YIANNIS TZERMIAS was born in Heraclion, Crete in 1954. He spent his childhood in Neapoli and came to Athens in 1972. From 1973 to 1977 he studied Graphic Art at the Vacalo School.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 1985-86 Medusa Art Gallery, Athens 1988 "A Magical Landscape", Medusa Art Gallery, Athens 1995 "On Nature", Medusa Art Gallery, Athens 1995 "On Nature", Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki 1999 "Crucifixes, The small Library, Gavriilidies, Athens 1999 "15", Terracotta Gallery, Thessaloniki 2000 Medusa Art Gallery, Athens

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1973 Pancretan Exhibition 1975 Meeting of Cretan Artists, Heraclion, Crete 1986 "Visual Action I-II", Kallidromio Gallery, Athens 1986 "First Document", Gallery F and Vafopoulio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki 1988 "Meetings - points - juxtapositions", Athens Municipal Art Gallery, Athens 1988 "Artists from Europe", Exhibition with 4 artists, Strassburg 1989 Balcan Biennale, Bucharest 1989 "17+1 colleagues" Medusa Art Gallery, Athens 1989 "Table", Athens Municipal Gallery 1990 "With Reference to Bouziani", Athens Municipal Gallery 1991 Exhibition in the Municipality of BOUSSY-ST ANTOINE, Paris 1991 "Artists from Neapoli, Neapoli, Crete 1993 "Seascape", Nees Morphes Gallery, Athens 1994 "The Loss of Form in Space", Nees Morphes Gallery, Athens 1994 "Passions", Warehouse of the Hellenic Rail Organization 1994 "Ephemeral", House of Cyprus 1995 Presentation of 12 pictures for N. Petropoulos book, Agathi Gallery 1998 "With the Lyre and the Fiddlebow. Memories and Contemporary Creation", Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art 1999 "Crossroads of Crete, Tzamia - Crystalla Gallery.