William N. Valavanis

Quick Facts

Full Name	William N. Valavanis
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Sep 3, 1951(1951-09-03)
Age	73
Birthplace	Waukegan
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

William N. Valavanis Biography

William N. Valavanis is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on September 3, 1951 in Waukegan, Illinois, United States.

At age 11, Valavanis began to pot tree seedlings and bend them into bonsai shapes. Four years later in the family’s new home in Charleston, West Virginia, he began to exhibit and lecture on bonsai at local garden clubs, and the following year started the “House of Bonsai” business. The family moved to Rochester, New York in 1968.

The summer of 1970 Valavanis spent studying with Kyuzo Murata at that master’s Kyuka-en Bonsai Garden in Japan’s Omiya Bonsai Village, and with Toshio Kawamoto at the Nippon Bonsai-Saikei Institute in Tokyo. The following year Valavanis graduated from The State University of New York Agricultural and Technical College at Farmingdale, Long Island, NY with a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. The next year he was back to Japan to study bonsai with Kakutaro Komuro and Toshio Kawamoto, bonsai chrysanthemums with Tameji Nakajima, and earn a master’s teaching certificate in ikebana from the Shofu School. Returning to his home in Rochester, NY, Valavanis had to redevelop the bonsai collection which he mostly had sold to finance his study in Japan. A degree in Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture from Cornell University followed in 1976 on the heels of several months study at Yuji Yoshimura’s School of Bonsai in Briarcliff Manor, New York. During his school days Valavanis continued to teach, train and sell bonsai; at Briarcliff Manor he conducted introductory and intermediate level bonsai courses. In 1975 and 1976 he wrote the first two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Classical Bonsai Art.

William N. Valavanis Net Worth

William N. Valavanis is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William N. Valavanis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William N. Valavanis (born September 3, 1951 in Waukegan, Illinois), is a Greek-American bonsai master who carries on Yuji Yoshimura’s tradition of teaching Japanese techniques and aesthetics to enthusiasts in the West.

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In 2012 he authored the large format book Fine Bonsai: Art & Nature (NY: Abbeville Press, ISBN 978-0789211125), which has 596 digital color photos (including 4 gate folds) by Jonathan M. Singer. In 2013 his collection of case studies of 100 bonsai, Classical Bonsai Art: A Half Century of Bonsai Study: The Creations & Passion of William N. Valavanis, was published.

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Yasmin Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William N. Valavanis celebrates birthday on September 3 of every year.

For The Bonsai Without Borders Global Summit and Black Scissors Bonsai Creators Convention in Nanxun, China in early December 2016, Valavanis joined about 70 other international teachers and artists from 35 countries in a unique two-day demonstration designing large Chinese juniper trees into bonsai.