Woozy (b. 1979, Athens, Greece) graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010. Shortly after, in 2011, he presented his first solo exhibition in London (Lazaridis gallery). Starting his artistic activity as a muralist and progressively moving into paintings, land-art sculptures and installation work, Vaggelis has been commissioned by many Greek Institutions including the Social Institution Alexander, Onassis Cultural Centre, the Athens Concert Hall, the Costopoulos Foundation, the French Institute. He has also curated the project Chromopolis for the Olympic Games of 2004. His murals can be seen in many cities around the world including London, Shenzhen, Lisbon, Berlin, Paris.

Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
2022 “After Midnight” Nous restaurant, Athens Greece
2020 “We Are Many But Scattered,” Curator: Katerina Nikou, Neos Kosmos Project Space, Athens Greece
2016 “Polaris,” Tart gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 “I Hope For Nothing,” Octopus project space, Berlin, Germany
2016 “Metropolitani Indiani,” Sarri 12, Athens, Greece
2016 “Closer To Nebula,” Rocabella, Mykonos, Greece
2015 “Colourful Travellers,” Grecotel, Athens, Greece
2011 “I Don’t Care About My Face,” Outsider’s gallery, London, UK
2007 “Façade En Fête,” Celebration of the 100 years of Institut Français de Grèce, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions
2023 “A / TYPICAL NOW,” curated: Sozita Goudouna, The opening gallery, Tribecca, New York
2022 “The October Show,” Curated: Alia Tsagaki, IFAC Gallery, Athens, Greece
2022 “Ceramic Art And Painting” Moncoin studio, Athens, Greece
2021 “Show Time,” Athanasiadou Gallery, Paros island, Greece
2018 “Walls And Streets,” Alibi Gallery, Sarri 12, Athens, Greece
2018 “Acropolis At The Bottom,” Curator: Katerina Nikou, A.S.F.A. Nikos Kessanlis, Athens, Greece
2017 “Amola Caluba,” Alibi Gallery, Sarri 12, Athens, Greece
2017 “Athens And Its Periphery In Regard To Contemporary Painting,” The Breeder Gallery, Greece
2017 “Build Your Own House,” Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2017 “Nowhereland,” Gallery Utopia, Athens, Greece
2017 “Lost And Found,” Float Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 “Platform Projects Athens Remote Control,” IFAC Gallery, Athens, Greece
2017 “DaDa Da Academy: Present (Metaxy Mas Chapter 1),” IFAC Gallery, Athens, Greece
2015 “Affordable Art Fair,” Blender Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014 “Woozy-x-John-Dolan,” The Howard Griffin Gallery, London, UK
2014 “Mayday,” Lazy days, Athens, Greece
2013 “Thrills-And-Chills,” Can Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013 “DaDa Da Academy,” Art Athina, Athens, Greece
2012 “Blue Hotel,” DaDaDa Academy, Camp, Athens, Greece
2012 “A1,” RVCA, Athens, Greece
2011 “Tabularasa,” 7 days 7 openings, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2011 “Underworld,” Scheublein + Bak, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 “The Forgotten Bar,” Re Map, Athens, Greece
2011 “The Beautiful Dance Of Terrible Masks And Minds,” Temporary Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2011 “The Workshops,” The Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
2011 “Dear Thick And Thin,” ME Contemporary Gallery, Copenhagen
2010 “No Money Just Honey,” Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
2010 “About Love,” 6 Dogs Gallery - Konteiner Project, Athens, Greece
2009 “Urban Art II,” Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2008 “Urban Art I,” Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2007 Urban Legends,” 12th National Comics Festival of Babel, Athens, Greece
2003 “Neverending Story,” Goethe Institute, Athens, Greece
2003 “Cosmos, A Sea Of Art,” 11th Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists, Athens
2003 “Far Away Journeys,” Babel, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2002 “The Other Half Of Heaven,” Babel, Technopolis, Athens, Greece

Artist Statement
Vaggelis Choursoglou’s distinctive visual idiom interweaves personal recollections and found imagery with references to art history, street art and primitive culture in compositions that unfold into complex narratives which propel us to contemplate on the urban environment and its interrelation with the human being.
He uses color chaotically as a means of presenting current realities and their infinite possibilities and interpretations. His palettes can be bright, subdued, cool or warm, similarly to his stance over the current reality. He sees a reality that stimulates, oppresses, depresses and encourages.
He has also developed a more personal style of naïve aesthetic form yet retaining an intense expressionistic nature.
Developed through the creation of graffiti, murals, installations, paintings, sculptures, his work is eventually a ritualistic performance of synthesis of a contemporary primitive language; this is the only language for him that can express the current life.