major private collections, institutions and galleries around the world. Since 2005, he has been focusing exclusively on oil paintings with themes evolving from a series of interiors, to landscapes and his most recent series of cars, painted against urban backgrounds.
Tasos started painting at a very young age; at the age of 16 he did wall paintings at commercial and non-commercial spaces and later turned to scenography, movie-poster design and conservation of old wall paintings. He has participated in important group exhibitions and held his first solo exhibition at "Agathi" Art Gallery. Today, his paintings are being auctioned at large auction houses across Europe, such as the Bonhams of London. His Interiors work is inspired by the lives of people who lived inside neoclassical buildings like the one that hosts his atelier in Kipseli. Because of his particular depiction of sun light entering the spaces, his collection of Interiors paintings is often described by art critics as presenting "the illusion of space that belongs to a different, third dimension".
Tasos has also received significant awards and prizes over the years. In 2011, he received the second place award among 5,777 contestants in a competition organized by the Saatchi Gallery of London.