Barry Biesanz

Barry Charles Biesanz, also known as Barry Biesanz Hiltunen (born September 1, 1948, in New Orleans) is a woodturner who became a Costa Rican citizen in 1998.

As a 17 year old Detroit high school student, Barry received national press coverage for protesting the Vietnam war. Newsweek quoted him in a 1966 article on "The Teenagers" as saying "I got my hair cut.But now they are regulating ideas and I can't get my ideas cut."Another publication on the attitudes of 1966 teenagers, The young adult; identity and awareness also quoted him on this.

Barry Biesanz moved to Costa Rica in 1971 and founded Biesanz Woodworks in 1972.

• 2006"Biesanz Turns Out Masterpieces in Escazú" The Tico Times
• 2005"Barry Biesanz He Found Woodturner's Heaven" Woodturning Design Spring 2005
• 2004Beneath The Bark: Twenty-Five Years of Woodturning. Christensen, Kip & Nish, Dale. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Brigham Young Museum of Art, Provo, Utah.
• 2002"Artisan's Work Prized By Many" The Leader Post, May 31, pg 53
• 2002"Costa Rica for Wood Art" Edmonton Journal May
• 2002"Plant Tree, Save Culture" Harbour City Star, June 5
• 2001"Wood From Start to Finish Stars in Tour," Tico Times, December 14, 2001
• 1997"Crafts with the Scent of Wood," Costa Rica Today, Jan 23, 1997
• 1995"Un Encuentro Feliz," American Woodturner, September 1995 pg 28 by Connie Mississippi
• 1995"Bowled Over by Costa Rica," Excerpt from The Dallas Morning News, August 13, 1995 pg 7G by Terry Hong
• 1994"Arbolitos a su alcance," La Nacion Rincón Verde, Viva pg 2 by Vanessa Bravo, October 19, 1994
• 1993"Biesanz, A Master Craftsman in Wood" Costa Rica Today April 29
• 1993"Taipei International Exhibition of Traditional Arts and Crafts: Selected Overseas Exhibits" January 16 - 29th pp 96
• 1993"Barry Biesanz Master Woodworker," American Airlines Guide Magazine
• 1992"Magia de Madera" La Nacion, shopping section, September 15–22, page 8
• 1992"Noted Woodworker Backs Need to Conserve Forests” Tico Times Special Supplement January 1992
• 1991"Queen Sofia of Spain buys Biesanz Art, Tico Scene, Tico Times, April 26, 1991
• 1991 “The Noble Woods of Costa Rica – God Creates Them, Biesanz Works Them”  Join Us – Costa Rica Awaits You Magazine, page 54
• 1989/1990"Featuring the Work of Barry Biesanz" International Woodworking, Cover article, Winter edition Vol. VI, No. 1
• 1989"Northwest Highlights" WestArt, April 14, 1989 Exhibition with Moulthrop and Ellsworth
• 1987"Shopper's World, Costa Rican Wood" New York Times, August 23, page 10012
• 1987"Shopping for Costa Rican Handicrafts" International Herald Tribune, August 28, 1987
• 1984“Barry Biesanz” Tico Times, June 1, 1984 by M.E.Esquivel