Nikos Kalafatis was born in Athens, in 1955. He took his first courses in sketching at the workshop of V.Vlachopoulos and obtained his degree in painting at the Academia Di Belle Arti in Florence in 1979. Later in 1991, he stood out at the exams of the greek State Scholarship Foundation and was granted a three-year scholarship in sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. He shares working and creativity life in Athens and the island of Euboea. His work has been included in several private collections within Greece and abroad.