Zenos Frudakis
Zenos Frudakis (* 1951 in San Francisco) is an American sculptor.
He lives and works near Philadelphia. His monumental works are often inter alia, in the sculpture park Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, at New York Lotos Club, in Utsukushi ga - hara Open-Air Museum in Ueda, the National Academy of Design; in the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria - as well as in companies, institutions and private collections.
Life
His father was the Greek musician and poet Vasilis Frudakis. Zenos Frudakis grew up in Wheeling (West Virginia) and Gary (Indiana), where he worked in the steel mills. He started very early with the sculpture and went to Philadelphia in 1972 to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His teachers included two winners of the Prix de Rome: his older brother Evangelos Frudakis and the painter James Hanes. At the University of Pennsylvania Zenos earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Fine Arts.
Awards and prizes
Frudakis was nominated by Walker Hancock and Donald DeLue for inclusion in the National Sculpture Society and was the youngest sculptor, who was taken there. He was also one of the youngest sculptor who was inducted into the National Academy of Design.
1990 Frudakis was invited to participate in the third Rodin exhibition in Japan, where he won the prize in Hakone -ga- hara Utsukushi open-air museum. The museum acquired a cast of Frudakis ' sculpture Reaching.
Exhibitions
- National Academy of Design, New York, and National Sculpture Society Annual Juried Group Shows 1980s - 2009
- Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, 2005
- Philadelphia Airport, 2004
- Fleisher Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, Masterworks of American Sculpture, 1999
- Hakone Open - Air Museum, Japan, Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, 1990
- Chesterwood, Stockbridge (Massachusetts ), 1988
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Group Shows, Philadelphia, PA, 1983