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Alexander Soukas: The Painter

Alexander attended the Walnut Hill School for the arts, one of five highschools in the country dedicated to rigorous training in music, ballet, theatre, writing, and visual arts for his freshman year. Unsatisfied with his training, and desiring to continue his career as a realist artist he pursued homeschooling as a way to continue academics alongside his apprenticeship with realist figure painter Jason Polins for 4 and a half years. Soukas is currently a freshman student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a coordinated program with UPenn for his BFA, while also continuing study in his lineage at Studio Incamminati.

Alexander Soukas: The Paperfolder

Alexander Soukas is first and foremost a contemporary realist painter and draftsmen, though he is better known for his work in paper folding. In 2006, Alexander began training in origami and papermaking with Michael Lafosse – a leading master of the art and an internationally recognized pioneer of the field. at fourteen he had two pieces in the exhibit, "On the Edge: Contemporary Origami" at the Fitchburg Art Museum. His work has since been exhibited in galleries across the country. Alex continues to fold, and has lectured about origami as a legitimate art form and its potential in fine arts, design and architecture, to schools throughout his home state. Alexander's penname, Oruhito, comes from the Japanese words, Oru (to fold), and Hito, (person) which roughly translates to "one who folds" or the "the man who folds"

Alexander Soukas CV

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Education

- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, BFA, 2011
- Portraiture under Kerry Dunn at Studio Incamminati, 2011
- Walnut Hill School for the Arts 2008
- Oak Meadow Home Schooling 2008-2011
- Colour Theory, under Courtney Jordan, 2009
- Apprentice to Jason Polins 2007 to present
- Paper making intensive under Michael Lafosse, 2008
- Figure drawing, under Paul Rahilley, 2008
- Figurative sculpture and portraiture, under Gerry Hoag,
2009
- Head and Figurative Intensive, under Jon DeMartin, 2010

Select Group Exhibitions
- On the Edge: Contemporary Origami, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, 2006
- Origami Tessellations: A Group Show, The Gail Cahalan Gallery, Providence RI, 2008
- FAVA Folding Festival, New Union Center for the Arts, Oberlin OH, 2009, 2010
- Folding, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky OH, 2009
- Paper, Dana Hall Art Gallery, Wellesley MA, 2009
- Annual Origami USA Exhibition, The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York NY, 2007, 2008, 2009

Work Experience
- Origami and Math: Workshop, JFK Middle School, Natick MA, 2006
- Intro to Origami: Workshop and Lecture, Dana Hall Middle School, Wellesley MA, 2008
- Origami as a Legitimate Art: Workshop and Lecture, Dana Hall High School: AP Studio Art, Wellesley MA, 2008
- Origami’s Applications in Architecture and Design: Workshop, Dana Hall High School: Architecture and Studio Art Students, Wellesley MA, 2009
- Paper folding Workshop, Berklee College of Music, Boston MA, ESL students, 2009
- Private student, Patrick Watrous, paper-folding, 2009
- Private student, Audrey Cilento, Drawing, 2010 - present
- Classical Painting and Drawing, Thayer Academy, Milton MA, 2010
- Millenium Pharmaceuticals, The Takeda, "1,000 Cranes of Hope" ONS conference, 2011