The painter Lili Arlioti was born in 1908 in Athens, where she passed away in 1979. She was the daughter of General Aristotelis Vlachopoulos and the wife of the economist, banker, and government minister Karolos Arliotis.
She studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Dimitris Biskinis, as well as music at the Athens Conservatory. She subsequently pursued studies in music and art history in Lausanne.
Her work focused primarily on the human figure, heavily influenced by the movements of abstraction and expressionism, while she also painted religious scenes in the same spirit.
She was a founding member of the “Armos” artistic group (1949) and a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. A close friendship connected the couple Angelos and Leto Katakouzenos with Arlioti, who convinced them to host artworks by members of the “Armos” group in their home, so that their visiting friend, Marc Chagall, could become acquainted with their work.
She held solo exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, and at Alexander Iolas’ Gallery in New York. She participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece (e.g., Panhellenic Exhibitions 1948, 1952, 1962, 1967) and abroad (e.g., São Paulo Biennale 1957; Alexandria Biennale 1959; Pittsburgh International Exhibition 1961, 1962; Salon de l’Art Libre – Paris 1959; London, Geneva, USA, Buenos Aires).
Her artworks are held by the Ministry of Education, the National Gallery of Greece (51 works donated in 1979), the Municipal Art Galleries of Rhodes, Kalamata, and Ioannina, the Angelos & Leto Katakouzenos Foundation, as well as in private collections in Greece and internationally (London, Paris, USA).