Alexis Duque
EDUCATION
The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2005
The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY 2005
B.F.A University of Antioquia , Medellin, Colombia 1995
School of Fine Arts of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia 1984 – 1989
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 "El Museo's Bienal: The(S)Files 2011" El Museo del Barrio, New York
2010 “Super Cluster” Praxis Gallery, Miami, FL
“Curate NYC” Rush Arts, New York, NY
“Around the way” Curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado and
Trinidad Fombella and organized by Macy’s and
El Museo del Barrio, Macy’s, New York, NY
“Interrupted Landscapes” Curated by Sonia Dutton,
Champion Contemporary, Austin, Texas.
“Weaving in and out” with No Longer Empty, New York, NY
2009 “El Dorado”, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY – Solo Show
“Babel”, Praxis Gallery, Miami, FL - Solo Show
“New Tales of Our Age” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, NJ
“Dialogo 365” The Ice box, Crane Building, Philadelphia, PA
2008 “Auction-Exhibition 08” Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
“The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran” Instanbul, Turkey
“Bridge” Art Fair, Praxis Gallery, New York, NY
“Where the wild things grow” Praxis Gallery, New York, NY
“Arteamerica’s Art Fair, Solar Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 “Brave New World” Solar Gallery, East Hampton, NY
“Loaded” My Art Prospects Gallery, New York, NY
“Auction-Exhibition 07” Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
“Drawing gifts” The drawing center, New York, NY
“Homobellicus-Berlin 2007” Christiania, Berlin
“Talking with My Friends” Y Gallery, New York, NY
“The most curatorial biennial of the Universe” Apexart, New York, NY
2006 “Kunstenaars” RudolfV Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Fantasy” Gallery 10G, New York, NY
4th. Juried Show, Galeria Galou, Williamsburg, NY
“Percepcion Autonoma”, Galeria Galou, New York, NY
“Visiones” Lobby Gallery at The United Nations, New York, NY
SCOPE Miami Art Fair, 10G Gallery, Miami, FL
“Salon Expace”, AG Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
“Works on Paper” Flux Factory, Queens, New York
“From The Heart of New York”, World Financial Center, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Future perfect” Beautiful Decay Magazine, book 6
Blue canvas Magazine#5, July 2010, pag. 54-55
New American Paintings #86, 2010, North East Edition, Juried by Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, curator of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
“The underdogs” Beautiful Decay Magazine, book 3
“East Hampton’s Solar Greets 2008 as Brave New World” by Joan Baum, Hamptons.com
Thursday, January 03,2008
“Studio Visit” Volume #2, june 2008. pag.51
“Artists Explore Brave New World” by Pat Rogers, The East Hampton Press, Dec. 19,2007
“ Scary New World” by Jennifer Landes, The East Hampton Star, Nov. 8, 2007
Ana Eckell
She was born in Buenos Aires on October 30, 1947.
She studied at the "Manuel Belgrano" and "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" art schools, graduating from them in 1964 and 1967 respectively.
SOLO EXHIBITION (selection) *
2010 La última curva, Sívori Museum
2009 Tiempo suspendido, Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires.
2002 La voz del agua, Sala Cronopios, Centro Cultural Recoleta
2000 Otra letra para mi canción, Centro Cultural Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima, Peru
1999 Sicardi-Sanders Gallery, Houston, USA
Museo de Arte Americano, Maldonado, Uruguay.
1998 Todo es texto, Fundación Andreani
1997 Galerie 266, Braunschweig, Germany
1996 Sicardi-Sanders Gallery, Houston, USA
1995 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; la Galería, Quito, Ecuador
1993 La línea canta, Fundación Banco Patricios
1991 Park Gallery, Boca Ratón, Florida, USA
Galería Arte Actual, Santiago de Chile
Vuelo rasante, Williams Lamb Gallery, Long Beach, California, USA
1990 Centro Cultural de Miraflores, Lima, Peru
1989 Edison Gallery, The Hague
1986 Galería del Retiro.
1984 Fundación San Telmo; Galería Atica
1983 Galería Alberto Elia
1981 Galería Atica
1979 Galería Atica
1978 Galería Balmaceda
BIENNIALS (selection)
2001 V International Bharat Bhavan Art Biennial, India
1999 II Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1998 II International Print Triennial, Prague
1997 XLVII Venice Biennial
1996 XIX International Milan Triennial; V International Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador
1995 7th International Taipei Biennial, China.
1994 Osaka Print Triennial, Japan; I Havana Biennial, Cuba
1993 93 Osaka Painting Triennial, Japan
1991 III International Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; X International Art Biennial, Valparaiso, Chile
1986 Graphic Arts Biennial, Cali, Colombia
1985 XIII Paris Biennial, France
18th San Pablo Biennial, Brazil
1984 1st Havana Biennial, Cuba
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2006 Cuerpo y Materia, Arte Argentino entre 1976 y 1985, Imago; Marked Pages, Sicardi
Gallery; Houston, USA Fragmentos de una década, Castagnino Roldan espacio de Arte
2003 Grotesco y Parodia, Centro Cultural Recoleta; The Potent Line William Tower Gallery,
Houston Texas
2002 Paradoja y Cohexistencia, Artistas Latinoamericanos, The IDB Cultural Center, Washington
1999 Das vanguardas ao fim do milénio, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1998 Femenino plural, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
1997 Iberoamérica pinta, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain; Museo José Luis Cuevas, México City
1996 America Latina 96, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
70-80-90 in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes;
Aspectos del Arte Argentino, Leverkusen, Germany1996 and Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires 1997
Masterpieces of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
1995 Arteargentina, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany
1993 La Nueva Imagen Argentina, Museo de Arte Moderno, San Pablo, Brazil
Expresiones Pintura Argentina Contemporánea, Museo de Arte Moderno
La Otra Cara, Kassel, Germany.
1992 Primera Bienal de Pintura Espíritu de Grecia Palais de Glace
Del informalismo a la nueva figuración, Feria de Arte de Buenos Aires,
1991 Los Ochenta en el MAM, Museo de Arte Moderno
Arte Argentino Contemporáneo, Donación Fundación Antorchas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
1990 Artistas de Buenos Aires, CAYC, Buenos Aires and Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de México
1989 Ideas e Imágenes de Argentina, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA
1988 Ocho Dibujantes Hispano Parlantes, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires; La Nueva Imagen,
Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte, Buenos Aires; Premio Fundación Fortabat,
Casa Fortabat
1987 Ideas e Imágenes de la Argentina, The Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland
Premio Revista Cultura Galería del Retiro
1986 De la Nueva Figuración a la Nueva Imagen en Argentina, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Confraternidad Sur, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay,
Latinoamérica Presente, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
40 Artists, 40 Countries, 40th Anniversary of the UNESCO, Paris
La Nueva Imagen, Jornadas de la Crítica '86
Del Pop-Art a la Nueva Imagen, Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay
Premio Fundación Fortabat, painting
1985 Ideas e Imágenes en la Argentina de Hoy, Museo de Arte Moderno de México;
Three Strains of Realism, Moscow; Arte y Política, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires
La Nueva Imagen, Centro Cultural Ciudad De Buenos Aires; Realismo Tres Vertientes,
Museo de América Madrid; Trois Aspects du Realisme en Argentine, Maison de
l'Amerique Latine, Paris, Moscow, Belgrade; del Pop-Art a la Nueva Imagen, Galería Ruth Benzacar
1984 Artistas en el Papel, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Muestra Internacional de Libros de Artistas, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Premio Parisiennes en las Artes, Estudio Giesso
Realismo Tres Vertientes, Museo de América, Madrid; Trois Aspects du Realisme en Argentine,
Maison de l'Amerique Latine, Paris, Moscow, Belgrade
Buenos Aires a través de sus Artistas, Centro Cultural de Buenos Aires and
The Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Germany; School of Art, Cairo, Egypt;
School of Architecture, Rome, Italy
Seven Argentine Painters, DAAD Gallery, Berlin; School of Art, Cairo
Premio Esso, drawing and painting, Museo Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba
Premio Fundación Fortabat, painting, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Nueva Imagen III, Galería del Buen Ayre, Jornadas de la Crítica
1983 El Objeto del Objeto, Museo de Arte Moderno
Premio Lufthansa, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
La Joven Generación, CAYC, Buenos Aires
7 Pintores, 7 Dibujantes, 7 Fotógrafos, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario
La Nueva Imagen, Jornadas de la Crítica, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Ex-presiones, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Los Artistas y el Tiempo Libre, Museo Sívori, Buenos Aires
Nueva Imagen de los Ochenta, CAYC, Homenaje de las Artes Plásticas a la democracia
1982 Premio Braque, painting, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Dos Lenguajes, Encuentro entre Jóvenes Plásticos y Músicos, Fundación San Telmo
La Nueva Imagen, Galería del Buen Ayre, Jornadas Internacionales de la Crítica
Fundación Gillette, Nuevos Valores de la Pintura Argentina
1981 Prize, drawing, 25 años del Museo de Arte Moderno
Realismos y Realismos, Jornadas de la Crítica, Galería del Retiro
1980 Premio Braque, drawing, Museo de Arte Moderno
1977 Premio Marcelo de Ridder, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
PRIZES AND AWARDS (selection)
2002 Honorable mention, Premio Latinoamericano de pintura Enersis 2002, Santiago de Chile
1997 First prize, Premio Costantini, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
1996 Grand Prize, drawing, XXXII Salón Nacional, Museo de Bellas Artes, Río Negro
Second Prize, painting, LXXIII Salón de Santa Fe, Museo Rosa Gallisteo de Rodríguez
Third Prize, painting, XLI Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano, Museo Sívori
First Prize, drawing, XLI Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano, Museo Sívori
1995 First Prize, Chandon Award, painting, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Second Prize, Telecom Award, painting, Palais de Glace
First Acquisition Prize, Quinquela Martín Prize, drawing, Museo Sívori
Gunther Prize, CAYC Prize
1994 Award for the best installation, Instalaciones III, XIII Jornadas Internacionales de la Crítica, Centro
Cultural Buenos Aires
First Prize, drawing, XXX Salón Nacional de Grabado y Dibujo, Museo de Bellas Artes, San Luis, Argentina
Third Prize, printmaking, XXXIX Salón Municipal Manuel Belgrano, Museo Sívori
Konex Prize, drawing
1992 Siemens Prize, painting, Segunda Medalla de Plata AACA, Jornadas Internacionales de la Crítica,
Konex Prize, drawing
1990 First Prize, drawing, Premio Espíritu de Grecia, Galería Praxis
1989 Third Prize, drawing, XXV Salón Nacional de Grabado y Dibujo, Palais de Glace
1984 Mention, Premio de Pintura Cándido Portinari, Latin American Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Mention, Premio Esso de Pintura y Dibujo 1984, Córdoba, Museo Caraffa, Fundación Esso 1984
First Prize, Union Carbide Prize
1983 Premio al Artista Joven del Año, Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte;
Second Prize, drawing, Salón Manuel Belgrano, Museo Sívori;
First Mention, collage, Bienal Fundación Arché, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes;
Mention, II Salón de Artes Plásticas Navarro Correas, drawing Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,1983 Mention, Prilidiano Pueyrredón Prize, Galería del Buen Ayre.
1982 First Acquisition Prize, drawing, Bienal Fundación Arché, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
HER WORK FORMS PART OF THE COLLECTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING MUSEUMS AND INSTITUTIONS (selection)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Malba-Colección Costantini, Museo Sívori; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia; Museo Castagnino/ Macro de Rosario, Argentina; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, USA; Museum of Latin American Art, USA; Chase Manhattan Bank Collection; The CitiBank Collection; The Deutsche Bank Collection and private collections in Argentina, the United States, Europe and Asia.
*when not indicated, the venues are in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Shaun El C. Leonardo
Born in New York, 1979
EDUCATION
2005 M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001 B.A., Visual Arts, Painting, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Sleeping Giant, RHYS/MENDES, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2008 El Debut de El Conquistador, La Curtiduria, Oaxaca, Mexico
2007 Self-portrait Fight, SCOPE Miami, FL
Self-portrait Fight, Performa07, El Museo del Barrio New York, NY
The Whole 'Dam Show, MARCH, New York, NY
El Conquistador, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Shaun El C. Leonardo, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 The Steel Cage Match, LMCC Swing Space Performance, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Nuit Blanche, commissioned project, Toronto, Canada, 2009
Fusebox09, contemporary arts festival, Austin, TX
An Intimate Affair,collaboration with Kalup Linzy,AVA Gallery, New York, NY.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, Independent Curators International, traveling exhibition.
2008 75th Anniversary of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
HEROIC, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Hard Targets - Masculinity and American Sports,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Some Things We Do Together, collaboration with Clifford Owens, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Snofrid - World Premier, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY & Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Mayor's Awards for Arts & Culture, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
The S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Corona Plaza, Center of Everywhere: Four Site-Specific Projects, Queens Museum of Art, NY
Foam of the Daze, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
Emergency Room, (performance censored) P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
2006 Kick It One Time, RUSH Arts in conjunction with Ingalls & Associates, Art Basel Miami, FL
Invade My Dreams, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Peekskill Project 2006,The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Self-portrait Icon, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Close Connections, Art Amsterdam video program, Amsterdam, Holland
The Masculine Box & Beyond, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
I Never Meant to Hurt You, Buzzer 30, Astoria, NY
God Complex: Images of Power, RUSH Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Return of the Living Legend, El C. vs. The Invisible Man, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Thick Lens, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lucha Libre, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
The Return of Futurism, 1015 Folsom, San Francisco, CA
Sol de Noche, Balazo 18, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2010 McColl Center Residency & Fellowship, Charlotte, NC
2008 Vermont Studio Center Residency & Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Painting
2007 Art Matters Grant, New York, NY (for residency in Oaxaca, Mexico)
Smack Mellon Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space Residency & Grant
2005 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon & Scholarship
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency & Grant
Verónica Virasoro
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1980.
Studies
2006 Art Workshop by Sergio Bazán/ artists focus group cordinated by “ Estudio 13”, General Roca, Río Negro, Argentina.
2004/2005 Contemporary Art Theory and Critic by Hugo Petruschansky
2000/2005 Visual art Workshop by Sergio Bazán.
2008 National Scolarship for audiovisual media. Fondo Nacional de las Artes
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Fantasy, Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires
2009 Acuario, Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires
2008 El Rey, Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires
2007 Prima íntima, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2004 Untitled, La Casona de los Olivera, Buenos Aires
2004 Al fondo de mi, Diseño Líquido, Buenos Aires
Group Exhibitions
2008 Platt Prize, Galería Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires
2008 Praxis international Art, Miami, Estados Unidos
2007/2008 Andreani Foundation Prize, Salta Contemporary art museum. Provincial Fine Arts Museum Dr. Juan Ramón Vidal, Corrientes. Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires. Juan B. Castagnino Museum, Rosario, Santa Fe.
2007 Contemporánea Vertientes - Pintura, Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires
2007 La Casona en el Recoleta – Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires
2006 Un proyecto –artists from Neuquén and Buenos Aires - General Roca, Río Negro
2006 Fervor 145: Sofía Bohtlingk, Victoria Musotto, Agustina Nuñez, Mercedes Perez San Martín, Mariana Vidal, Verónica Virasoro – Borges Cultural Centre , Buenos Aires
2005 Project A Contemporary Art Prize - Buenos Aires
2003 Banco Ciudad Foundation Prize for Visual Arts, MNBA, Buenos Aires
2003 Fourtell: María Fernanda Cardoso, Gilda Mantilla, Matilde Marín, Verónica Virasoro, Liliana Porter, Marguerite Day, Sandra Ramos, Geysell Capetillo - Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, Estados Unidos
2002 Banco Ciudad Foundation Prize for Visual Arts, MNBA, Buenos Aires
2002 "13b" (travelling exhibition) – Posadas Museum of Fine Arts, Misiones;
Resistencia Museum of Fine Arts, Chaco; La Plata Fine Arts Museum, Buenos Aires; Recoleta Cultural Centre, Buenos Aires