Eduardo Fausti

BIOGRAPHY

Eduardo Fausti was born in Argentina in 1954 and attended the University of Mendoza, Argentina where
his architectural studies were interrupted during the years of totalitarian rule. He emigrated to the United
States in 1978 and settled in New York. In 1988 he moved to California where he resumed studies and
received his B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. An interest in Asian philosophy and
aesthetics moved Fausti to attend the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, People's
Republic of China, in 1995. In 1997, Fausti received his M.F.A. from Rutgers University, NJ, and was
the recipient of the Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship in visual arts. That same year, Fausti participated
in a Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper and CARE International funded project to establish an
ecological hand-made paper mill in Ecuador.
Fausti has been a resident artist in Belgium, Italy, and Morocco. He has participated in numerous national
and international juried and biennial print exhibitions. In addition, his work is represented in a number of
museums and public collections such as the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the New York Public
Library, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, and the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

STATEMENT

These portraits are three in a series of several mezzotints of elderly women’s
faces. The features in their faces reveal a long life of social challenges and
family achievements. I’m trying to capture their dignified and almost
unemotional expressions and see them as common denominators of other
women’s faces from different cultural and racial backgrounds (also part of
the same series). My intention, as well, is to represent these ordinary and
unknown women as relevant historical figures and reflect in them a sense of
pride and importance that may only be known by their peers and family.