About the Artist: Larry Santana

Larry Santana is a Papua New Guinean graphic designer and painter whose work is nationally acclaimed. Like other contemporary PNG artists, his art has received little global attention, although he visited the United States as an artist-in-residence in 1989 and 1998.

Santana grew up in Madang in the 19605 when Papua New Guinea was preparing for independence in 1975. In high school an expatriate art teacher helped him enter Goroka Technical College, where he received his diploma in graphics in 1980. His...