Ilias Christopoulos was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1976. He has attended ceramic classes with Iro-Myrto Magkanari and Saimon Hill and taken ceramics courses at the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Nikaia.
Ilias collaborates with the visual arts studios of DEPA Patras, Kalamata and Kiparisia.
Since 1998 he has participated in all National Greek Exhibitions of Artistic Ceramics, and has received: 3rd honourable mention (2001), 3rd Prize (2006), second prize (2008 and 2010), and has participated in as various other exhibitions in Greece.
He has participated in seven competitive international ceramic exhibitions, as well as a group exhibition alongside four Greek ceramists in Paris.