Yorgo Alexopoulos is a New York-based artist best known for his innovative use of new media and technology in the Contemporary art and film industries. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Greek immigrant parents and spent his childhood living in both Los Angeles and Athens. He received a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 where he studied painting, film, and photography. His first solo exhibition was in 2001 at the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery in New York City and has since been exhibited in many cities including San Francisco and Los Angeles. His artistic approach is visibly informed by techniques fine-tuned throughout his ten-year career as a visual effects artist and animator in the New York motion graphics industry. Yorgo has worked on several highly acclaimed films as a visual effects supervisor including The Kid Stays in the Picture, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, and The Devil Came on Horseback. All three films were official selections at the Sundance Film Festival. His computer-animated video installations and digital artworks explore transcendental sensibilities and often blend Western and Eastern philosophical themes. Yorgo's work proposes and constantly reinvents a visual vocabulary influenced by astronomical images, religious iconography, scientific diagrams, and mythological symbolism.