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BiographyInternet Biography of Richard Ozanne (Marsh)
Richard Ozanne (Marsh) is an American artist who has received numerous European awards for his work. In 2024, he was honored with the Leonardo Da Vinci Award from the Fondazione Effeto Arte: Museum of Arts and Technology in Milan, Italy. He also received the Phoenix International Award at the Venice Biennale (2024). The Michelangelo Buonarroti Award (2006) was granted to him by the Senate-Senato Internazionale Accademia Santarita in Turin, Italy. He earned awards such as the Europa Prize for Small Work in 2005 in Turin, Italy, including the Gold Medal and First Prize. (He has been nominated internationally for over 100 awards by various organizations.) Some of his early recognitions include the Chautauqua Society for Peace. His accolades also include recognition at the Bestor Plaza Festival in 1985, the Helen Tempe Logan Scholarship in 1984, and he was a PFA Division of Related Arts Traveling Scholar in 1990 with travel to live and work in Italy. He is a Life Member of the Art Students League of New York and is also affiliated with the New York Art Equity Association and other orgs. Additionally, Richard Ozanne was nominated to the Knights of St. Luke Order, 'Commander' KOSLC (May 2023) BackgroundMarsh, Richard Ozanne was born on May 20, 1959, in St. Louis. Son of Ozan J. and Patricia (Benkman) Marsh. He began his interest in art at a very early age, during which he became a student of a storyboard artist at a television studio and continued on with his studies and output of interests in art and music. At the age of 8, he began to take classes at Chautauqua Summer School in upstate New York with Revington Arthur, and a young artist specialist from New York City. In 1968 he was beginning to achieve notice with local television and art exhibitions, taken later to a more serious interest in painting and drawing through High School in his native Tucson Arizona. In 1977 he continued on with his studies at Chautauqua, under Arthur and matriculated through his BFA degree at the University of Arizona, Tucson (1982) where he studied both music and art, receiving a commission for a solo exhibit at the University of Arizona's Hall of Fame Gallery 1982. The artist studied in France at the atelier of Gustav Nebel, a known artist in the southern city of Cannes, and a student of Edvard Vuillard, That same year he had traveled to the Peoples Republic of China and was invited to attend graduate school at the Central Arts Academy by Wo Zouren, a notable Chinese Artist of the period. Later the next year, 1983, (after a semester in graduate school pursuing his MFA) he was provided with a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York and commenced study with Robert Beverly Hale and David A Leffel. Over the next several years he would be involved in exhibitions in New York City as well as graduate study at Columbia University Graduate School in Art under Leon Goldin. In 1987 the young Ozanne began to receive commissions out west for his artwork and exhibit frequently. He gave a solo exhibit in Christchurch New Zealand (Canterbury Society of Fine Arts) in 1988 after a tour of the country doing live plein air work (work from life). Other subsequent art exhibits abroad were given overseas as well as around his native town of Tucson Arizona, filling the artist time with commissions and demonstrations of his artwork. He studied intermittently at Arizona State University in pursuit of his MFA as well as gaining commercial work and exhibitions. 1990 he had his New York debut, at a well-known gallery of the period in SOHO, receiving notices and publications. In 1992 he received the MFA Master of Fine Art at ASU. His principal instructors were Earl Linderman, Dan Britton, Rip Woods as well as others. Shortly after he received his degree he was offered another exhibition in New York City and contracted for a Solo Exhibit of his work the next year. In 1995 he was offered an exhibit in Turin Italy and traveled to Europe in pursuit of art, its riches, and history. He became a resident of the Czech Republic from 1996 to 2002, exhibiting in Europe in many exhibits in several countries. He taught as a professor at Charles University Faculty of Pedagogy, AMU Academy of Art (FAMU, DAMU, HAMU) those years during his residence, as well as taught Recent Projects. 2017 Artist Award, 'Goya International Award' in Barcelona, Spain, featured in Contemporary Arts Magazine, Europe. 2017 Artists Award, 'Galileo Award', Pisa, Italy, featured in Contemporary Arts Magazine. Europe. 2024 Artist Award, 'Leonardo Da Vinci Award', Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Technology, Milan, Italy, featured in Contemporary Arts Magazine, Europe.
Exhibitions 2024-select : Casa delle Arte, Palma Majorca, Spain Cipriate Arte, Venice, Italy Andulkova Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Phoenix International Award, Venice, Italy - 2024 Venice Biennale. Contemporary Arts Magazine. Thompson Gallery, Zug, Switzerland Paris Art Expo, Paris, France Swiss Art Expo, Zurich 6.0 Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland (24 Painting Exhibits)
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