Chaz Guest (born May 2, 1961[1] in Niagara Falls, New York[2]) is an American artist who works in the mediums of painting and sculpting.
[4] Guest graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from Southern Connecticut State University in 1985.
After the 1987/1988 season, Guest left Joyce magazine and moved to Dax, France, where he started painting.
[5] After leaving the Fashion Institute of Technology, Guest began studying the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
Guest's painting of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall hung in President Barack Obama's Oval Office at the White House.
Subsequently, Guest was invited by Kouji Matsuzaki San, Mayor of Obama, Fukui prefecture, to present the serigraphs.
During his visit to the Gambia, Guest discussed with the Gambian leader the renaming of James Island and Juffereh in the North Bank Region.
On February 6, 2011, James Island, the former British Slave Fort used for the slave trade of Africans in the River Gambia in the North Bank Region, was renamed by the Gambian President to Kunta Kinte Island.
Guest also did a painting of Troy Davis - a man sentenced to death for the murder of a Georgia police officer in 1991, for Amnesty International, USA.