One of South America's finest modern printmakers,Sergio Gonzalez Tornero was born in Santiago, Chile in 1927. He first studied art in both Chile and Brazil before finishing his education at the Slade School of Art, London (1958) and with the famous printmaker, Stanley William Hayter, at Atelier 17, in Paris (1959-1962). Several years later the artist moved to the United States where he resides in New York.

During the past forty years, Gonzalez Tornero's original etchings and aquatints have been the subject of over 44 one man exhibitions in Chile, the United States, Canada, Italy, Germany and France. He has received twenty-two awards for his art, including the UNESCO prize at the International Biennial in Crakow, Poland in 1966, and the first prize at the 10th Biennial of Prints from Latin America and the Caribbean, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1993. Public Collections in France, England, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Mexico all include examples of his etchings and engravings in their permanent collections. His art is also represented in both the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.