Sotiris Sorongas was born in Athens in 1936.

He attended the School of Fine Art, Athens between 1957 and 1961, studying painting in the workshop of Yiannis Moralis, on a Greek State Scholarship Foundation.

His early work reveals affinities with the politicized photorealistic tendencies that appeared during the military dictatorship in Greece (use of black and white photos, spots of red colour etc).

However, soon enough his choice of subject revolved around a poetic approach to detriment and time. His painting utilizes drawing precision in often monochromatic and fragmentary compositions, where he develops lyrical, narrative elements through a discourse between space and objects. His thematic units (Horses, Black Holes, Women Portraits, Old Pieces of Wood, Rusted Objects, Stones etc) allude to human or historical memory through images which combine perceptive observation and structural adequacy.

Since 1964 he was teaching drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Athens National Technical University. Over time he was elected a professor and held a teaching position until 2003.

He presented his work in several solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 1981 he represented Greece at the Sao Paolo Biennale and participated in the ‘Europalia’, Antwerp in 1982.

In 2004 he was awarded by the Academy of Athens for his overall contribution to art and in 2011 the Benaki Museum organized a large-scale retrospective exhibition of his work.

His works are in many private and public collections such as the National Gallery of Greece, the Averoff Gallery and the Vorres Museum.