Michel (Caza) Cazaumayou was born on 2 August 1935 in Lion, France. He is an innovator in the screenprinting industry. Author of numerous technical articles and books for the screen printing industry. His book, Techniques of Screenprinting (1963) covers a broad spectrum of techniques on screenprinting.

After attending university to study journalism and sociology in Stockholm, Sweden, where he worked in design, window decoration, drawing caricatures, and singing in jazz bands, Caza entered the graphic arts by working in an offset print shop.

First Entry into Screenprinting

In 1954, he entered the screenprinting field at the “Ateljé BMJ” in Stockholm.

The shop had a McCormick press, the first automatic press designed for screenprinting, and two automatic presses that Ake Svantesson, the future founder of Svecia, built in his garage.

Atelier Castelli

Caza returned to France in 1956 to fulfill his military obligations, and after two years, he returned to screenprinting in partnership with Atelier Castelli in 1958.

Le Sérigraphe

In 1959, he was given the editorship of the magazine “Le Sérigraphe” which he changed to “Décoration – PLV – Sérigraphie” in 1963. Caza gave up the publication in 1969, as he became too busy with the printing side of screenprinting.

FSA and FESPA

He was a member of the European Chapter of the Screen Printing Association International. Also, in 1959, Caza created the Association Francaise de la Sérigraphie.

Casa was a co-founder and later President of the Federation of European Screen Printing Association (FESPA), founded in 1962 by 8 European Associations: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

Stellascreen Michel Caza

In 1963, Caza founded Stellascreen Michel Caza, LTD in La Garenne-Colombes, in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

Sérigraphie Michel Caza

In 1969, Caza decided to set up on his own without partners. He created a new company, Sérigraphie Michel Caza, in a 500 M2 building in Franconville, in the Val-d’Oise, a suburb of northwest Paris, France.

Even though farther from the center of Paris, the artist continued to arrive. They came from France, of course, but the rest of the world had found out about the Guru of Fine Art Serigraphy. Now his clients were from the far corners of the world, America, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, South America, and Spain. The artists, both known and upcoming, were constantly in the shop; Ronald Abram, Yaacov Agam, César Baldaccini, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Gérard le Cloarec, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaunay, Leonor Fini, Earnst Fuchs, Roy Lichenstein, Joan Miro, Richard Mortensen, Taro Okamoto, Guy de Rougemont, Niky de Saint-Phalle, Pierre Soulages, Kumi Sugai, and Victor Vasarely have been just a few of the 738 artists that Caza has worked with.

Atelier d’Art Michel Caza

By 1979, Caza had developed his own companies; Atelier d’Art Michel Caza (1979) was devoted to art screen printing, and Graficaza (1983) was devoted to industrial, graphic screen printing, and POP/POS.

Because of the high quality of his work, Caza won 350 Awards in North American and European Awards Competitions in all the fields of application of graphic screen printing technology… A world record!

Michel is also a technical writer (books, CDs in several languages, and hundreds of articles in technical magazines). He is a regular speaker at seminars, conferences and shows, and other activities in the industry and academic organizations worldwide. He is one of the top judges for international awards such as FESPA and SGIA.

On June 9, 2009, Caza prepared a history of his years in screenprinting and digital printing in a publication entitled “Colours of My Life.”