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George trakas biography
George Trakas
American-Canadian artist
George Trakas is a sculptor who was born in Quebec City in 1944 and has lived in New York City since 1963. Many of his projects are site-specific installations, and he describes himself as an environmental sculptor.
He often recycles local materials and incorporates them into his work.[1][2] Trakas taught sculpture at Yale University for 13 years and has also taught at other schools.[3]
Education and honours
Trakas graduated from Sir George Williams University in Montreal and then went on to earn a bachelor's degree in art history at New York University in 1969.[1] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982,[4] a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1989, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal for Sculpture in 1996.[5]Emory University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2011.[3] He also won the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist