 Artist's arttributes:
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Works on Paper, Installation |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 118 |
| Spain | 12 |
| Italy | 7 |
| Mexico | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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George Adams Gallery, USA |
27 |
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Fredric Snitzer Gallery, USA |
6 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), USA |
5 |
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MAM - Miami Art Museum, USA |
5 |
Biography: 
1959 Born in La Habana (CU)
Awards 1982 Award, Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
1986 Second Havana Bienal Prize, Cuba
1994 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York
1997 Oscar B. Cintas Foundation Fellowship
Selected Public Collections
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Museo of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Liceo Minvielle, Lagos, Mexico
Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (Mc Cormick Place Convention Center, South Hall), Chicago, Illinois
Miami Art Museum, Miami
MARCO (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo), Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
Perseus Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Porin Taidemuseum, Finland
Spencer Museum, Lawrence, Kansas
Walter Phillips Gallery, Bath, Canada
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
José Bedia has been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions in Europe, United States and Latin America. Among the most recent are a survey of paintings and wall works at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin (2002) and a site-specific installation at the Cantor Center, Stanford Univeristy (2003).
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 173
until 7.7.
until 9.6.
until 30.5.
Solo shows 51
2012
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| Aquella tarde en Samana - Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo |
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| Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell) - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| Transcultural Pilgrim - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Jose Bedia - Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo |
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| José Bedia - Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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| Entre Dos Mundos - Casa de America, Madrid |
2011
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| Transcultural Pilgrim - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Immediate Memory - Enlace - Arte Contemporáneo, Lima |
2010
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| José Bedia. Entre dos mundos - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Faces in the Landscape - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| ¿Cómo empezó todo? - Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce |
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| José Bedia - Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
2009
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| Ritual of Passage - Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| Apuntes De Viaje - Enlace - Arte Contemporáneo, Lima |
2008
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| Makishi Nkishi - Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo |
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| Status Quo - Constantini - Il Torchio, Milan |
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| Historias del sur - Galería Animal, Santiago |
2007
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| Jose Bedia - Galeria Ramis Barquet - Chelsea, NY, New York City, NY |
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| Jose Bedia:Paintings and Drawings 1992-2006 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| José Bedia - Galeria Ramis Barquet - Chelsea, NY, New York City, NY |
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| José Bedia - Galeria Ramis Barquet - Mexico, Garza Garcia, NL |
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| Jose Bedia - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
2004
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| José Bedia - Estremecimientos - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| José Bedia - Estremecimientos - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| Jose Bedia - El jaguar y la Anaconda - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
2003
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| José Bedia. Opere recenti - Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence |
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| José Bedia - Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima |
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| José Bedia - What the Virgin Told Me - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| José Bedia - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2002
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| José Bedia - RHA Gallery - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin |
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| Jose Bedia: Fragments of Fieldwork - Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO |
2001
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| Jose Bedia - - Annina Nosei Inc., New York City, NY (closed, 2005) |
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| Jose Bedia - Recent Work on paper - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Jose Bedia - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jose Bedia - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Elson Artist-in-Residence Project - Jose Bedia - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2000
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| Jose Bedia - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Jose Bedia - A Retrospective - Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Jose Bedia - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Jose Bedia - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (England) |
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| Jose Bedia "Paintings, Drawing and Sculpture" - Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Crónicas americanas. Obras de José Bedia - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| La Isla - el Cazador y la Presa (The Island - the Hunter and the Prey) - Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS |
1997
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| Jose Bedia:Erronea Artesania/ Erroneous Crafts - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| José Bedia - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| José Bedia: La Isla - El Cazador y la Presa - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
1996
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| Jose Bedia:Mi Essencialismo/ My Essentialism - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jose Bedia - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
1994
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| Jose Bedia - New Installations and Other Works - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Jose Bedia - Brevisima Relacion de la Destruccion de las Indias - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jose Bedia - New Paintings and Mixed-Media Installation - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 119
2012
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| Tell Me A Tall Story - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Summer Show 2012 - Skoto Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Caribbean: Crossroads Of The World - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| Construction - Frederico Seve Gallery - Latincollector, New York City, NY |
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| Muestra de Gráfica Internacional 2012 - Galería Vértice - Guadalajara-México, Guadalajara |
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| 60/60 - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Hans Lemmen en José Bedia - Common spirits - Museum het Domein, Sittard |
2011
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| Drawings: Group Exhibition - Skoto Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Anxiety’s Edge - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Collective Summer Show - Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo |
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| Materia all'ultimo incontro - Constantini - Il Torchio, Milan |
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| M E R Z B A U - N O W - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| Ajiaco - Stirrings of the Cuban Soul - The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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| Antropología cultural, denuncia social y nuevas estrategias de dibujo, próximas propuestas del CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| Aesthetics & Values 2011 - Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL |
2010
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| Lenguajes en papel - Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid |
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| Offerings - Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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| Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art - Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI |
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| PortugalArte10 - PortugalArte, Lisbon |
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| New and Classic - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Without Mask. Contemporary Afro Cuba Art - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg |
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| Bienal de Pontevedra 2010 - Bienal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra |
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| Flowers, Lies and Revolution: Contemporary Cuban Art - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection - Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables (Miami), FL |
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| It is it - Espacio 1414, Santurce |
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| Collettiva - Group Show - Constantini - Il Torchio, Milan |
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| The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
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| Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Revolutionary Acts: Fifty Years of Printmaking in Cuba - Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON |
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul - Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT |
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| Cardinal Points/Punto Cardinales: A Survey of Contemporary Latino and Latin American Art from the Sprint Nextel Art Coll - Baum Gallery / University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR |
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| Get with the Program: Group Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Making of Giants - Artformz, Miami, FL |
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| NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
2008
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| TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| TRANSactions - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Unbroken Ties: Dialogues in Cuban Art - Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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| Pivot Points (Part 1) - MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, FL |
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| Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Far from Home - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
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| The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection - Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN |
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| TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art - The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| Surrounded by Water: Expressions of Freedom and Isolation in Contemporary Cuban Art - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
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| Terapia de grupo (Arte Cubano actual) - Galeria Fernando Pradilla, Madrid |
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| Mixed Emotions. Apuntes para una colección del siglo XXI - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
2007
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| TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection - The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL |
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| Restos: Estudio Arteológico - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico - MAC, San Juan |
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| La Presencia - The Presence of Latin American Art in California Collections - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Nineteen Going on Twenty: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of the Contemporary Museum - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Selections from the Permanent Collection: New Gifts - AMoA - Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX |
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| Secuencias - 1976-2006. Arte contemporáneo en las colecciones públicas de Extremadura - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| MOCA’s Tenth Anniversary Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
2006
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| Rising Stars: North Latin Americans - Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City |
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| Unbroken Ties - Dialouges in Cuban Art - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Arte de Cuba - Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba |
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| Art On The Edge - Contemporary Art From The Permanent - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
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| TRANSactions - Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Art on the Edge - , Omaha, NE |
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| En las fronteras / In borderlines - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| GROUP SHOW - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| MOCA AND MIAMI - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Naturaleza Muerta - Latin American Still Life from South Florida Collection - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Colección Femsa - una mirada continental - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
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| Arte religione politica - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
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| AT THIS TIME: 10 Miami Artists - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| The Human Touch: Dain Rauscher Collection - Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA |
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| Figuratively Speaking - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Personal Mythologies - Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Exposición de Apertura - Espacio 1414, Santurce |
2004
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| Island Nations - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Contemporary Tapestries - Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Lock Stock and Barrel - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| 6ème Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
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| En las fronteras - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
2003
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| Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works, 1967-2003 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Draw! Draw! Draw! - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| Road Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Visual Poetics - Art and the Word - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| 10 Floridans - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| Linking Collection And Community - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Group Exhibition - - Annina Nosei Inc., New York City, NY (closed, 2005) |
2002
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| Get in Line - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Crisis Response - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Primal Screams and Songs - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Summer Group Exhibtion - - Annina Nosei Inc., New York City, NY (closed, 2005) |
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| Coleccionismos Contemporáneos - Público / Privado - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
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| Rayuela/Hopscotch:. Fifteen Contemporary Latin American - Marywood University Art Gallery, Scranton, PA |
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| Jose Bedia, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra - Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| Me, Myself & I: Self-Portraits by Gallery Artists - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Artists Respond & I Love NY Benefit - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| MOCA - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Contemporary Collectors XVI - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
1999
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| Saints, Sinners and Sacrifices - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS. - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS XIV - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Art about Art - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Four Latin American Artists - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| ANIMAL.ANIMA.ANIMUS. - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| Animal Anima Animus - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
1997
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| Show of Hands - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Caballos-Political Animals - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Going Places - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Defining the Nineties: Consensus Making in New York, Miami and Los Angeles - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Out of 'Toon - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Greatest Hits - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| 22° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Ante América. Actualidad latinoamericana - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
1993
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| Group Exhibition - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Large Scale Works on Paper - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| El Corazón Sangrante/The Bleeding Heart - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1990
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| XLIV. Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1987
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| 19° Bienal de Sao Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
| Dealer Directory 19 |
Brazil
| | Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo
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Dominican Republic
| | Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo, Santo Domingo
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Italy
| | Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence
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Mexico
| | Galeria Ramis Barquet - Mexico, Garza Garcia, NL
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| | Ge Galeria, Garza Garcia, NL
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| | Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City
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Peru
| | Enlace - Arte Contemporáneo, Lima
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Spain
USA
| | Tresart, Coral Gables (Miami), FL
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| | Pan American Art Projects - Dallas, Dallas, TX
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| | Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Evelyn Aimis Fine Art, Miami, FL
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| | Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Miami, FL
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| | Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
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| | Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
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| | George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Galeria Ramis Barquet - 57th Street, New York City, NY
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| | Galeria Ramis Barquet - Chelsea, NY, New York City, NY
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| | Leon Tovar Gallery, New York City, NY
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Argentina
| | MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
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Colombia
| | Museo de Arte del Banco de la República - Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogota
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Cuba
| | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana
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Finland
| | Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori
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Mexico
| | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
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| | Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo - MUAC, Mexico City
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Puerto Rico
Spain
| | Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
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| | DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
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USA
| | Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
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| | DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
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| | Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables (Miami), FL
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| | Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
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| | Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
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| | De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
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| | MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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