Hara Adamopoulou is a visual artist born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1980. In 2005, she graduated with honours from the Department of Visual and Applied Arts in the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She completed two cycles of postgraduate studies (2005–2007) in the program titled Drawing, Design and New Technologies at the Alonso Cano School of Fine Arts in the University of Granada in Spain, where she also carried out her PhD dissertation entitled The Teratological Aesthetics of Contemporary Art, funded by a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. Her dissertation was unanimously evaluated with the highest distinction “with honours” (2012). Since 2012 she lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Hara has extensive experience as an educator, having taught drawing, painting, and aesthetics, in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Theatre and Department of Visual and Applied Arts), the International Hellenic University (Department of Creative Design and Clothing), as well as in primary and secondary education.

She has attended professional development seminars and has herself conducted seminars and lectures in Higher Education. She has organized exhibitions and cultural programs featuring her students’ work, often securing external funding.

Hara Adamopoulou has an extensive artistic body of work, which she has presented in four solo exhibitions and multiple group exhibitions in Greece as well as internationally. Her artistic work has been awarded the first prize at the Biennale of Young Artists in Crete (2004), a distinction in the drawing competition of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts “Nuestra Señora de las Angustias” in Granada (2006), the second prize in the visual arts drawing competition Trazos 2007 at the Alonso Cano School of Fine Arts in Granada (2007), a distinction in the XXXIV Premio Bancaja de Pintura, Escultura y Arte Digital in Valencia (2007), a distinction in the first evaluation phase of the committee of the “International Competition of Painting Homage to Rafael Zabaleta, 2020” at the Rafael Zabaleta Museum in Jaén, Spain, and an Honorable Mention for a painting at the “XVI Prize Milagros Mir de Pintura” of the Antonia Mir Foundation in Valencia, Spain (2021).