Nikolas Ventourakis is a visual artist living and working between Athens and London. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in the attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image.
Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK.
In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and a fellow in New Museum’s IDEAS CITY. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. He has exhibited among others in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf; the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18; the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale; Hors Pistes 14 at Centre Pompidou; and The Same River Twice at the Benaki Museum.
A 2020 Stavros Niarchos Artworks Fellow and a 2021 and 2023 Onassis AIR resident artist, in 2024 he was selected as the Visual Arts Fellow for the NOLA/NY ARCAthens Fellowship.
He is represented by Callirrhoë Gallery.