Born 1927 in Santiago, Chile, painter and printmaker, Sergio Carlo Higinio Gonzalez-Torero studied at the Slade School in London in 1958. In 1962, after working at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in Paris, he settled permanently in New York and worked at Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. Gonzalez-Tornero visited the Canadian archipelago of Haida Gwaii and soon his art became inspired and influenced by the work of the indigenous Haida peoples.
Gonzalez-Tornero was awarded a fellowship from 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, the Boston Printmakers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. He won first prize at the XII Biennale of Latin American Prints from Latin America and The Caribbean in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
