John Torreano was born on 1941 and is an American artist from Michigan.
11 Facts About John Torreano
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John Torreano is currently clinical professor of studio art at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.
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John Francis Torreano was born in Flint, Michigan, United States in 1941.
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John Torreano earned his BFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1963.
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John Torreano received his MFA from Ohio State University in 1967.
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John Torreano is currently director of the MFA in Studio Art Program.
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John Torreano has worked in a variety of mediums and methods including paint, sculpture, relief, furniture and hand-blown glass.
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John Torreano's works have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, and many others.
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John Torreano grew up in a large Catholic family and spent much of his youth as an altar boy.
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In 1972, as an artist in residence at the Art Institute of Chicago, John Torreano first began integrating gems into his paintings.
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John Torreano uses the gem to bring together the world of theory and the world of things.