The painter and engraver Antonis Apergis was born in Athens in 1938 and passed away in 2018.
He studied painting and printmaking at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1958–1962) under Yiannis Moralis and Konstantinos Grammatopoulos, supported by a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). With a subsequent scholarship, he continued his studies in mosaic and fresco at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1966–1970).
Since 1960, his work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions of painting and printmaking both in Greece and abroad, in cities such as Rome, Beirut, Paris, and Chicago.
Alongside his artistic career, he taught painting for many years at Schools of Graphic Arts and at the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, while also engaging in scenography and illustration.
In addition to the Teloglion Foundation of Art, his works can be found in the National Gallery of Greece, the Bank of Greece, the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros, the Vorres Museum, the collection of the Ministry of Culture, the Kotopouli Museum, the Municipal Gallery of Kalamata, as well as in public and private collections in Greece and abroad.