Diego Briceno is a visual artist working primarily in printmaking. He was born in Santiago de Chile and lives in New York City.
Diego is currently President of The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA). Since he joined as a member in 2018, he has worked to preserve archives, updated operations, expanded and diversified membership, and helped to establish SAGA Gallery. SAGA has been a nonprofit organization that promotes the work of printmakers across the USA since 1915.
Since 2017 Diego has been affiliated with the Art Students League, first as a figure model, then as student member and monitor for Rick Pantell and Bill Behnken’s printmaking classes, and currently as a teaching assistant for Tomomi Ono, master printer specializing in stone lithography. In 2019 Diego was awarded the Ada Aldrich Merit Scholarship, and in 2020, the Manhattan Graphics Center’s scholarship work exchange program.
He completed an associate degree in painting at the Liceo Experimental Artístico, in Santiago de Chile. Later he obtained a BA in contemporary dance at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Diego’s lithograph, Christodora House, is featured on the book cover of Skyscraper Settlement, by Joyce Milambiling, published in 2023, and his work have been shown at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, NYC, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, Providence Art Club, RI, SAGA Gallery, NYC, The Phyllis Harriman Gallery at The Art Students League of New York, NYC, The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, and recently, at the 75th anniversary of the Boston Printmakers Biennial in Boston, MA. where he won the Muskat Studios Materials Award for Lithography.