Born in Indianapolis, IN, 1922, Garo E. Antreasian earned a BFA from the John Herron School of Art and is a master printer who founded the Tamarind Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he lives and works. He is represented by the Fenix Gallery, Taos, NM.
Recent one-person exhibitions include New Mexico State University; Mitchell Museum, IL; A 50 Year Retrospective, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Retrospective, University of Arizona Art Museum; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum; and the Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions have included Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena; Prints from the Tandem Press, Pace Gallery, New York; Color in American Printmaking, Amon Carter Museum; Five Armenian West Coast Artists, Fresno Art Center; and the United States section at the Venice Biennale. Antreasian's work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Art Institute of Chicago; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Museum of Modern Art. Publications by and about Mr. Antreasian include the seminal text on lithography, The Tamarind Book of Lithography; a catalogue, The Works of Juergen Strunck (NA); an article, Some Thoughts About Print Publications, College Art Journal; and an article on his workshop Tamarind Papers by Hullmandel and Nardini. Mr. Anteasian is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship; Fulbright Scholarship, Brazil; an Honorary DFA from Purdue University; and became Printer Emeritus, Southern Graphics Council, 1994.
