John Sparagana
John Sparagana
American, born 1958
Person TypePerson
American, 1914–1997
American, born Switzerland, 1826–1899
Italian (Florentine), c. 1395–1455
BiographyJohn Sparagana was born in Rochester, New York in 1958. His family moved to Oak Park, Illinois when he was seven and at age seventeen, Sparagana left home to be a writer yet turned to painting instead. He received his MFA in Painting from Stanford University in 1987 and is currently teaching art at Rice University in Houston, Texas.