Leontios Toumpouris (b. Nicosia, 1982) is an artist currently based in Nicosia. 

In 2016 he graduated from Glasgow School of Art’s MLitt Sculpture and from the Painting department of Athens School of Fine Arts in 2009. He exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions and participated in residencies and workshops in Europe. 

Toumpouris constructs linguistic speculations and instances of interaction through fiction and relationality. He draws from painting, alchemical discourse and making to configure his work in sculpture, site-responsive installations, text, sound, moving image and performative gestures. Clay’s fragility, porous state and tactility allow him to develop narratives of interplay in which matter and bodies correlate in various degrees. By creating circumstances of shared agency and initiating dialogue, he engages with the public through collaborations with organisations to produce projects and events that encompass talks, screenings and workshops. 

Recent solo exhibitions and projects include: Briefly eternal, Art-o-rama, Marseille, FR (2022), Reconfiguring motions, Korai, Nicosia, CY (2022), Palimpsest of voices, Glasgow International (2021), SOM, eins gallery, Limassol, CY (2020), Relations reversed, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, CY (2019) accompanied by two parallel events, Of particular images, Intermedia gallery, CCA, Glasgow, UK (2019) accompanied by three events, Phyle, Custom Lane, Edinburgh, curated by Eoin Dara (2018) and Suggestions and Encounters: Physical or Otherwise, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow, UK, curated by Seán Elder (2018). 

Group exhibitions include: Craftland, Anassa Hotel, Paphos, CY, curated by Christos Kyriakides (2022), It moves and it shouts, Haus N, Athens, GR, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos (2019), Hypersurfacing, NiMAC, Nicosia, CY, curated by Marina Christodoulidou (2019), Phase 2, Drive Drive, Nicosia, CY (2018), Home Of Multiple Occupancy, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2018) and Impulses of inalienability, eins gallery, Limassol, CY (2018). 

Toumpouris has been awarded grants by: Glasgow Connected Arts Network (2020), Creative Scotland (2020), the Cultural Services of Cyprus’ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth (2019), the Eaton Fund (2018), the Hope Scott Trust (2017) and AG Leventis Foundation (2015) amongst others.

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Press Links:

– The Steidz: Art-o-rama: 10 Emerging artists to discover, August 2022
– “Η Καθημερινή” (Cypriot newspaper): Όταν το παραδοσιακό χειροτέχνημα γίνεται σύγχρονο έργο τέχνης by Apostolos Kouroupakis, August 2022
– Daily Lazy review of Palimpsest of voices by Andrés Valtierra, August 2021
– Glasgow International: a-n members in view by Jack Hutchinson, August 2021
– “Χάρτης” (Greek journal): Η Κύπρος και τα σπίτια της Τέχνης by Savvas Christodoulides, February 2021
– “Η Καθημερινή” (Cypriot newspaper): Οι τέχνες θα ανθίσουν και θα φέρουν κι άλλο by Apostolos Kouroupakis, May 2020
– Between Cavities, Hard as Flesh, On the Work of Leontios Toumpouris by Eoin Dara, November 2019
a-n review of Of Particular images by Tommaso Ranfagni, March 2019