ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in California, Ken Salaz was raised in the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest and the mountains of West Virginia. Fascinated by the natural world as a boy, he created his first landscape painting at age seven; his interest in Hudson River School painting and American Transcendentalist philosophy, which deeply inform his art, developed in high school. Salaz studied art at Carnegie Mellon University, the Cooper Union, and the Water Street Atelier in New York City, where he apprenticed with master landscape painter Jacob Collins. In his second career as a magician and mentalist, Salaz entertains at corporate gatherings and A-list celebrity parties. He teaches landscape workshops at the Hudson River Landscape Atelier in Tarrytown, New York, and lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife, artist Camie Salaz, and their two sons. Salaz is represented by the Rehs Galleries in New York City and Tree’s Place in Orleans, Massachusetts.