EUGENIO ESPINOZA
Born in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela, 1950
Lives and works in Gainesville, Florida, USA
Education
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY - 1981
New York University, New York, NY - 1980
Pratt Graphic Arts Center, New York, NY - 1977-79
Instituto de Diseño Newmann-Ince, Caracas, Venezuela 1970-74 Escuela de Artes Plasticas Cristobal Rojas, Caracas, Venezuela 1966-71
Selected Individual Exhibitions
2017 Unlocking Something, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy
2016 Retro/Retrospectiva, 2016-1972, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
2015 Diorama, Blackston, New York, NY
2015 Eugenio Espinoza: Unruly Supports: (1970 to 1980), March - August, 2015,
Perez Art Museum Miami
Solo exhibition at Galleria Eduardo Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013 Out of Focus, Alambrico at Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2013 Going Blind Faith, Blackston, New York, NY
2012 Numbers, Negativa Moderna, Archer, FL
2011 X & Y, El Anexo, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 X;Suspendidos, Sala Mendoza,,Caracas,Venezuela
2008 The Rite of Spring, Periferico, Caracas, Venezuela
Eugenio Espinoza 1972-2008, INOVA, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2007 Three Perspectives CIFO, Miami, Florida
Negativa Moderna, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
2004 Tequeños, Museo Cruz-Diez Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Linea Blanca, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1992 Orla, Museo de Arte Conteporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas
1989 Paramount Pictures, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas
1988 Paintings, Galeria Garces-Velasquez, Bogota, Colombia
1985 Karakana, Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela
1974 Photography, Drawings, Prints, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1973 Textiles, Grid, Post Cards, Conkright Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1972 Impenetrable, Ateneo de Caracas
20 Recent Works, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Raising the Curtain, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid, Spain
2016 You Are Part of It, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
2014 Artevida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Rodrigo Moura
2014 Permission to be Global, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2013 Americana, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
2013 Remembering/Providing/Resisting, Centro Cultural Espanol, Miami, FL
2011 Frames and Documents, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
2010 Art Basel Miami Beach, Faria-Fabregas Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2010 Embracing Modernity, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2009 Space as Medium, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2008 MiArt, Milan, Italy
Pedacito de Cielo, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007 Conditions of Display, Locust Projects and The Moore Space, Miami
2005 Impenetrable 2005, Locust Projects, Wynwood District, Miami, Florida
Artissima 12, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, Torino Italia
2003 Geometrias, The Cisneros Collection, exhibited in Latin America
Hump, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, Florida
2002 Tarde, Temprano y Pronto, Casas Riegner, Miami, Florida
2002 Motel, The San Juan Motel, Miami, Florida
2001 Art Baba Lab6, Miami, Florida
2000 Utopolis, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas
1999 Arte Latinoamericano Fin de Milenio, Centro Cultural Cultorgest, Lisbon, Portugal
1998 Contemporanea, Adquisiciones 1994-98, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
La Resureccion del Cadaver Exquisito, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
III Bienal del Barro de America, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas,
1997 La Invencion de la Continuidad, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
1996 Exposicion Interamericana de Arte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
La Abstraccion en la Coleccion del MBA, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
Transatlantic, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Sin Fronteras, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Mesotica, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
1994 Exhibition, Museo de las Artes, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
1993 CCS-10/Arte Venezolano Actual, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas
Al Sur del Sur, Salas Nacionales de Cultura, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991 De Venezuela, 30 Años de Arte Contemporaneo, Pabellon de las Artes, Expo-Spain
1990 Nueva Pintura Abstracta, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesus Soto, Venezuela
1989 I Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador
1985 XVIII Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 Jovenes Creadores, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas
Exposición 1984, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
1983 Autorretratos, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas
Alternativaza I, Ateneo de Caracas
1982 Proyecto OVSI, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
1981 Accion en Margarita, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Francisco Narváez, Venezuela
1979 Multimedia Internacional, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Arte Correo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Video Tape Show, New York University, New York
1977 Reunion de Artistas y Criticos Latinoamericanos, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
1975 Jovenes Dibujantes, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
1973 Grafica Internacional, Galeria Conkright, Caracas
Happenings in different public spaces with young people using the grid canvas in different situations
Grid canvas mailed to different people in the United States and Canada: use of the canvas documented and returned to the artist
1972 Impenetrable, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Espinoza, June 1972, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Colectiva de Dibujos, Ateneo de Caracas
Series of experiments with Claudio Perna, using photography, films and record tapes.
1971 Joven Actualidad Venezolana, Estudio Actual, Caracas
Salon Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
El Hatillo: placement of grid canvas in different landscapes, documented in photography
La Trinidad: placement of a line (1 meter wide contact paper) in different landscapes
Tachon series in wood placed and photographed in different landscapes
Three installations at Casa de la Cultura, Maracay, Venezuela
Permanent Collections
Tate Modern, London, U.K.
MOMA, New York, NY, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, USA
Fine Arts Museum of Houston, Texas, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
The Harn, Gainesville, FL, USA
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Bogota, Colombia
Fundacion Gego
The Cisneros Collection, New York, NY
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Commerce Bank, Caracas, Venezuela
Banco Mercantil, Caracas, Venezuela
Selected Books and Catalogues
Laseca, Roc. Retro/Retrospectiva. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain (2016)
Fuenmayor, Jesus. Unruly Supports (1970-1980). Perez Art Museum Miami (2015)
Fuenmayor, Jesus. Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict. Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. Miami (2014)
Mergel, Jen and Munsell, Liz in consultation with Fuenmayor, Jesus. Permission to be Global
Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (2013)
Johnson-Montenegro, Donald and Bruder, Anne.Conceptual Geographies/Frames and Documents. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. Miriam and Ira D.Wallach Art Gallery, New York (2013)
Moreno, Gean. Eugenio Espinoza Going Blind Faith, Blackston Gallery, New York (2013)
Moralels, Rene. Space as Medium, Miami Art Museum, Miami (2009)
Portillo, Zelma. Eugenio Espinoza. Colección Arte Venezolano. (2009)
Frank, Nicholas. Eugenio Espinoza. INOVA, Wisconsin. (2008)
Barlow, Margaret. 3 Perspectives. Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (2007)
Museo de Bellas Artes Dibujos Colecciones Vol II, Caracas. (2007)
Fuenmayor, Jesus. Arte da Anerica do Sul, Ponto de Viragem. Serralves Museum, (2006)
Moreno, Gean. Eugenio Espinoza. artUS, issue 14 July-September (2006)
Moreno, Gean. Self-Archeology: Eugenio Espinoza Impenetrables. Art Papers July-August (2006)
Gonzalez, Julieta. ArtNexus review. Miami (2006)
Costa, Eduardo. Eugenio Espinoza: Beyond Geometry, Conceptualism and Earth Art. Arte al Dia (2005)
Benko, Susana. Eugenio Espinoza: Tequenos. Museo Carlos Cruz Diez, Caracas (2004)
Geo-Metries. Latin American Geometric Abstraction from the Cisneros Collection, New York (2003)
NY Arts - International Edition, Vol 8, No 6-8 (2003)
ArtNexus - Art Miami (2003)
Geometria como Vanguardia, Fundacion Banco Mercantil (2002)
Fin de Mundo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (2000)
Christies, Auction to benefit the Institute of Contemporary Art (1999)
La Invencion de la Continuidad, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas (1997)
Latin American Art, Phaidon (1996)
CCS-10, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas (1993)
Once Tipos, Juan Carlos Palenzuela (1993)
Orla, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas (1992)
Arte de America, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (1988)
Eugenio Espinoza, Paez, Pellegrino, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesus Soto (1987)
Abstract Art Today, Venezuelan Art Center, New York (1987)
Al Filo de la Modernidad, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (1986)
Eugenio Espinoza, Venezuela en la XVIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Museo de Bellas Artes (1985)
Karakana, Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas (1985)
Blanco, Lurdes, Cincoincidentes, Museo de Barquisimeto, (1984)
Zanini, Walter, 11 Tipos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, New York University (1976)
Espinoza, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas (1972)
Honors/Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2017
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2011
Young Artists Exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber – 1989