Directory of Contemporary Fresco Painters

Directory of Modern and Contemporary Fresco Artists:

This directory serves as a point of inspiration and to provide a sense of the community of fresco painters. Please email Mike.Nichols@wku.edu with additional names(and links) of contemporary fresco artists.

• Farooque Ali - Pakistan 
• Juana Alicia

• Pietro Anagonni -world renown artist and fresco painter

• Rhoda Yohai Andors

• ILia Anossov - a leading educator of fresco techniques, founder of the Fresco School (LA), teaches fresco at various locations including the Getty and Otis College of Art and Design. 

• Mico Di Arpo

• Kamini Avril 

• Barbara Badetti - directs the fresco at the Scuola di Affresco Andrea Sala (in Monza, Italy)

• Bronwyn Bain

• Mark Balma - pupil of Anagonni, accomplished artist and muralist
• Bea Banfi - fresco painter in Rome, teaches fresco

• Eolo Paul Bottaro - prolific fresco painter, Melbourne Australia

• Luca Battini 

• Ioana Belcea Icons and frescoes

• Franco Beraldo

• Derek Bernstein

• George Biddle

• Michael Biddle

• Al Blaustein

• Lucienne Bloch - apprentice to Diego Rivera

• Mario Bogani

• Daniel Bonham - fresco workshops, faculty at Miami University, Ohio

• Isabelle Bonzom - Historian, and fresco scholar, exciting contemporary frescoes. Paris, France

• Daniel Bozhkov - faculty at Hunter College

• Lance Bressow

• Ashley Bryan

• Robert Bunkin 

• Massimo Callossi - studied under Annigoni and Stefanelli

• Christopher Carroll - Incredible screen printed buon frescoes

• Iain Carstairs - Bedford, England, A BBC write up about his recent fresco can be found here

• Aslı Çavuşoğlu Painter from Istanbul, Turkey. Important contemporary uses of fresco. 

• Jean Charlot

• Francesco Clemente

• Stoney Conley
• Candice Smith Corby -Teaches fresco at The Bottega, also faculty at Stonehill College 

• Enzo Cucchi 

• Williard Cummings 
• Philip Davydov - founder Sacred Murals Studio, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Stephen Pope Dimitroff - apprentice to Diego Rivera

• Lesley Anne Doyel

• Melanie Ebenhoch

• Robert Feintuch

• Sergei Fyodorov 

• Chafa Ghaddar Lebonese artist working in Dubai. Unique and ambitious fresco applications. A contemporary voice in fresco. 

• Patrizia Gioia, founder of the La Bottega dell'Affresco, Rome, Italy

• Sean Glover - inspiring contemporary frescoes, teaches fresco at Skowhegan, Maine

• Brian Scott Goings

• Jeffery Greene - owner and founder of Evergreene Architectural Arts

• Grace Greenwood

• Marion Greenwood

• Stephen Grima

• Jose Guerrero

• Jesus Gonzalez Gutierrez - Director and Founder of the Oaxaca School of Muralism, Mexico City, Mexico

• Ruth Hardinger

• Dean Hartung - instructor at the Arts Student League of NY

• Hazló contemporary fresco painter located in Paris, France

• David Headley

• Michael Hearn

• Kohlene Hendrickson - studied under Frederico Vigil, Kohlene teaches fresco workshops at various locations

• James Hyde -inspiring contemporary frescoes, NYC

• Christopher Holt - North Carolina art, studied under Ben Long, impressive large-scale frescoes

• Jill Hooper

• Olivia Irvine - United Kingdom

• Yvonne Jacquette

• YoungSun Jin -acclaimed artist and an important perspective on the practice of contemporary fresco, Fulrbright Visiting Professor at Duke University

• Don Jusko

• Charles Gilbert Kapsner 

• Fluer Kelly 

• Margaret Keller Professor of Painting at St. Louis Comm. College, Meramec. Her non-fresco works can be viewed here: site: http://www.margaretkellerstudio.com 

• William King

• Koji Kinutani 

• Grace Knowlton

• Kevin Kuenster Red Hook, NY

• Rico Lebrun

• Tessa Lindsay

• Benjamin F. Long - highly acclaimed traditional frescoes, living master of the fresco technique (studied under P. Anagonni)

• James LoParo

• Paola Magini 

• Gianpaolo Marchesi (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

• David Margolis

• Megan Marlatt

• Alfredo Nieto Martinez - Acclaimed muralist of Mexico (Mexico City)

• Hubert Massey - Studied under Lucienne Bloch and Stephen Pope Demitroff, recent large scale fresco mural in Detroit

• David Mayernik associate professor at the School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame.

• Constance McClure - faculty at the Art Academy of Cincinnati

• Heather McReynolds

• Julia Alexandra Mee British 

• D. Jeffrey Mims acclaimed fresco painter and pupil of Ben Long

• Carey Mortimer - Sardinia, Italy

• Carrie Moyer - writer, facutly at Hunter College

• Bent Erik Myrvoll -Norway

• Michael Nichols faculty at Western Kentucky University, contemporary airbrushed buon frescoes

• David Novros -highly acclaimed contemporary fresco work

• Anne O'Hanlon

• George O'Hanlon - fresco instructor and founder of Natural Pigments artists' materials company

• Walter O'Neill

• Ozioma Onuzulike - innovative burned frescoes

• Anthony Panzera - faculty at Hunter College, has used fresco
• William Pettit -Teaches fresco at the Bottega, faculty at John Cabot University, Rome 

• Anne Poor

• Henry Varnum Poor

• James Postill

• David Mouta Pou

• Sérgio Prata

• Isabelle Proust

• Sheilah Rechtschaffer 

• Jean Melville Rose

• Lewis Rubenstein 

• Fabrizio Ruggiero - Exciting contemporary approaches to buon fresco

• Alison Saar

• Andrea Sala (founder of the School of Fresco in Italy)

• Italo Scanga

• Francesco Santoro - Excellent religious frescoes, originally from Milan, Italy

• George Scheeman

• Titania Seidl

• Ben Shahn

• Sidney Simon

• Paulette Singer

• Romano Stefanelli - Italy, studied under Annigoni 

• Barbara Sullivan - Maine, inspiring contemporary frescoes. A great video of a show of hers here: Video

• Oleg Supereco - Amazing skill that rivals the old masters. A living master of buon fresco

• Gail Swithenbank

• Sarah Tomasetti

• Liana Sofia Tumino

• Alberto Venegas

• Frederico Vigil

• Antonis Vlavogilakis - University of the Aegean, Faculty of Humanities, PHD candidate

• Alexandra Walker - Art of Fresco studio, London, England

• John Wallace

• Sr. Lucia Wiley, CHS

• Stephanie Wilhelm - Fusion of ceramic vessels and buon fresco

• Deborah Zuccarini

• Richard Zuccarini