Born in NYC in 1961, Evan Polenghi was raised in Milano, Italy where the first sixteen years of his life were spent. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1976 and completing a BFA at Pratt Institute in 1983, Evan continues a life in Art. his studio is located in New York City's Flower district where he pursues both Commercial and Fine Arts.

Evan has consciously maintained a separation between the Commercial and Fine Arts world. Doing so has helped him retain a purity in both. Although maintaining this division has been a challenge it has permitted Evan to succeed in both areas building a foundation of powerful Imagery which eventually, to the viewer can and does cross this imaginary line. One of Evan's strengths is in fact his ability to alternate his visual language and communicate to many walks of life with intricate complexity and/or brash simplicity. Evan has consciously made images with the consistent notion that art is a language, a language that communicates. And through communication, simple and direct or complex and demanding, clarity be the underlying objective. His more personal work often deals with that he calls "Life Basics". Evan also uses his versatility to communicate with a wide variety of materials therefore making it even difficult to classify him as a Painter or Sculptor or Illustrator.

Among Evan Polenghi's accomplishments are several commissions for Absolut Vodka and an extensive list of commercial clients including the Museum of Modern Art, The Gap, The World Financial Center, Time Inc., Toshiba, The New York Times, among others. Evan's work is also in collections around the world including the U.S., Japan, Europe, and Latin America.