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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 17 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Uruguay | 2 |
| Costa Rica | 2 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, USA |
5 |
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Tobey C. Moss Gallery, USA |
2 |
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Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay |
2 |
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MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica |
2 |
Biography: 
1933 Born in Mexico City, Mexico (MX)
A master draftsman, Jose Luis Cuevas played a pivotal role in Latin America's drawing and printmaking renaissance of the sixties and seventies. He is also associated with Latin America's neofigurative movement, along with artists such as Fernando Botero and Antonio Segui. Cuevas was born in Mexico City in 1933. By the age of fourteen, he had illustrated numerous periodicals and books and had had his first exhibition in Mexico City. In 1953 Cuevas published La cortina del nopal (The Cactus Curtain), an article condemning aspects of the Mexican Mural movement and advocating greater artistic freedom. This philosophy inspired the founding in 1960 of the group Nueva Presencia, which he joined for a brief time. It promoted individual expression and figurative art reflecting the contemporary human condition.
Cuevas' work was influenced by the graphic art of Goya and Picasso as well as by Posada and Orozco, whose representations of deformed creatures, degraded humanity and prostitutes were of particular thematic interest. Over the years, he has paid homage to his favorite painters as well as writers, such as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Quevedo and Sade, in numerous series of drawings and prints. Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate. It is for this reason that he often distorts and transforms the human figure to the point of uniqueness.
Cuevas has had solo exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world including the University of Texas, Austin, 1961, the San Francisco Museum of Art, California,1970, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1972, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, 1974, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1975, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1976. His work was included in Four Masters of Line: Jose Luis Cuevas, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Morris Graves, Musee de la Napoule, France, 1957 and in The Emergent Decade, Cornell University and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965. Among his many awards are First International Prize for Drawing, Biennial of Sao Paulo, 1959, First Prize, International Black and White Exhibition, Lugano, Switzerland, 1962, First International Prize for Printmaking, Triennial of Graphic Arts, New Delhi, India, 1968, First Prize, III Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1977. Cuevas was awarded the National Prize for Fine Arts in Mexico in 1981 and represented Mexico at the 1982 Venice Biennial. In 1992 the Museo Jose Luis Cuevas was inaugurated in Mexico City.
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Public exhibitions 27
Solo shows 6
2005
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| José Luis Cuevas: In drawing and sculpture / en el dibujo y la escultura - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
1995
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| José Luis Cuevas - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
1994
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| José Luis Cuevas - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
1990
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| José Luis Cuevas - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
1967
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| How a Lithograph Is Made: Jose Luis Cuevas - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1960
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| The Drawings of Jose Luis Cuevas - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
Group shows 21
2009
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| Creative Dialogues: Latin American Prints & Printmakers - Center for Contemporary Printmaking (CCP), Norwalk, CT |
2008
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| Art of the Americas - Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2007
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| La Presencia - The Presence of Latin American Art in California Collections - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
2006
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| Sexwork. Kunst Mythos Realität - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin |
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| Auction 2006 - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Contemporary Latin American Art - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| Beyond Borders - Mexican Art Inspires 20th-Century Art - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
2005
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| An Exhibition of Mexican Masters and Contemporary Artists - Castel Gallery - College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY |
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| Acquisitions and donations to the permanent collection 2003 - 2004 - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA |
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| The Art of the Print - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC |
2003
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| Lo feo de este mundo - Images of the Grotesque - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| Siglo XX - Grandes Maestros Mexicanos - Los espacios inconformes - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL |
2002
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| Pas de deux - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
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| Suite Europa 2002 - Colección de estampas digitales - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
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| Artists of the People: Mexican Prints of the Twentieth Century - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Suite Europa 2002 - Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki |
2001
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| LATIN FLAVORS - Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1999
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| Mexican Works on Paper from the Museum's Collection - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
1965
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| Personal Choice: Paintings and Sculpture from Houston Private Collections - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 10 |
France
| | Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris
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Mexico
| | arróniz arte contemporáneo, Mexico City
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| | Galería López Quiroga, Mexico City
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Spain
| | Polígrafa Obra Grafica, Barcelona
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USA
| | Gallery DeNovo, Ketchum, ID
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| | Tasende Gallery - La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | Tasende Gallery - West Hollywood, West Hollywood, CA
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| | Galeria Yoramgil, West Hollywood, CA
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Public collections 15
Bolivia
| | Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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Colombia
| | MAMBO - Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Santafé de Bogota
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| | Museo de Arte del Banco de la República - Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Santafé de Bogota
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El Salvador
| | Museo de Arte de El Salvador - MARTE, San Salvador
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Mexico
| | Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
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| | Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City
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| | Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City
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| | Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo - MUAC, Mexico City
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Uruguay
| | MAAM Fundacion Museo de Arte Americano de Maldonado, San Fernando de Maldonado
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USA
| | Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, PA
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| | Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
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| | USC Fisher Museum - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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| | PCC - Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
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| | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
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