biography

Yanos Bouzioukos was born in Athens. He studied at the Vakalo School of  Decorative Arts (1972-1975) under the tuition of the master P.Tetsis, from where he graduated with Distinction. He subsequently won a scholarship to study at Central St.Martin’s School of Art and Design in London (1975-1976) under the tuition of Anthony Attenborough and at the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, School of Art,  in Swansea, Wales (1976-1978). While professors Timothy Lewis, Marjory Walters and Ludwig Shaffrath mentored his progress, Yanos specialized and gained distinction for studies in Contemporary Glass Techniques. In 1978 Bouzioukos was awarded the Howard Martin Design Award by Lawrence Lee, Member of the Royal Academy of London. The same year he was elected a Diploma Member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers of London, which is incorporated in the Royal Charter.                      

In 1985 the French Institute of Athens, awarded Yanos Bouzioukos for his poster, designed for the European Year of Music. 

Bouzioukos lectured on Contemporary Glass Techniques at the West Glamorgan Institute, Wales, Great Britain (1979) and was Guest Lecturer at the Glass Department, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia (1991). He has earned a distinction for the quality of his work aboard (Europe and Australia) as well as in Greece.

He later taught Contemporary Glass Techniques and Stained Glass at the Vakalo School of Art and Design, Athens, Greece (1998-2001) as well as at Sydney College, in Rozelle, Sydney (2012). 

Being a member of the Chamber of  Fine Arts, Greece, he has been cited in the Dictionary of Greek Artists (Melissa Publications) volume C.

To date, he has presented his work in 9 personal and 28 group exhibitions in Greece and Abroad.