Thomai Kontou learned sketching from 1971 to 1978 in Athens, in the Vrassida Vlahopoulos and Theodoros Drossos ateliers. She was taught painting by Yannis Tsarouhis, while she learned the Fresco Technique by Dimitris Kostopoulos. She is continuously present in the Artistic area since 1973 with 21 individual exhibitions and has taken part in 232 group shows in Greece and abroad. She participated in 8 BIENNALES: 1996 in Belgrade, 1998 in Mexico, 1999 and 2001 in Pisa – Italy and in 2002 and 2004 in Poland, 2005 in Nikcic - Serbia and Ankara – Turkey . 2006 in Victoria – Canada, and in the 1st International SpanishFlu Mail Art Biennial in Hungary. Private collections: Greece, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil.