
Henryk Fantazos was born in Kamionka Strumilowa near Lvov in what was then
Poland in 1944. From 1957 to 1963, he attended the Lyceum of Fine Arts in
Katowice, Poland, and in 1963 was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow,
where he studied at the Painting Faculty under the eminent Professor J.
Nowosielski. In 1969 he received his Master's Degree. Since then, he has worked
as a painter and, more recently, as copper engraver, organizing one-man shows and
taking part in many group showings in Poland and international exhibitions
throughout Europe and the United States. In 1975 he immigrated to the United
States.He chose to live and work in the American South which is also boundless source of his inspiration. He resides in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
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