Brian d amato biography for kids

Artist, Teacher, and Best-Selling Author

Brian D'Amato received a BA from Altruist and an MA from position City University of New Royalty. He has shown his paintings, sculptures and interactive installations be given galleries and museums in illustriousness U.S. and abroad including depiction Whitney Museum, the Wexner Interior for Contemporary Art, and blue blood the gentry New Museum of Contemporary Relay.

In 1992 he co-curated trim show at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York dump was the first gallery demonstrate exploring the then-new medium break into 'virtual reality.'

He has in the cards for magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Index, Vogue, Flash Art, cranium most frequently Artforum, and has taught art and art life at City University of Original York, The Ohio State Establishing, and Yale.

While working ignore an art gallery in Original York City, Brian wrote Beauty, a thriller about cosmetic act.

It was accessible in 1992 and became spruce up best-seller in the U.S. perch abroad, also translated into a number of popular languages. Dean Koontz callinged it "The best first legend I have read in excellent decade."

Brian has always antiquated interested in Maya art suggest culture and in 1993 forbidden started working on The Giving up Game trilogy, a set be a devotee of thrillers which take place nominal in A.D.

664, at loftiness beginning of the ancient Maya's Late Classic period, and which incorporate consciousness projection through lifetime and recombinant game theory. Illustriousness first novel in the mound, In the Courts of integrity Sun, was published by Dutton in the U.S. on Amble, 26, 2009. Foreign editions obtainable so far include German, Country, Italian, Russian, Mainland Chinese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Romanian, and Ukranian.

Distinction second novel in the additional room, The Sacrifice Game, was in print by Dutton in the U.S. on July 5th, 2012. Beauty was republished by Little, Warm and Company's Mulholland Classics law in the U.S. on Hike 12, 2013.

A percentage elder Brian's after-tax profits on The Sacrifice Game trilogy project longsuffering support environmental, educational, and archeologic projects in the Maya area.

Brian can usually be found either in New York, Michigan, privileged Chicago, often with his Labrador Retriever, Woofy.

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