Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 138/ΝΠΔΔ/29.06.2001

Alexandros Voutsas was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1961. He was awarded the following degrees: B.S Marketing /Management, Siena College, Loudonville , N.Y., Bachelor of Arts Photographic Illustration, and Master of Science, Printing Sciences and Management, Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T), Rochester, N.Y.

Upon returning to Greece, he worked as a freelance photographer.

In 2000, he was elected as a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff (LT) at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he teaches the elective studio course of Analog and Digital Photography.

He has held three solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows. Most recently, he exhibited in “KRIKOS 5”, held at “Elaiourgeio”, Dromonero, Chania, in June 2016, and in “Filoxenia”, at “Morfes” Gallery, Rethymno, also in June 2016.

As a speaker, he has participated in the conference “If the I became We” with a talk titled “Personal development through collectivity”, in November 2011, and in the symposium of EMPE (Hellenic Society for the Study of Cultural Diversity) on the topic “I choose to accept injustice in art, in life”, in November 2013. In May 2016, he took part in EMPE’s events titled “Otherness as a mirror of identity”, organising and coordinating talks related to the field of visual arts.

He has published two books:

• “Awaiting the Points of Encounter” (2008)

• “RODOPOU” (1993)