It is a traveling exhibition where Venice is the fifth stop, followed by Istanbul in December. Its debut was at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, DC in 2022.
Petrides, born in Athens but living in New York since his childhood, describes himself as a Greek-American who’s always been interested in his heritage. His first career was on Wall Street, where he rose to be a Managing Director of an investment bank, while pursuing his passion of studying and making art part-time.
At 32 years old, he took his first art class and studied for twenty years until he decided to become a full-time artist in 2017. His creation process blends antique techniques with modern 3D printing and a software that allows him to perfect and modify facial and body features without losing days of work or wasting precious materials.