He studied business administration at the Athens University of Economics and Business Administration, photography at the "Focus" school, sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and graduated from the Postgraduate Program "Digital Forms of Art" at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He worked as a photographer, visual arts teacher in Primary Education and since 2017 he teaches Sculpture at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina.

"Yannis Kokkalis, this dreamy scientist, is an artist-inventor who creates a world on the borders of science and art, immersing us in the poetics of the object“.