User:Andrewxenios

Andrew Xenios (born 1945, Long Beach, California) is an American artist, photographer, printmaker, poet and teacher based in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico and Marblehead, Massachusetts. Best known for his photogravure images.

Early life
He studied biology and chemistry at Salem State University in Massachusetts where he earned his B.F.A. He went on to earn his M.F.A. in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He was a student of photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He has worked as a fine art photographer, and teacher since the late 1960's.

Career
In 1985 he was a founding member of the photography collective based in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico called "Focal Plane" (spanish: "Plano Focal"), later renamed to "Alternate Image"; which included artist such as; Víctor Rendón, Eduardo Arco, Humberto Suaste, Christian Rasmussen. Between 1985 until 2000 the group hosted an international festival called "April, Month of Photography" (spanish: "Abril, Mes de a Fotographia").

Besides well over 100 exhibitions during his life, his work is owned various collections, including the Fogg Museum at Harvard University; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Bibliothèque nationale de France; the Aaron Siskind Collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Arizona.

Xenios continues to photograph and teach in his studio and home in Yucatan, Mexico. As of 2017 he says he is working on a book of photographs and poems about the fading customs, traditions, and the visual effects of modernism on Mayan pueblos in the Yucatan Peninsula.