“I overlay the natural imagery I take from forests with cell imagery from labs, as a way of drawing comparisons between those life forms,”
Costas Picadas was born in Ioannina Greece. He studied art at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts and art history at the Louvre School in Paris. Picadas’ work has been exhibited at Queens Museum- Bulova NY, Paris Kohn Gallery NY, Denise Bibro Gallery NY, The Blender Gallery Athens Greece,Donopoulos Gallery GR, Gallery Gransart Paris, Mykonos Biennale Greece, The Young Art Fair in Switzerland, Gallery J&J Donguy Paris, Some Young New Yorkers III at PS1 NY, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, Gallery de Buci Paris, Gallery Anatole Chartres, France, Gallery de Nest Paris, Salon de Montrouge, Paris, W.G. Amsterdam, Holland, and the Festival of Avignon, France. Articles, reviews and critical analysis of Picadas’ work appear in solo and group show catalogues in addition to newspapers and magazines in France, Greece and New York, such as Zing Magazine, Absolute Arts, New York Spaces, White hot, Flash Art and more . Since 1994 he has been living and working in New York City.