The painter, printmaker, and mosaicist Youlika Lakeridou was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1940. She was the wife of the painter Sarantis Karavouzis.
She graduated in 1958 from the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia, having received her first painting lessons from the painters Telemachos Kanthos and Adamantios Diamantis. Immediately after, she studied for a year at Marlborough Gate College in London. In 1962, she met Sarantis Karavouzis in Athens, and a few years later, she took painting lessons from the painter Giorgos Manousakis. In 1967, she settled with Karavouzis in Paris, where she studied painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in the workshop of Ricardo Licata, while also attending classes in architecture, printmaking, and mosaic at the École Pratique des Hautes Études of the Sorbonne.
She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and the Cyprus Chamber of Fine Arts.
She presented her work in seventeen solo exhibitions (Nicosia, Athens, Ermoupoli, Paris) and participated in many group exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, and Paris (e.g., Salon des Artistes Français: 1970–honorable mention, 1971–silver medal, 1973–bronze medal, 1977–gold medal; Salon Comparaisons 1980), among others (e.g., Ravenna, Prague, Madrid, Moscow, Beijing).
Her works are located in the Museum of Modern Art in France, the National Library of France, the National Gallery in Athens, the Municipal Galleries of Nicosia, Limassol, Patras, Syros, Ptolemaida, Molyvos, Chania, and Karditsa, the “Kostas Malamos” Gallery of Graphic Arts, the Bank of Cyprus Collection, the University of Athens, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus, and in private collections in France, Cyprus, and Greece.