Vasilis Patmios Karouk was born in Athens in 1977.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and holds a MPhil in Digital Forms of Art.

Karouk has had six solo shows in Athens and Naples and has participated in a number of group exhibitions in Greece and abroad such as: “Paratoxic Paradoxes”, The Benaki Museum, Athens / “ReMap4”, Athens / “Hell As Pavilion”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris /”The Greek Pavilion- Evil” (The Garden of Eden) Palais de Tokyo, Paris / “Others”, Fondazione Brodbeck, Riso Museo d’arte contemporanea della Sicilia / “Hotel Paradies”, Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennial / “The beautiful is just the first degree for the terrible”, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki / “Goldfish Suddenly Dead”, Extra City Centre for Contemporary Art Belgium / “Paint ID” Macedonian Museum of contemporary art, Thessalonica / “Destroy Athens”, 1st Athens Biennial / Video Zone (twist), 3d National Video Biennale Tel Aviv, Israel.