Loukas Venetoulias

Loukas Venetoulias (Greek: Λουκάς Βενετούλιας; 1930–1984) was a Greek painter.

Biography Venetoulias was born in 1930 in Thessaloniki, where he took his first painting lessons from Nikos Gavriel Pentzikis. Initially a student of medicine, he later switched to Arts and trained at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1954 to 1958) under the direction of Yannis Moralis and Spyros Papaloukas. His first solo exhibition was held in 1964. He organized about a dozen solo exhibitions in Thessaloniki and Athens and participated in various group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (US, Canada, Cyprus etc.). In 1971 he received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation. He died in 1984. Since his death, retrospective exhibitions of his works were held mainly in Thessaloniki.

Venetoulias paintings can be found at the National Gallery of Greece, the Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, the Municipal Gallery of Larissa, MOMus, the Teloglion Foundation of Arts, the Macedonian Artistic Society "Techni", the Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace and in private collections.