Raised in Congo, Greg Decker’s early exposure to African and European art has strongly influenced his past 35 years as a professional oil painter. Decker holds two M.F.A. degrees, from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and from the New York Academy of Art. He spent 12 years in Philadelphia, then 12 years in New York City, where he taught at both MoMA and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a visual teaching artist through the Lincoln Center Institute. He has also spent time lecturing in museums and galleries across the United Kingdom, France, and Italy.
Teaching his own series of workshops in painting, Decker moved to Nashville, Tennessee and to Asheville, North Carolina for eight years, during which time he began sculpting and produced etchings and woodcuts. After five years in New Mexico, where he produced his ‘frieze’ paintings, he returned to Nashville.
