Sasha Meret

Sasha Meret was born in Romania in 1955, where he studied art from an early age and obtained both his B.A. and M.A. He arrived in New York in 1987 and studied printmaking at Columbia University, setting up his studio in TriBeCa. Meret’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, China and the United States. His production encompasses a wide range of techniques and styles. He combines painting, drawing, photography with printmaking techniques like intaglio, woodcut, aquatint, and monotype; he works in a variety of styles, from representational to abstract. He collaborates as a weekly illustrator for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune and has illustrated several books for Simon and Schuster, Harper Collins, Henry Holt and other publishing houses. Meret has been awarded the Printmaking Prize by the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia and has won the First Prize from the Romanian Editors Association. He currently lives and works in New York.