Fotos Dimitriou was born in Famagusta, Cyprus in 1955. From 1976 to 1983 he studied porcelain and ceramics craft at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and obtained the title of Academic Sculptor, the equivalent title of Master of Arts in other countries.
In 1995 he was awarded the third prize at the Pan-Hellenic Ceramic Exhibition and in 1999 he again received a prize at the same exhibition. In 2000, he was selected to participate in the Cairo International Ceramics Biennale and a year later, in 2001, at the Design Biennale in Saint Etienne, France.
He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus. He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Italy, Malta, Belgium, Greece, Australia, France, Germany and Egypt.
He composes his work combining different kinds of materials such as clay, glass, bronze, fiberglass and wood with originality and imagination. Through his work he depicts an open dialogue with people, birds and all kind of creatures belonging to our or to an imaginative world.
He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in Cyprus. He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Italy, Malta, Belgium, Greece, Australia, France, Germany and Egypt.
He composes his work combining different kinds of materials such as clay, glass, bronze, fiberglass and wood with originality and imagination. Through his work he depicts an open dialogue with people, birds and all kind of creatures belonging to our or to an imaginative world.

Fantasy is a main ingredient in his artwork, where fish talk to people, boats move with wheels or human feet, and plump couples spend moments of happiness in water. His boats are not regular boats. The sea moves within them. Their passengers are sometimes fish whereas sometimes the fish is the boat itself and sometimes birds travel with people. These are passengers of journeys with many messages of optimism. These subversive syntaxes and paradoxical associations in his work create a unique and distinctive dialogue; a calm communication between different creatures.
In recent years, Dimitriou has introduced industrial wire used in construction into his sculptural work, which he transforms into sculptures, especially human figures usually with colorful oversized clothes.
He deals with a variety of subjects but his main inspiration and central theme of the most of his works is the human figure and nature. There is a surrealistic atmosphere in his work that stimulates human cognizance and imagination and at the same time conveys a humoristic and sardonic tend that puzzles the viewer.
From 1983 Fotos Dimitriou lives and works in Larnaca.