Fernando Maza

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936 | Nogent-sur-Marne, France, 2017

Since 1960 he lived in New York, where he obtained a scholarship from the Pan American Union to study graphic arts at the Pratt Graphic Art Center. He received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation scholarship in Painting in 1971, from which date he spent the summer period at his home in Cala Deià, located on the island of Mallorca. Since 1973 he settled in London, where he remained until 1976, at which time he settled in France, first in Paris and then in Nogent-sur-Marne, where he died in 2017. Among his awards are: São Paulo Biennial in 1965, Cali Art Festival of 1968, First Prize of the National Painting Salon of 1984, the Palanza Prize of 1985, Grand Prize of Honor of 1987 and shared with Jack Vanarsky the Painting Prize of the Fortabat Foundation of 1994.

He died in Nogent-sur-Marne, a town near Paris, on January 16th 2017.