Demetrios Papakostas is a Canadian painter who creates paintings characterized by his passion for bold technical investigation, colour spatiality and conceptual perception.

His work is his response and need to communicate insights into our journey through life and the issues we face as we take that voyage.

Papakostas focuses on questions of religion, spirituality, purpose and the ultimate mystery of the afterlife, exploring how it manifests in our daily lives through the subtleties of the relationship between abstract thinking and the characteristic of his deeply held conviction that art must speak from, and to, the heart, mind and soul.

Born in 1960 in Montreal, Canada, Demetrios is mostly self-taught. Demetrios studied portrait drawing, watercolour and abstraction at the Visual Arts Center in Montreal with Nicole Lebel, Heather Yamada, and prominent Canadian painter Harold Klunder, as well as at the University of Concordia night art school.

Papakostas is a current member of GeoForm ( www.geoform.com ) a website dedicated to prominent artists working primarily in geometric abstraction and color field work.

In addition to his painting practice, Demetrios is also the founder and director of GalerieErga, a rental gallery space where he manages and curates regular art exhibitions. Papakostas is also the founder and director of Art Sur Papier, an annual art exhibition dedicated solely to works using paper.  

Recently, Papakostas collaborated with Gianni Giuliano, to organize and curate the group exhibition titled “diver(s)gence” his first curatorial project, and something which he considers to be an important accomplishment as he strives to continue to look to take on new roles and new challenges.

Demetrios has been participated in exhibitions since 2003 at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount, Galerie Espace, Galerie E.K. Voland, Galerie Beaux Arts des Ameriques, Galerie Erga and Galerie de la Ville, McBride Contemporain, Archive Contemporain in Montreal and Art Zone 42 Gallery in Athens, Greece. Papakostas is presently exhibiting with 1515 Lincoln Gallery in Oklahoma City, USA.

 His work is in the collections of several businesses, corporations and private homes.

 Papakostas is represented by 1515 Lincoln Gallery in Oklahoma City, USA and Denison Gallery in Toronto, Canada.