biographie de Michel PONCE DE LEON (1922)

Birth place: Miami, FL

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Printmaker, painter

Studied: Univ. Mex. (B.A.); ASL; NAD; Brooklyn Mus. Art Sch.; also in Europe.

Exhibited: Mus. Arte Mod., Paris, France; Victoria & Albert Mus., London, Eng.; Venice Bienale, 1970; MoMA; MMA; Jane Haslem Gallery, Wash., DC, 1970s Awards: Tiffany Found. grant, 1955; Fulbright grant, 1956; Guggenheim Found. grant, 1967.

Member: Soc. Am. Graphic Artists (treas., 1968); Assn. Am. Univ. Prof.

Work: MoMA; Nat. Gal. Art, Wash., DC; Smithsonian Inst.; MMA; Brooklyn Mus, NY. Commissions: many print editions, 1960-; 10 prints, US State Dept, 1966; glass sculpture Steuben Glass, 1971.

Comments: Positions: Int. Cult Exchange, US State Dept., lect. & travel Yugoslavia, 1965, India & Pakistan, 1967-1968 & Spain, 1971. Teaching: instr. printmaking, Hunter Col., 1959-66; instr. printmaking, ASL, 1966- ; prof. printmaking Columbia Univ., 1972. Publications: contribr., "Experiments in three Dimensions," Art in Am. (1968); auth., "Artist proof," 1971; auth., "The Collage Intaglio," 1972.

Sources: WW73; J. Ross & C. Romano The Complete Printmaker (Macmillan, 1972); J. Heller, Prints (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1972); G. Peterdi, Printmaking (Macmillan, 1972).