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Full Name
  
Arturo Herrera

Books
  
Arturo Herrera

Role
  
Visual Artist

Name
  
Arturo Herrera

Nationality
  
Venezuela


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Born
  
1959
Caracas, Venezuela

Education
  
University of Illinois at Chicago (1992), University of Tulsa

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean

Known for
  
Collage, Drawing, Sculpture

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Arturo Herrera (born 1959) is a Venezuelan visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Whitney Museum of American Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.

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Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, felt sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

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Selected Exhibitions

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  • 1998: "Arturo Herrera" The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL., Jan. 11 – Feb. 22.
  • 1999: "Color Me Blind! Malerei in Zeiten von Computergame und Comic", Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. Nov. 13,

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    1999-Jan. 16, 2000.

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  • 2000: Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY. Feb. 27 - May. 16.
  • 2001: Painting at the Edge of the World, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Feb. 10 – May. 6.
  • 2002: Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. Jan. 17 – Mar. 3.
  • 2003: The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy. Apr. 16 – Aug. 3.
  • 2004: Funny Cuts: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössische Kunts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany. Dec. 4, 2004–Apr. 17, 2005.
  • 2005: "Arturo Herrera" Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Apr. 7 – June 19.
  • 2006: Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL. Jun. 16 – Sep. 17.
  • 2007: "Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making", MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Mar. 4 – June 11.
  • 2008: "La invención de lo cotidiano", Acervos del Museo Nacional de Arte y de La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. Nov. 27 – Mar. 11.
  • 2009: Arturo Herrera - Ruinas Circulares / Circular Ruins, Fundación D.O.P. & Fundación Odalys, Caracas, Venezuela, Jun. 19 - Sep. 30.
  • 2010: Arturo Herrera - Home, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding), Americas Society, New York; Feb. 3 - Apr. 30.
  • 2012: "DECADE: CONTEMPORARY COLLECTING 2002–2012", Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Aug. 20, 2012 – Jan. 6, 2013.
  • 2013: "Parallel Worlds, Independent Creations" – Contemporary Art, Fundación D.O.P, Caracas, Venezuela, Sep. 22. - Dic. 8.
  • 2014: Minimal Baroque: Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Art, Rønnebæksholm, Naestved, Denmark, Apr. 6 – Jun. 15.

    • Important Collections

    Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, U.S.A.
    Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria.
    Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
    Fundación D.O.P., Madrid, Spain.
    Tate Britain, London (England), United Kingdom.
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
    Colección D.O.P., Paris, France.
    Louis Vuitton Foundation, Hong Kong, China.
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
    Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
    Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Caracas, Venezuela
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
    UBS AG Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, U.S.A.
    ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid, Spain

    References

    Arturo Herrera Wikipedia
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