Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on December 18, 1929. Martin is married to the former Mary Balekdjian and resides in North Reading, Massachusetts. He has a diploma from the school for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; he received his undergraduate degree in 1953 from Tufts University and in 1959, his MA in Art History from Boston University. His art studies have taken him abroad to Paris, various countries in the Middle East, and India. Mr. Barooshian has been listed since 1972 in the Who’s Who in American Art as well as the International Who’s Who Art Directory in 1982. He also has served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, Vice President of the U.S. Committee to the International Association of Art for UNESCO, Guest Curator at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York, and has been a juror for national and international art competitions. Mr. Barooshian’s creative style went through many periods of change between 1950-1960, including influences from Paul Gauguin, William Blake, Armenian manuscript art as well as the surrealists. He feels that a major breakthrough was his second trip to Europe in 1956, when he was studying independently with S.W. Hayter, the internationally famous teacher and printmaker. Martin’s deeply personal style of surrealism was obvious at that time, but it was Mr. Hayter’s necessary encouragement in an international atelier that allowed him to push through the artistic boundaries of his art. In his graphics, Mr. Barooshian made a second major breakthrough in technique about 1970 and since then, his color intaglio etchings have been enormously popular in the U.S. and abroad. He had a one-man show of 45 of his color etchings in a special gallery at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibitions of his work have appeared in galleries and museums from New York, throughout Europe and Latin America, to India. His collections have been displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in Watertown, MA; the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Lincoln Center Museum of Performing Arts in New York as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.