Sergio Gonzalez -Tornero 1927 – 2020
One of South America’s finest modern printmakers, Sergio Gonzalez-Tornero first studied art in both Chile and Brazil before finishing his education at the Slade School of Art, London (1958) and with the famous printmaker, Stanley William Hayter, at Atelier 17, in Paris (1959-1962). Several years later the artist moved to the United States.
During the past forty years, Gonzalez-Tornero’s original etchings and aquatints have been the subject of over 44 solo exhibitions in Chile, the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany and France. He has received twenty-two awards for his art, including the UNESCO prize at the International Biennial in Krakow, Poland in 1966, and the first prize at the 10th Biennial of Prints from Latin America and the Caribbean, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1993. Public Collections in France, England, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico all include examples of his etchings and engravings in their permanent collections. His art is also represented in the Metropolitan Museum the Brooklyn Museum and the New York Public Library and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gonzalez-Tornero was awarded a fellowship by the New York State Foundation for the Arts in 1987 and a grant from the Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation in 1990. He was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Boston Printmakers and the Philadelphia Print Club, and the Silvermine Guild of Artists.
