Eugenio Téllez (b. 1939, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean painter, printmaker, and educator whose internationally recognized career spans more than six decades. After studying at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, he joined Stanley William Hayter's influential Atelier 17 in Paris, where he worked from 1960 to 1966 and served as Associate Director. During this period, he collaborated on print editions with artists including Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Alechinsky, Jacques Hérold, and Gino Severini.
Téllez later taught at the University of Illinois and directed the Ben Shahn Graphic Workshop at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before becoming a professor at York University in Toronto, where he taught from 1970 to 1994. His work, encompassing printmaking, painting, collage, and installation, explores themes of history, memory, conflict, and cultural identity through a dynamic visual language marked by fragmentation and symbolic imagery. The recipient of numerous international honors, including the First Prize for Printmaking at the Paris Biennale (1962) and the Casa de las Américas Biennial (1965), Téllez remains one of the most significant figures in contemporary Chilean art.
