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IAN TORNEY

Ian Torney is an artist, an arts educator and administrator, and an exhibition curator. Mr. Torney has been teaching in the Visual Arts at independent schools for over three decades. In 2012 he joined the faculty at his alma-mater Milton Academy and served for 10 years as the department Chair – he currently serves as the Nesto Gallery Director. Additionally, Mr. Torney served for five years as the Co-President of the Independent School Art Instructors Association, and remains on the leadership council of the Art Association of New England Preparatory Schools.

Most recently Mr. Torney was honored as the Massachusetts Arts Education Association/MAEA Independent School Arts Educator of the Year in 2025. Mr. Torney has mentored countless arts students, adults and peers – his students have garnered numerous regional Art All-Scholastic honors every year, and have won one Silver and five Gold national medals. Mr. Torney is also a practicing, professional landscape painter who exhibits his work annually – he is a member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, and is represented by the Hurricane Mountain Design Gallery of North Conway, NH.

See more at www.iantorneyart.com.