Konstantinos Vyzantios was born in 1924 in Athens.

He had his first art lessons with his artist father, Pericles Vyzantios and later enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, Athens from where he graduated in 1942.

With a scholarship from the French government, he continued his studies in Paris at the Academies Julian and Grand Chaumiere. From then onwards he resided permanently in Paris and established close relationships with Alberto Giacometti, Christian Zervos, Eugene Ionesco and Dimitrios Galanis, from whom he was taught the art of engraving.

Although his early work is influenced by the teachings of his father and his teachers, he moves on to develop a personal style focusing on the human figure as well as landscape. In the early 1960s, his painting language moves into abstract art creating surfaces of monochromatic or of a restricted colour palette.

From 1975 and definitely after 1980, he returns to figurative painting, mainly still life, creating compositions with an obscure perspective suggestive of an enigmatic atmosphere. From 1985 onwards in his subject matter, we can witness the return of the human figure. To the obscure perspective and enigmatic atmosphere of his earlier period, the human figure is added, presented in peculiar poses and an awkward overall mannerism suggesting alienation and psychological anxiety.

Vyzantios presented his work in a large number of solo shows such as in 1972 at the Musee Galliera in Paris and participated in group exhibitions such as the 1959 and 1962 Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, in 1977 at ‘Mythologies Quotidiennes’, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1979 at ‘Tendances de l’Art en France 1968-1978’, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1983 at ‘Homage a Manet’, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, in 1984 at ‘Hommage a Jean Laude’, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, in 1990 at ‘Le Visage Dans l’Art Contemporain’, Musee des Jacobins, Toulouse and at ‘Couleurs de la Vie’, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Between June and September 2019, the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros staged a large-scale retrospective exhibition of the artist under the title ‘Dico Vyzantios, Abstraction and Figuration’.

His work can be found in the Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, the National Gallery, Greece, the Municipal Gallery, Athens, the Averoff Gallery, the Benaki Museum, the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros and many other public and private collections.