Vasilis Tsokopoulos studied architecture at Aristotle University in Greece. He has been painting since early childhood, taught by his painter mother. He studied under painters Kostas Loustas in Thessaloniki, and Giorgos Voyiatzis in Athens before studying painting at the Senior School of Fine Arts in Athens and at the work-shop of the painter D. Kokkinides and worked as lecturer at Akto School of Art and Design.