Artist-printmaker, draughtsman and watercolourist, born in 1959 in London to Spanish parents. Tony Ameneiro immigrated to Australia in 1968. He studied art at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Sydney, NSW, from 1978-81.
Ameneiro began exhibiting in Sydney in 1984 with his solo exhibition titled 'Camouflaged Cakes’ at the James Harvey Gallery in Newtown, after which he continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe and the United States.
In 2007 he held a solo exhibition titled 'Skulls and Lilies, Lilies and Skulls’ at the Marianne Newman Gallery in Sydney.
Ameneiro has been twice included in the Dobell Prize for Drawingat the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2003 and 2006) and in 2007 he received the Fremantle Print Award.
His commissions include the 2001 and 2006 Annual Member Print Commission for the Australian Print Council.
- Writers:
- Ameneiro, Tony
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2010
