ROBERTO CORTÁZAR CURRICULUM VITAE

Education 1980-82 Production Grant, National Institute of Fine Arts, City 1977-82 National School for the Fine Arts, "La Esmeralda", 1976-77 National School for Art Initiation, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City

Individual Exhibitions (Selection) 2015 2006-2007 Saturn and the Parricides, Amparo Collaboration with Derrick Cartwright, for Museum, Puebla, Mexico the Robert and Karen Hoehn Family 2005 Galleries of the University of San Diego, California, USA Galeria Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador Marcheur, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London 2004 2013 Recent Works, Praxis, Maco Feria de Arte The Silver Paintings, Bolsa Mexicana de Cotemporaneo 04, Mexico City, Mexico Valores, México D.F, Mexico 2003

2012 Art Miami 03, Miami, USA Dynamic: Blue Note After Rivera, Muestra 03, Mexico City, Mexico Museum of Art of San Diego, California, USA Chicago 03, Chicago, Illionis, USA 2011 Arte Americas 2003. Miami, Florida, USA Roberto Cortázar: Retrospective and FIA, 12a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, new Kinetic works, Puerta Roja, Hong Caracas, Venezuela Kong Corpus, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico 2002 City, Mexico Art Miami 02, Miami Beach, Florida, USA 2009-2010 Palm Springs International Art Fair 2002, Dismemberments, National Museum of Palm Desert, California, USA Art, Mexico City, Mexico Muestra 02, Monterrey, Mexico 2008 Two Periods, Four Series. Mexican Stock Chicago 02, Chicago Illionis, USA Exchange. Mexico City, Mexico LA Art Show 02, Los Angeles, California, 2007 UAS Saturn and the Parricides. Museum of Artissima 02, Turin, Italy Contemporary Art (MARCO) Monterrey, Mexico FIA, 11a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Saturn and the Parricides, Galería Omar Caracas, Venezuela Alonso, Mexico

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2001 Flight Test. Praxis. New York, USA Obscene Scenes, Praxis, Art Miami 01 Flight Evidence. Galeria Alfred Wild. International Art Exhibition, Miami Beach, Bogota, Colombia Florida, USA Postmodernism. National Museum of FIA, 10a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Fine Arts, Wing, Mexico Praxis, Caracas, Venezuela City, Mexico 2000 1994 Praxis, Art Miami 00, International Art Praxis. Art Miami 94. International Art Exhibition. Miami Beach, Florida, USA Exhibition. Miami Beach, Florida, USA FIA, 9a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Praxis. Latin American International Art Praxis, Caracas, Venezuela Exhibition, FIAL 94. Brussels, Belgium 1999 1992 Praxis, Art Miami 99, International Art Oro, Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City, Exhibition. Miami Beach, Florida Mexico FIA, 8a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, 1990 Praxis, Caracas Venezuela Desnudo (Nude), Galeria de Arte Actual Arte BA. Export Art, Argentina Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico 1998 Luz de Otoño (Autumn Light), Galeria Art Praxis, Art Miami 98, International Art Now, Gothenburg, Sweden Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida, USA Historia de los amores desmembrados FIA, 7a Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, (The story of dismembered loves), Private Praxis, Caracas Venezuela Art and Opuzen, Los Angeles, California Thirteen Figures in a Room, Praxis, New 1989 York, USA Timeless Anatomies, Museum of 1997 Monterrey, National Institute of Fine Arts, Praxis, Art Miami 97, International Art Monterrey, Mexico Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida, USA Timeless Anatomies, Regional Museum of Mexican Art. Ullako Gallery, Helsinki, Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Finland La Casa del Arte, Iturralde Gallery, La La Mar (The Sea), 123 Gallery, El Jolla, California, USA Salvador, El Salvador Recent Works, Galería Alejandro Gallo. 1996 Guadalajara, Mexico Art Miami 96, Praxis, International Art 1988 Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida Oils on Wood, Reynold Kerr Gallery, New Future Antiquity, Galeria Praxis, Mexico York, USA City Timeless Anatomies. National Museum of 1995 Modern Art (MAM), National Institute of Praxis, Art Miami 95, International Art Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico Exhibition. Miami Beach, Florida, USA 1987 Flight Test, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Nineteen eighty seven, Galeria Misrachi, Angeles, California, USA Mexico City, Mexico

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1986 1984 Recent Works. Galeria Arte Actual Drawings, Reynold Kerr, New York, USA Mexicano, Monterrey, Mexico Interior figures and elements, Galeria 1985 Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico Metropolitan University, Art Gallery, New Nude, Reynold Kerr Gallery, New York, Generations, Mexico City, Mexico USA The Mexico City Museum, Festival of 1983 forms, Mexico City, Mexico De Cabeza (Head Over Heels), Galeria Sloanne Racotta, Mexico City, Mexico

Collective Exhibitions (Selection) 2017 Museum of China, Guangdong Museum of Art, China Collectors Cabinet, Puerta Roja, Hong Kong 2005 Praxis, Art Miami 05, International Art 2015 Exhibition, Miami Beach, Florida, USA KIAF, Puerta Roja, Seoul, Korea Arte Americas 05, Miami, Florida Third Space, Puerta Roja, Hong Kong AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, Bazaar Art Jakarta, Puerta Roja, USA Indonesia Art Bo, Bogota, Colombia Beyond Borders, Puerta Roja, Hong Kong FIA, Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela 2014 Independence: The Cry of Dolores, Material Evocations. Museum of the Puerta Roja, Hong Kong Ministry of Finance, Mexico City, Mexico Recollective 3, Puerta Roja, Hong Kong 2004-2005 Opposing Matters, Puerta Roja, Hong Recent Works, 40 Years of the Museum Kong of Modern Art, National Institute of Fine 2013 Arts, Mexico City, Mexico Art Taipei, Puerta Roja, Taipei, Taiwan A River Opens to the Sea, Museum of Expose Vinculums’ , Galería Ethra, the Ministry of Finance, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico Mexico 2007 2004 Arte Americas 07, Miami, Florida, USA Praxis, Art Miami 04, Florida, USA 2006 Art Expo Palm Beach, Miami, USA Praxis. Art Miami 06, Miami Beach, Florida Saturno, Chicago 04, Chicago, Illinois , USA Arte Americas 06, Miami, Florida, USA 2003 Mexican Painting from the post-war Six Decades of "La Esmeralda", 1943- period to the end of the century, 2003, Central Gallery, The National Shanghai Art Museum, National Art Puerta Roja |1F, SOHO189, 189 Queen’s Road West |Sheung Wan | [email protected] | +852 2803 0332 © Copyright 2018 by Adriana Alvarez-Nichol. All rights reserved by Puerta Roja Limited. Hong Kong.

Centre of the Arts, National Institute of MARCO 96 Award, Museum of fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico Contemporary Art (MARCO). Monterrey, Mexico XX Century, Great Mexican Masters, Fin de siècle prodigies, Museum of V International Painting Bienal. Cuenca, Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico Ecuador XIII Latin American Painting and Figurative Contemporary Painters. Sculpture Exhibition, San Salvador, El Segundo Salón Bancomer. Mexico City Salvador 1995 Visual Binnacle 2003-2004, Ministry of Fourth Auction, Museum of Finance, Mexico City, Mexico Contemporary Art (MARCO). Monterrey, Mexico 2000 From Figurativism to Abstraction. Icons, Primer Salón de Arte, Bancomer, Mexico crosses, trades of art creators, Itinerant City Exhibition MARCO 95 Award, Museum of Of my Collection: 90 Artists of the Contemporary Art (MARCO). national network of creators, National Monterrey, Mexico Foundation for Culture and the Arts, 1994 Mexico City, Mexico Dreams and Fantasies, Museum of Contemporary Mexican Graphic, New Contemporary Art (MARCO). Annual Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Auction. Monterrey, Mexico Affairs, La Estampa National Museum, MARCO 94 Award, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico Contemporary Art (MARCO). Soleils Mexicains, Musée du Petit-Palais, Monterrey, Mexico Paris, France 1993 1999 Past and Present of Historical Eternal Mexico: Art and Permanence, Downtown, Palacio de Iturbide, Museum of the Fine Arts Palace, Banamex Cultural Foundation, Mexico National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico Bestiario, Museum of Contemporary Art 1997-1998 (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico Contemporary Mexican Painters and A View of Contemporary Art in Mexico, Sculptors, Galería de Arte Mexicano, FAI National Heritage Promotion, Ministry of Centro, Mexico City, Mexico Finance, Mexico City, Mexico 1997 Contemporary Art in Mexico, Museum A river opens to the Sea, Ministry of of Modern Art, , Finance Museum, Mexico City, Mexico INBA, Festival Europalia 1993, Ostende, Mexican Plastic Arts, Salón México, Belgium Mexican Embassy, Quito, Ecuador 1992 1996 Tradition and Avant-garde, Galería From South to South, Recoleta Cultural Misrachi, Mexico City, Mexico Centre. Buenos Aires, Argentina Mil novecientos noventa y dos, Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Annual Auction, Monterrey, Mexico

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Graphics International Triennial, Oslo, Transera Drawings, Reynold Kerr Gallery, Norway New York, USA To tell a story, a place in the space for 1987 the body, Mexican Cultural Institute, The Independence. Museum of Mexico Washington DC, USA City, Mexico City, Mexico 1991 Mexico Today: A new Vision, Museum of Vernissage to Maestro Roberto Leal de the University of Arizona, USA León and the collective presence. 1986 Galería Andrés Siegel. Mexico City, Variations on the Worldcup, National Mexico Autonomous University of Mexico, Myth and Magic in America: The Mexico City, Mexico Olmecs. Museum of Contemporary Art. Calaveras para artistas (Skulls for artists), (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Angels and Demons. Museum of Mexico Contemporary Art. Annual Auction, El Bodegon, V Biennale of Ibero- Monterrey, Mexico American Art, Mexico City, Mexico 1990 1985 XXX Anniversary, Galería Misrachi, Festival of Forms, Mexico City Museum Mexico City, Mexico New Image of Figurative Art, Tower XXI Painting International Festival, Gallery, New York, USA Cannes Sur-Mer Musseum, France Drawings, Reynold Kerry Gallery, New Open Air Museum, Balmori Building, York, USA Mexico City, Mexico New Generations, Art Gallery of the La Guadalupana, Museum of Metropolitan Autonomous University, Contemporary Art, Annual Auction, Mexico Monterrey, Mexico 1984 Art Expo Los Ángeles, Los Angeles, USA Artists Celebrating Orozco, Museum del Palacio Nacional de las Bellas Artes 1989 (National Institute of Fine Art), Mexico Mexican Painting today, tradition and City, Mexico innovation, Centro Cultural Alfa, Monterrey, Mexico La linea que Come la Mano, Galeria Sloanee Racotta, Mexico City, Mexico Dante y La Divina Comedia, Gallery of the National Auditorium, National El Desnudo (Nude), Galeria OMR, Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico Mexico Segunda Jornada, Poliforum Cultural International Prize, Jury Grants, Graphics Siquieros, Mexico City, Mexico International Triennial, Oslo, Norway Self Portrait, IV Biennale of Ibero- 1988 American Art. Mexico City, Mexico In the Age of Postmodernism, National

Museum of Modern Art, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City

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1983 Solidarity with Nicaragua. Museum of First Drawing Biennale, Special Prize Contemporary Art Alvar y Carmen T. De “Jose Luis Cuevas”, Plastic Arts National Carrillo Gil, National Institute of Fine Arts, Hall, Museum del Palacio Nacional de Mexico City, Mexico las Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Art), Mexico City, Mexico

Collaborations Cortázar collaborated with numerous academic institutions giving lectures, conferences, seminars and advisory covering historic, philosophical and theoretical aspects of art. He was a key contributor to the renewal of the academic plan for National School of Fine Arts. From 1989 to 1993 he was a founding member of the Consultative Council for the Mexican National Foundation for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) focusing on plastic arts. During these years he was jurer for the National Plan for Creators and the National Fund for Plastic Arts. During this period he also acted as academic tutor and mentor to many young artists.

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