Damon Arhos is an interdisciplinary visual artist and art educator who lives and works in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. A gay American of Greek descent, he creates artworks that present portraits of identity as they reflect both queer experiences and cultural dichotomies. Arhos frequently appropriates Ancient Greek art and mythology, anthropomorphic forms, and elements of LGBTQIA+ culture within repetitive and everyday visual contexts.

Arhos has exhibited work at Ortega y Gasset Projects and NOGO Arts in New York City; MassArt x SoWa in Boston, Massachusetts; Catalyst Contemporary and City Hall in Baltimore, Maryland; Art Miami and the Baltimore Fine Art Print Fair; Connersmith, DC Arts Center, Dupont Underground, IA&A at Hillyer, and the American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC; and E.A.S.T. and the People’s Gallery in Austin, Texas – among others.

A past semifinalist for The Trawick Prize, Arhos has earned residencies from the Vermont Studio Center (VSC) in Johnson; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in Amherst; VCCA le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France; and The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts on Skopelos Island, Greece. His large-scale portrait Matthew Shepard Was A Target is held on loan at the Denver, Colorado headquarters of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

His affiliations have included Seven Windows Studios, STABLE, Washington Printmakers Gallery, and DC Arts Studios in Washington, DC; as well as Art Alliance Austin, the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, and Pump Project Art Complex in Austin. He is represented by Catalyst Contemporary in Baltimore.

Arhos earned an MFA in Studio Art and a Certificate in the College Teaching of Art from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He is Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies at MICA and Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion for the College Art Association (CAA) Board of Directors. Arhos also founded QResources, an online platform offering ways to explore art + queer culture.