about Styrous®

Styrous® was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. He studied music through elementary and high school, and theory and composition at San Francisco City College and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied ballet from 1958 to 1962 and was in the corps de ballet and a character dancer with the Pacific Ballet from 1960 to 1962. He danced until 1977. He owned and operated his own production company for over 20 years, producing live events (company promotions, dance and theater shows, and performance art). He produced fashion shows for over 20 years for many stores, including Sandra Sakata's legendary art-to-wear boutique, Obiko, in San Francisco, and Kaisik Wong, Marian Clayden, Gibson Palermo and other art-to-wear designers. He was president of the board of directors of the San Francisco Fashion Forum, an association of San Francisco bay area based fashion designers, from 1993 to 1994 and was editor of the The San Francisco Fashion and Art News from 1996 to 1999.

He composed music for films, commercials, the San Francisco art-to-wear store, Cicada, and the theme song for the Asian American Arts Foundation’s 1999 Golden Ring Awards.

The contacts made through these various venues have been the inspiration for many of his photographic subjects. Styrous® has experimented with photography for the last 40 years. He converted from film to digital around 2001. His work, described as “formalist” and “romantic-realist”, is in collections in Spain, France, Switzerland, Greece, Mexico and the United States. It has been shown in group as well as solo exhibitions.

His work can be seen here.