Christos Sarakatsianos was born in Megali Gotista, Ioannina in 1937.

He had his first art lessons with icon painters Giorgos Kazakos and Panos Sarafianos. He then enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, Athens to study painting in the studio of Yiannis Moralis where he graduated in 1967. During this period, he researched extensively the Byzantine, folk and ancient Greek art.

Between 1967 and 1973 he travelled around Europe where he was acquainted with art in European Museums and the trends in contemporary European art.

Sarakatsianos works in the mediums of painting (both acrylic and oil), sculpture and printmaking. His main subject matter is the female nude figure, often incomplete or deformed, either in isolation or combined with everyday objects, often accompanied by abstract, strong geometrical elements that shape the background.

In his painting, the curved flatforms with a clear outline are filled with vivid colours whereas in his woodcuts he highlights the hard, rough but also warm quality this material can exude.

Sarakatsianos' language is formed by combining cubist, expressionist and surrealist elements with additional references to geometric abstraction and ancient vase painting. In his work, he is preoccupied with the phenomena of life, fertility and death.  

He exhibited extensively in Greece, Italy, Belgium, Australia, Germany and Cyprus. In 1986 the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros staged a large-scale exhibition of his work.

His work is found in many public and private collections, notably that of the National Gallery of Greece, the Athens Municipal Gallery, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, the Municipal Gallery of Heraklion, the Vorres Museum, the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation and the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros.