Ioannis was born in Athens in 1978. His studies were entire in Great Britain. There, he gained a BA Honors in Fine Arts (Time Based Media and Digital Art) and a Masters in Arts and Design (Animation). He received a teaching degree in arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Ioannis’s next step was to teach as a Lecturer in the Visual Communication Department at Raffles Education Corporation Singapore, Raffles LaSalle Institute in China – Canton). His writing work focuses on gathering, recording, and reviving Greek and Chinese myths. His first bilingual book entitled “Cultural Traveling between Greece and China” was published in China in 2007 and received significant distinctions and awards, while in 2010 it was translated into Greek.

In 2014 he had the inspiration to create the “Stathoyiannis Is& Zhu of 200 experiential art pillows and 15 collections. The presentation of this project to the audience became in 2021 into a controversial solo exhibition with the title  “Stathoyiannis collection narrations and dialogue 21 plus 8 artists”, transforming a Cretan hotel into a living contemporary art space. The basic idea of this exhibition was the artistic dialogue between the art pillows and the original works of the participating artists

Ioannis has collaborated with noteworthy corporations active in the field of Art and Culture, Advertising, Communication and Fashion. He has worked on studies for University Research Institute of Mental Health, Army Geographical Services and several Municipalities. He has implemented educational programs for the child, studies and proposals for Digital Technology, Animation and Virtual Reality, in Greece and abroad. He is an active  member of the Art Chamber of Greece, the Hellenic Chinese Chamber of Greece, the Union of Graphic Artists of Greece, the Association “Friends of Mycenae and Mycenaean Culture”.

Currently Ioannis works for the  Greek Ministry of Education as an art teacher in public schools and in the meantime he is a Phd candidate in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication of the Aegean University. His thesis deals with “The Monkey King” a cultural expression of China, a cultural continuity and discontinuity in traditional and modern design and animation”.