Babis Pilarinos was born in 1966 in Zakynthos, a Greek island of Ionian Sea between Greece and Italy. He first worked as a photographer in Athens, by printing black and white photos. Afterwards, he studied Byzantine painting art and nowadays also paints orthodox churches with the Byzantine techniques. His personal work mixes the aesthetics of the iconic painting with his personal visual language, inspired by “naïve” painting and childhood tales, inspired from his own memories.
He exhibited in Zakynthos (2001, 2005), in Athens (2008) and participated in collective exhibitions in Athens, Thessalonica, Iraklio, Moscow and Strasbourg.