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b. 1984 -

Woozy is the tag of renowned Greek street artist/ muralist Vaggelis Hoursoglou (born 1984 ). He has been painting large-scale murals for nearly 20 years in a number of countries around the world.[1][2] His work has been a crucial aspect in the graffiti scene in Greece.[3][4]


Vaggelis was born in 1974 in Athens-Greece, where he now lives and works. In 2004 he began his studies at the School of Fine Art in Athens, which he completed in 2010. During that period he spent a year at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon-Portugal as part of an exchange program.[5] Since the completion of his studies, Vaggelis has worked on both commissioned and self-initiated projects in many countries around the world, including Denmark, Switzerland, China and Brazil.[6] He has collaborated with numerous renowned street artists such as Blu, Loomit, Nunca, Ces and exhibited his work in various festivals including Chromopolis in Athens and the 2010 Mural exhibition in China.[7] Using an ample colour palette, Vaggelis does not limit himself to one type of medium but rather, experiments with different textures and techniques.[8][9]
Large scale work


Vaggelis's home town Athens, is where his countless signatures, small and large-scale murals, cover walls in many parts of the city.[10]

He began in 2005, with a 6 x 25m mural named My Neighbourhood, part of a collaboration project with his friends and fellow street artists Os Gemeos.[11] Five years later Woozy painted a massive 25 x 15m wall at the most central part of Athens, outside the Monastiraki metro station. Titled as The Colorful Warrior this piece was done as part of a reconstruction pilot program. Along with Colorful Tsunami, a 20 x 12m mural in central Athens, they remain some of Woozy’s most renowned murals in the capital.[12] In 2011 his work was featured at the Athens Concert Hall, with his commissioned piece Music For Your Eyes.[13]
Woozy, Path of silk, 2010, Shenzhen

Portugal

Three years after his exchange program in Lisbon, Vaggelis revisited Portugal to collaborate with graffiti artist KEZ. They painted on dolosse, of the São Miguel island harbour[14] and later on, in 2012 he did a piece titled Tropical Surprise, on an 18 x 6 m wall at a private home.

London

At his first solo show in London I Don’t Care About My Face (part of Steve Lazaride’s London project “The Dungeon”), he exhibited a collection of paintings on canvas.[15] As part of the same project he was commissioned to do a mural on a 6 x 25m wall at Brick Lane, titled My Tribe.[16]

China

In 2010, Vaggelis travelled to Shenzhen-China for the international Mural Exhibition, where he painted on the Dafen Art Museum wall an 8 x 13m mural entitled Path Of Silk.[17][18] In 2011 he revisited Shenzhen, this time creating an even larger mural Ornithes covering an 8 x 24m wall of the OCT-LOFT Art Centre.[19] Both projects were organised by URBANUS architecture team.