ARTURO HERRERA BIOGRAPHY
BORN 1959, Caracas, Venezuela
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Arturo Herrera; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2018 Arturo Herrera: Hop; Kunst-Station im Hauptbahnhof Wolfsburg; Wolfsburg, Germany Arturo Herrera: You are here; Galleri Bo Bjerggaard; Copenhagen, Denmark 2017 Arturo Herrera: Paintings; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Arturo Herrera: Track ; Of cine Grandi Riparazioni; Turin, Italy Arturo Herrera: Sortario ; Bloomberg European Headquarters; London, England 2016 Arturo Herrera: Soave sia il vento; Galleria Franco Noero; Turin, Italy Arturo Herrera: Half-time; Tate Modern; London, England 2015 Arturo Herrera: Faculty Band; Thomas Dane Gallery; London, England Arturo Herrera: Day Before ; Tang Museum; Saratoga Springs, NY 2014 Arturo Herrera; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Ready for the Show: Arturo Herrera & Martin Arnold; Heldart at Bikini Berlin; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera: Little Bits of Modernism; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY 2013 Arturo Herrera: Adam; Linda Pace Foundation; San Antonio, TX Arturo Herrera; Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear; Cáceres, Spain Arturo Herrera: Books; Corbett vs. Dempsey; Chicago, IL 2012 Arturo Herrera; Corbett vs. Dempsey; Chicago, IL Arturo Herrera; Thomas Dane Gallery; London, England 2011 Arturo Herrera; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) ; Americas Society Art Gallery; New York, NY 2010 Arturo Herrera: Home; Haus am Waldsee; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera & David Schutter; Tony Wight Gallery; Chicago, IL 2009 Arturo Herrera; Galerie Max Hetzler; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera; Bitte Warten SOX; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera; Galeria Franco Noero; Torino, Italy Arturo Herrera; Sala TAC, Transnocho Arte Contacto; Caracas, Venezuela 2008 Arturo Herrera; GalerÃa Helga de Alvear; Madrid, Spain Arturo Herrera; Galeria Fortes Vilaça; São Paulo, Brazil Arturo Herrera; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2007 Arturo Herrera; Thomas Dane Gallery; London, England Arturo Herrera; Kettle’s Yard; Cambridge, England Arturo Herrera; Ikon Gallery; Birmingham, England Arturo Herrera: Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridge eld, CT 2006 Arturo Herrera; Galerie Max Hetzler; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2005 Arturo Herrera; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea; Santiago de Compostela, Spain Arturo Herrera; Galleria Franco Noero; Torino, Italy Arturo Herrera; DAAD Gallery, Getrent, Aber Doch Zusammen; Berlin, Germany Arturo Herrera; Galerie Max Hetzler, Zusammen Aber Getrennt; Berlin, Germany 2002 Arturo Herrera; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY Arturo Herrera: Fragments and Figments: Works on Paper; Art Gallery of Ontario; Toronto, Canada 2001 Arturo Herrera: You Go First; ICA Philadelphia; Philadelphia, PA Arturo Herrera: Before We Leave; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY Arturo Herrera; UCLA Hammer Museum; Los Angeles, CA 2000 Arturo Herrera: Party for Tom; PS1; New York, NY Arturo Herrera; Centre d'Art Contemporain; Geneva, Switzerland Arturo Herrera; ArtPace; San Antonio, TX Arturo Herrera; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY 1999 Arturo Herrera; Zeno X Gallery; Antwerp, Belgium 1998 Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker; Stephen Friedman Gallery; London, England Arturo Herrera: Almost Home; Dia Center for the Arts; New York, NY Arturo Herrera; The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL Arturo Herrera; Worcester Art Museum; Worcester, MA Arturo Herrera; The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago; Chicago, IL Arturo Herrera; Brent Sikkema/Wooster Gardens; New York, NY 1996 Arturo Herrera and Carla Preiss; Thread Waxing Space; New York, NY Arturo Herrera; Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage; Glen Ellyn, IL Arturo Herrera; University Club; Chicago, IL Arturo Herrera; Revolution Gallery; Ferndale, MI 1995 Arturo Herrera; Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL Arturo Herrera; Hermetic Gallery; Milwaukee, WI Arturo Herrera; Randolph Street Gallery; Chicago, IL 1994 Arturo Herrera and Steven Rotter; PS 122; New York, NY 1993 Arturo Herrera; The Center for Contemporary Arts; Santa Fe, NM Arturo Herrera; MWMWM; Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Brenda Goodman, Arturo Herrera, & Cameron Martin; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2019 The Whole Picture; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2018 Deconstrucción / Arte Contemporáneo Venezolano; ARCO; Madrid, Spain El Lenguaje del Color; Espacio Monitor; Caracas, Venezuela Inherent Structure; Wexner Center for the Arts; Columbus, OH This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists ; Institute of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, CA Dread and Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina; Greensboro, NC HIGH NOON; Arratia Beer; Berlin, Germany A Brief History of Abstraction; Rønnebæksholm; Næstved, Denmark Perspectivas Latinas #18; Städtische Galerie; Wolfsburg, Germany Ponti Herrera; Jochum Rodgers; Berlin, Germany The World on Paper – Deutsche Bank Collection; Palais Populaire; Berlin, Germany 2017 More Simply Put; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Turm der blauen Pferde; Haus am Waldsee; Berlin, Germany Colori; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art & Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea; Turin, Italy The Cof ns of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness ; Jack Shainman Gallery; New York, NY How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America & Latin America’s Disney; MAK Center for Art and Architecture; Los Angeles, CA 2016 Do Ask, Do Tell; Henrique Faria Fine Art; New York, NY Contralapared; Espacio Monitor; Caracas, Venezuela 2015 Hello Walls; Gladstone Gallery; New York, NY Construction/Destruction; Almine Rech Gallery; Paris, France By-Products; Haus am Lützowplatz; Berlin, Germany Skulptur; GRÖLLE pass: projects; Wuppertal, Germany Immersed; Linda Pace Foundation; San Antonio, TX 2014 New Editions; Pace Prints; New York, NY Contra/Señas de los 90; Sala Mendoza; Caracas, Venezuela Cut, Paste and Repair; Sicardi Gallery; Houston, TX Bookish; Corbett vs. Dempsey; Chicago, IL Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF; Tampa Museum of Art; Tampa, FL Minimal Baroque: Post-Minimalism and Contemporary Art; Rønnebæksholm; Naestved, Denmark 2013 Group Exhibition: Arlene Shechet, Arturo Herrera, Kay Rosen, Tony Feher; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Order, Chaos & the Space Between: Contemporary Latin American Art from the Diana & Bruce Halle Collection; Phoenix Art Museum; Phoenix, AZ Comic Future; Ballroom Marfa; Marfa, TX On Painting; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM); Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Sobre Papel/On Paper; Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear; Cáceres, Spain KABOOM! Comic in Der Kunst /Comics in Art; Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst; Bremen, Germany Auf Zeit, Wandbilder, Bildwände; Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Bielefeld, Germany 2012 Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Recent Editions; Pace Prints; New York, NY 2011 Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 4: Material Intelligence; Whitechapel Art Gallery; London, England 2010 Visionaries: Contemporary Art from Santa Barbara’s Private Collections; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Santa Barbara, CA 89 Km. Colección CGAC; Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo; Vigo, Spain Then & Now: Abstraction in Latin American Art from 1950 to Present; 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank; New York, NY Permanent Trouble: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Art Kopp East German Forum; Galerie Regensburg; Regensburg, Germany Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing; Lehman College Art Gallery; Bronx, NY Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney; Postmasters Gallery; New York, NY In Side Out; Susan Inglett Gallery; New York, NY 2009 In a Room Anything Can Happen; CCS Bard Hessel Museum; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Group Exhibition; US-Ambassador Residence; Berlin, Germany Cut & Paste ; Galleri Susanne Ottesen; Copenhagen, Denmark 7th Mercosur 2009 Biennale; Porto Alegre, Brazil Building on a Cliff: Matt Connors, Arturo Hererra, Merlin James; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY 2008 Order. Desire. Light. : An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings; Irish Museum of Modern Art; Dublin, Ireland Always There; Galerie Max Hetzler; Berlin, Germany Superstratum; Koraalberg Gallery; Antwerp, Belgium Prospect.1; New Orleans, LA Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation; The Smart Museum at the University of Chicago; Chicago, IL La Invencion de lo Cotidiano; Acervos del Museo Nacional de Arte y de la Collecion Jumex; Mexico City, Mexico 2007 Group Exhibition; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions; Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY Whole Fragment; Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada; Reno, NV In Context, Collage + Abstraction; Pavel Zoubok Gallery; New York, NY Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making; Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY 2006 Carbonic Anhydride; Galerie Max Hetzler; Berlin, Germany Antoss Berlin; Haus Am Waldsee; Berlin, Germany The New Collage; Pavel Zoubok Gallery; New York, NY Transforming Chronologies: an Atlas of Drawings, Part Two; Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection; Miami Art Museum; Miami, FL 2005 Group Exhibition; Sikkema Jenkins & Co.; New York, NY Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005; Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY Extreme Abstraction; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, NY Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux; Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art; Portland, ME Exceeding Paint/Expanding Painting; Pratt Manhattan Gallery; New York, NY Works on Paper; Galerie Max Hetzler; Berlin, Germany 2004 Funny Cuts; Staatsgalerie; Stuttgart, Germany Group Exhibition; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY MoMA at El Museo; El Museo del Barrio; New York, NY Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection; Tucson Museum of Art; Tucson, AZ Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection; Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University; Greencastle, IN Initial Encounters; The Arts Center of The Capital Region; Troy, NY Dreamspaces/Entresueños; Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery; New York, NY Mercosul Biennial; Porto Alegre, Brazil Splat Boom Pow! The In uence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Museum; Houston, TX Twisting & Turning: Abstract Painting Now; Blue Star Contemporary Art; San Antonio, TX Sculpture; Grant Selwyn Fine Art; New York, NY Perforations; McKenzie Fine Art Inc.; New York, NY 2003 Group Exhibition; Galleria Franco Noero; Torino, Italy The Moderns; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli; Torino, Italy Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation; Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburg, PA Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; New Orleans, LA Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation; University of North Texas Art Gallery; Denton, TX Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation; Western Washington University; Bellingham, WA Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation; Armory Center for the Arts; Old Pasadena, CA 2002 Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Greensboro, NC Urgency; Objectif; Antwerp, Belgium ForwArt; Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, BBL; Brussels, Belgium Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art; Rocket; London, England Of cina America Rete Emilia Romagna; Galleria d'Arte Moderna; Bologna, Italy Comunale ex Pescheria Via Pescheria, Cesena; Palazzo dell' Arengo; Rimini, Italy Keep in Touch; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art,; Chicago, IL The Photogenic: Photography through it's Metaphors in Contemporary Art; Institute of Contemporary Art; Philadelphia, PA Whitney Biennial; Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY Urgent Painting; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Paris, France Into the Woods; Julie Saul Gallery; New York, NY 2001 The Americans; Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre; London, England Max2001. All About Paint; Art Museum of The University of Memphis; Memphis, TN Negative Spaces; Marvelli Gallery; New York, NY NeverNeverLand; Contemporary Art Museum; Tampa, FL Locating Drawing; Lawing Gallery; Houston, TX Painting at the Edge of the World; The Walker Art Center; Minneapolis, MN PolÃticas de la diferencia; Arte Iberoamericano de n de siglo; Pavillao Pinacoteca do Estado; Sao Paulo, Brazil PolÃticas de la diferencia; Arte Iberoamericano de n de siglo; MALBA; Buenos Aires, Argentina PolÃticas de la diferencia; Arte Iberoamericano de n de siglo; Museo So a Imber; Caracas, Venezuela PolÃticas de la diferencia; Arte Iberoamericano de n de siglo; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico ; Santurce, Puerto Rico PolÃticas de la diferencia; Arte Iberoamericano de n de siglo; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico ; Santurce, Puerto Rico 2000 Blurry Lines; John Michael Kohler Arts Center; Sheboygan, WI A Collaborative Art: The Artist and the Printmaking Studio; The Museum of Printing History; Houston, TX Dejà -Vu; Art Miami 2000; Miami, FL Greater New York; PS1; New York, NY Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL 00; Barbara Gladstone Gallery; New York, NY Color Me Blind!; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Dundee, Scotland Group Exhibition; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY From a Distance: Approaching Landscape; The Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, MA Redrawing the Line; Art in General; New York, NY 1999 Life Cycles; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst; Leipzig, Germany Color Me Blind!; Württembergischer Kunstverein; Stuttgart, Germany Istanbul Biennial; Istanbul, Turkey TroubleSpot: Painting; MUHKA; Antwerp, Belgium Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999; Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston, MA Group Exhibition; Brent Sikkema; New York, NY 1997 Twister; Real Art Ways; Hartford, CT Prep; Gallery 16; San Francisco, CA 1996 Untitled; Gallery 312; Chicago, IL all girls; ACUD; Berlin, Germany Moving In; Randolph Street Gallery; Chicago, IL Clarity; NIU Gallery; Chicago, IL Plane Speak; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, IL 1995 Crystal Blue Persuasion; Feature, Inc.; New York, NY Fine; TBA Exhibition Space; Chicago, IL Raduis; 213 Institute Place; Chicago, IL Some Late 20th Century Abstraction; LACE; Los Angeles, CA 1994 The Uncomfortable Show; Ten in One Gallery; Chicago, IL Sparkalepsy; Feature, Inc.; New York, NY Amenities; Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; Milwaukee, WI Selections Spring ‘94: The Sick Rose; The Drawing Center; New York, NY More Famous Artists; Sotheby's Inc.; Chicago, IL Chicago Billboards Project; School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Chicago; Chicago, IL 1993 Abstract Chicago; Klein Art Works; Chicago, IL Beck, Herrera, Killam, Pranger, Roberts; MWMWM Gallery; Chicago, IL 1992 Not Working in L.A.; Nomadic Site; Los Angeles, CA Group Exhibition; Flamesart, Gallery 400; Chicago, IL