Arturo Herrera

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Lives: and works in Berlin and New York

Education
MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL., 1992
BFA, University of Tulsa, OK., 1982

Solo Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions


2008
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2007
Arturo Herrera
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT

Arturo Herrera
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
2006
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
2005
Getrent, Aber Doch Zusammen
DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

Arturo Herrera
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Zusammen Aber Getrennt
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2002
Fragments and Figments: Works on Paper
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2001
Hammer Projects: Arturo Herrera
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

You Go First
ICA Philadelphia, PA

Before We Leave
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2000
Party for Tom
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
1999
Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
Brent Sikkema/ Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

Almost Home
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY
The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
1996
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.
University Club, Chicago, IL.
Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI.
1994
MWMWM, Chicago, IL.
1993
The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
MWMWM, Chicago, IL.

Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
2006
A Century of Collage
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.

The New Collage
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY.

Transforming Chronologies: and Atlas of Drawings, Part Two
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Antoss Berlin
Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.

Carbonic Anhydride
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2005
Extreme Abstraction
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Exceeding Paint / Expanding Painting
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux
The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

Works on Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Drawing from The Modern, 1975 - 2005
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
2004
MoMA at El Museo
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

Funny Cuts
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Initial Encounters
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY., at The Arts Center of The Capital Region, Troy, NY.

Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection
Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ / Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN.
2003
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX.

Dreamspaces/ Entresuenos
Deutche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
North Texas, Denton, TX., Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Armory Center for the Arts, Old Pasadena, CA.

Perforations
McKenzie Fine Art Inc., New York, NY

Twisting & Turning: Abstract Painting Now
Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX.

Sculpture
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York, NY

Mercosul Biennial
Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Moderns
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
2002
Into the Woods
Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY.

AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro. NC.

Urgency
Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium

Urgent Painting
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, PA.

Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola; Galleria Communale ex Pescheria, Via Pescheria, Cesena, Palazzo dell' Arengo, Rimini, Italy

ForwARt
Mont des Arts/ Kunstberg, BBL, Brussels, Belgium

Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art
Rocket, London

Keep in Touch
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
2001
Locating Drawing
Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX.

Painting at the Edge of the World
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

The Americans
Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London

Negative Spaces
Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

Politicas de la diferencia Arte Iberoamericano de fin de siglo
Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil; MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

NeverNeverLand
Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL.

Max2001. All About Paint
Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
2000
Greater New York
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY.

Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990's from the Manilow Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

00
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.

Redrawing the Line
Art in General, New York, NY.

Deja-Vu
Art Miami, Miami, FL.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Group Show
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.

A Collaborative Art: The Artist and the Printmaking Studio,
The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX

Blurry Lines
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sherboyan, WI.

Colour Me Blind
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland

From a Distance: Approaching Landscape
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1999
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey

Life Cycles
Galerie f�r Zeitgen�ssische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Colour Me Blind!
W�rttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

TroubleSpot, Painting
MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium

Group Show
Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.
1998
Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
1997
Twister
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.

Prep
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA.
1996
Arturo Herrera and Carla Preiss
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.

all girls
ACUD, Berlin, Germany

Moving In
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Clarity
NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Plane Speak
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

Untitled
Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.
1995
Some Late 20th Century Abstraction
LACE, Los Angeles, CA

Crystal Blue Persuassion
Feature, New York, NY.

Fine
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL.

Radius
213 Institute Place, Chicago, IL.
1994
Chicago Billboards Project
School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.

More Fabulous Artists
Sotheby's Inc., Chicago, IL.

Selections Spring '94: The Sick Rose
The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Amenities
Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI.

Spakalepsy
Feature, New York, NY

Arturo Herrera and Steven Rotter
P.S. 122 New York, NY.

The Uncomfortable Show
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1993
Abstract Chicago
Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL.

Beck, Herrera, Killam, Pranger, Roberts
MWMWM, Chicago, IL.
1992
Not Working In L.A
Nomadic Site, Los Angeles, CA.

Flamesart
Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.





Grants/Awards
Fellowships

2005
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
New York, NY
2003
DAAD Fellowship
Berlin, Germany
1998
ArtPace Fellowship
San Antonio, TX.