Chaz Guest @chazguest is a painter of note. The seventh of nine brothers and sisters, Chaz was born in 1961 in Niagara Falls, NY. Upon earning a degree in Graphic Design from Southern Connecticut State University, then graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, he moved to Paris, France. Once there, he began his first career with the fashion magazine, ‘Joyce’, where he illustrated lines for the haute couture houses. Years later, he gave up that career, in order to honor his initial calling as a painter. .
Guest’s work now exhibits and resides in prominent collections worldwide, including those of celebrities, kings, and international dignitaries. He is well known for his portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, which was acquired by then Senator, Barack Obama. The portrait hung in the Oval Office during his presidency, and now resides in the private collection at the home of Michelle and Barack Obama. .
Chaz Guest’s current and most ambitious series to date is based on his own tale “Buffalo Warriors” The story revolves around the African American soldiers during the Civil War who fought alongside one another and became the near-mythical company known as the “Buffalo Soldiers”.