Carmon Colangelo (born 1957 in Ontario, Canada) is considered one of the premier printmakers today. He is the Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and holds the E. Desmond Lee Professorship for Community Collaboration in the Arts. With 15 solo shows in the past 10 years and another 100 group exhibitions in the past two decades. Mr. Colangelo has exhibited widely, from Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. to Argentina, Canada, England, Puerto Rico, and Korea. His works are in collections at the National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.<ref>http://brunodavidgallery.com/artistDetail.cfm?id_artist=3</ref>

"Colangelo uses a variety of printmaking processes including intaglio, lithography, collagraph, monotype, silkscreen and digital printing. Using new methods and transformative materials such as wax and iridescent inks, he builds both physical and visual depth into a traditionally flat medium," writes Robin Dana, director of the Art Gallery of the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art. She continues, "The dissection Colangelo eludes to appear far less like a literal body because he uses a complex iconography of plants, animals, pills, and abstract forms alongside disfigured body parts. His codification offers a narrative that requires close examination of the symbols contained within, defying scale and species as he seams together monstrosities of a fantastic laboratory." His large scale digital and monotype prints use fragments from common kiosks and billboards, where the remains of flyers, post-it-notes, staples and other artifacts form a transitory narrative that Michael Slaven in Art Papers refers to as, "a flotsam and jetsam of our ordinary existence marking out the invisible layers of contemporary life."<ref>http://brunodavidgallery.com/artistDetail.cfm?id_artist=3</ref>

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