Eugenio Espinoza

“In my art studies my interest was always in geometric art. Inspired by Gego’s rejection of modernist traditions and her profound interest in space and structure as well as in breaking the limits of expressive freedom, I decided to focus on the grid and a non-traditional use of the stretcher to create my work.”

Eugenio Espinoza

“Eugenio Espinoza embraces and challenges the modernist grid, not to mimic it but to oppose it with respect, irreverence and humor. “

Kerry Oliver-Smith

Born in 1950 in the highlands of Venezuela., Eugenio Espinoza studied under Gego at the Instituto de Diseno Newmann-Ince in Caracas, and at Pratt Institute, NYU and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Some of his latest group and solo shows include: Tropical, Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America, National Gallery Singapore (2023) Sur Moderno: Journeys of Abstraction, MoMA, New York (2019); Room for Failure, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA (2019); Human Applause, Bortolami, New York (2018); Raising the Curtain, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid, Spain (2017); Artevida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014) Permission to be Global, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, (2014); Good, Blue Day, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA (2019); Unlocking Something, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy (2017); Retro/Retrospective, 2016-1972, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain 2016); Unruly Supports, (1970 to 1980) at Perez Art Museum Miami, USA (2015).

A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Fine Arts for the U. S. and Canada(2017), Eugenio Espinoza work is in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, London, U.K.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fundacion Gego, Caracas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Fine Arts Museum of Houston, Texas; the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas; the Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderna, in Rio de Janeiro; the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL; and several other prestigious private and public collections.