The painter Sotiris Sorogas was born in Athens in 1936.
With a state scholarship, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yiannis Moralis, Pantelis Prevelakis, and Pavlos Mylonas (1955-1961). During the summer recesses of his studies, holding scholarships from the National Royal Foundation and the Byzantine and Christian Museum, he studied Byzantine and folk art by copying works in Pelion, Mytilene, and Crete. In 1963, he attended hagiography classes at the ‘Applied Workshop of Portable Icons’ at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Konstantinos Georgakopoulos.
In 1972, he was awarded a personal grant by the Ford Foundation, under which he traveled to Milan, Paris, London, New York, and Chicago, studying contemporary art movements.
In 1964, the painter and professor Takis Marthas selected him as an assistant at the Chair of Painting of the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, where he taught drawing and color until 2003, when he retired with the rank of professor.
In 2004, the Academy of Athens presented him with an award for his overall artistic contribution.
He was a founding member of the “Association of Contemporary Art,” a member of the “Group for Communication and Education in Art,” and a member of the editorial board of the art theory magazine Speira.
In 2010, he participated in the founding of the Society for the Study of Greek Culture, while also serving on the Editorial Board for the publication of the journal ‘Ermis o Logios’.
He illustrated books, school textbooks, leaflets, and magazines.
He authored two books: ”Margins: References to Problems of the Visual Space” (1992) and “Aesthetic Geography: Critical Interventions” (2006).
He held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 2018, a solo exhibition of his work took place at the Teloglion Foundation of Art. He represented Greece at the São Paulo Biennial (1981), Europalia (1982), and the International Painting Festival of Cagnes-sur-Mer (1989).
His works are included in the collections of many museums and cultural institutions, as well as in numerous private collections.