SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2000         CASspace, windows. Collins St Melbourne (oil paintings and digital images.)

1999        The Surreal & Fantastic: the paintings & computer art of Demetrios Vakras. Roar Studios.               

JOINT EXHIBITIONS:

2009    -    An Umbrella and Two Surrealists. Joint exhibition with Lee-Anne Raymond.

2002     -    Amalgam. Joint exhibition with Lee-Anne Raymond at Melbourne Gallery 4Cats.

GROUP SHOWS:

2022    -    Group photographic exhibition with CCP

2004    -                Group photographic exhibition with CCP.

2002    -     Exhibition of selected oil paintings at Echo Gallery Chicago Illinois, USA.

2001    -    A selection of paintings exhibited at Mansour + Hill Gallery LaTrobe Street.

1999    -    Selected, framed, A2 computer prints at Outré Gallery, Melbourne.

1998    -    ROAR MEMBERS SHOW, Roar Studios. 28 July - 9 August.

1997     -    HANGOVER, Roar Studios. 21 January - 2 February.

1996    -    ACAF* 5, with Roar Studios. 3 -6 October. (*now the Melbourne International Art Fair).

1992-1996 -    Participated in both the CAS Annual Exhibitions & CAS Member’s Exhibitions;

1991    -    Qdos Gallery Lorne. Works from the Apocalypse Series during November & December.

1981       -    Joint Surrealist Exhibition (with Heather Robinson), Roen Art Gallery Glenroy. 15 - 26 June.

REVIEWS:

* Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc. Newsletter, May 1992: C.A.S. Exhibition -Jim Vakras, by R Suter.

* Vibe Magazine. June issue 1999: Apocalypse Now, by Tessie Virgiotis.

* Online Review by the Age citysearch:  http://www.theage.citysearch.com.au/E/E/MELBO/0005/48/62

* Digital Photography Design magazine, in the Autumn & Winter editions of 2001 as part of the "winning entries and [top] 100 images from the IDAA exhibition;

* October 2001 edition of iTgraphics magazine; 

* Portfolio Edition of Digital Publishing Design Graphics, issue #78 January 2002. 

*    "Amalgam" exhibition reviewed by Jane Canaway of the Moonee Valley Community News;

-    3-page article about the digital works by Barrie Smith, pp. 42-44 in ProPhoto : The Magazine For Imaging Professionals April 2005, Volume 61. No. 4.

BOOKS:

-    Two paintings included in Carnivora, The Dark Art of Automobiles, published January 2008, ISBN 9780979513213;

-     Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler (featuring artists of the surreal and fantastic), Gerhard Harbata, published 2009, ISBN 9783837084276