Julio Larraz
Julio Larraz was born in 1944, in Havana, Cuba. He is the son of a newspaper publisher and embarked upon his artistic journey at a very early age through drawing.
In 1961 he moved to Miami Florida with his family. In 1962 they moved to Washington, D.C. and in 1964 to New York City, where Larraz lived for the next five years. There he began to draw political caricatures which were published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and Vogue Magazine, among others.
In 1967 Larraz began working full time as a painter. He credits several New York artists. Including Burt Silverman, for teaching him various painting techniques. Four years later his first solo exhibition was held as the Pyramid Galleries in Washington, D.C..
In 1972 he had an exhibition at the New York School for Social Research in New York. A year later, his paintings were shown at the FAR Gallery in New York.
In 1976 he won awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The same year he was also awarded the Cintas Grant from the Institute of International Education.
In Larraz’s art there is the sunshine of Cuba, Miami and Tuscany, which was his home for four years; sunlight that collides with the objects on canvas. His past history as a Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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caricaturist and skilled graphic artist is evident in his political satires. Light is predominant in all of his canvases.
In 1977 Larraz moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, fascinated by the light and atmosphere of the barren hills of the Hondo Valley. It was there that he met Ron Hall, His future dealer, who is based in Texas.
In 1978 Larraz bought a home in Grandview, New York. There he met Nohra Haime whose New York gallery represented him until 1994.
In 1983 he moved to Paris, remaining there for two years. A year later Larraz moved to Miami, Florida. Larraz brings to us his Expressionist outbursts and burlesque portraits that reject every kind of abuse of power, prevarication and deliberate injustice, a moral veiled in a playful spirit. His paintings are multi-faceted and embrace numerous themes from political to landscapes to his many female subjects, one of his favorite. There are many cultural references to his native Cuba and a nod to his passion for Surrealism. He is considered one of the most important contemporary Latin American painters. He spent four years in Florence, Italy, between 1999 and 2003, before returning to Miami, where he currently lives.
Exhibitions:
Selected personal exhibitions
2018 Julio Larraz. Viaggio nella fantasia, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
2015 Omaggio a Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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2014 Del mare, dell’aria e di altre storie, The Puglisi Cosentino Foundation, Catania, Italia, promosso e organizzato dalla Fondazione Roma, Italia
2012 Julio Larraz, Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma, Italia
2011 Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
2010 Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
Julio Larraz, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spagna
2009 Julio Larraz: Recent Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Julio Larraz, The Bellevue, Biarritz, Francia
Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italia
2007 Giochi di Potere, Sculture monumentali e dipinti, Pietrasanta, Italia
2006 Julio Larraz. Giochi di potere, Piazza del Duomo, Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italia
Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
2005 Julio Larraz: trienta años de trabajo, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Quito, Ecuador, e Museo de Arte de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Julio Larraz, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italia
2004 Julio Larraz. Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Trienta años de trabajo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia e Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 L’ultimo sguardo dopo la Terra, Forni Galleria d’Arte, Bologna, Italia
2002 Oeuvres récentes: peintures et sculptures, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo Julio Larraz, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Parigi, Francia
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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El sueño es vida, Galleria Tega, Milano, Italia
2001 Julio Larraz, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Italia
2000 New Works, Marlborough Florida, Boca Raton, Florida e Galería A.M.S.
Marlborough, Santiago, Cile Julio Larraz, Galleria Tega, FIAC, Parigi, Francia
1999 Julio Larraz’s Sculptures, Galleria Tega, Art Miami, Miami, Florida e Luis Perez Galeria, ARCO, Madrid, Spagna
Julio Larraz, Galleria Tega, FIAC, Parigi, Francia
1998 Julio Larraz, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Julio Larraz, Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru
1997 Ron Hall Gallery, Art Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
1996 Watercolors and Pastels by Julio Larraz, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, USA
Recent Works by Julio Larraz, Ron Hall Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
1995 The Planets, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA
Julio Larraz, Gallerie Vallois, Parigi, Francia
1994 Julio Larraz, Ron Hall Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
1992 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, Illinois, USA
Witness to Silence, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1991 Moments in Time, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Works on Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Prints, Colleen Greco Gallery, Nyack, New York, USA
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1988 Ravel Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
Julio Larraz: Recent Paintings, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida, USA
1987 Larraz, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Messico
Mexico Hall Galleries, Dallas, Texas, USA
1986 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Julio Larraz: Watercolors and Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1985 Galleria II Gabbiano, Roma, Italia
Julio Larraz: Recent Paintings, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1984 Galería Iritarte, Bogotá, Colombia
Julio Larraz: Recent Paintings, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Galería Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama
1983 Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Works IL Gallery, Southampton, New York, USA
1982 Works IL Gallery, Southampton, New York, USA
Belle Arts Gallery, Nyack, New York, USA
Bacardi Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
Inter-American Art Gallery, New York, USA
1980 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, USA Hall Galeries, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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1979 Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, USA
1977 FAR Galleries, New York, USA
1976 Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
1974 FAR Galleries, New York, USA New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1972 New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1971 Pyramid Galleries, Washington D.C. , USA
Selected group exhibitions:
2015 Imaginarios Urbanos, Galeria Enlace – Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru
Art Wynwood, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2014 Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Papertrail, Latin American Masters, Santa Monica, California, USA
2013 The Armory Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Exposition de groupe, Marlborough Gallery, Monaco, USA
2011 Omaggio agli artisti, Galleria d’Arte Contini, Venezia, Italia
2010 The Miami Sculpture Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA
2009 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Latin American Art, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Wit & Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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2006 Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Sculptures monumentales à Sain-Tropez, La Citadelle, Saint Tropez, Francia
2003 Parcours figuratif, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Parigi, Francia
Paraiso Perdido. Aspectos del Paisaje en el Arte
Latinoamericano, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables Florida, USA
Modelvrouwen, The Hague Sculpture-Kloosterkerk, The Hague, Paesi Bassi
La Fête, Le Bellevue Galeries & Musées, Biarritz, France, e Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spagna
2002 Latin American Artists, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Biennale di Arte Sacra, Museo di Castello Ursino, Catania, Italia
Sobre el humor, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spagna
1999 Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Space, Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York e Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Silent Things, Secret Things, Still Life from Rembrandt to the Millenium, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Figuración internacional, Galería Marlborough, Madrid; Caja Burgos, Burgos, Spain; e Centro Cultural Rioja, Logroño, Spagna
Giardino botanico di Paul Klee, Museo di Arte Moderno di Catania, Catania, Italia
1998 Maestros Latinoamericanos, Galeria Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador
1997 Group Show, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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Octava Exposicion de Pintura y Escultura Latino Americana, Galeria Espacio, San Salvador, El Salvador
1996 Latin Viewpoints into the Mainstream, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA
1995 Magic & Mystery, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, USA
Point/Counterpoint, Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA
1994 Latin American Art Masters, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, USA
1993 Cuban Masters of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Leaving our Earth - the Artistic Vision, Taejon International Expo, Padiglione USA, Taejon, Corea del Sud
1991 Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Topography of a Landscape, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Fifth Anniversary, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The Sterlington Exhibit, Sterlington, New York, USA
1990 Voyages of the Modern Imagination. The Boat in Twentieth Century American Art, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, USA
Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Figuración Fabulación, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Contemporary & Modern Masters, Ron Hall Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
17 Contemporary Prints & Multiples, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Dali, DePalma, Haring, Kuzio, Larraz, Warhol, Montebello Park, Suffern, New York, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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42 Annual Academy Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Works on Hanji Paper, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Corea del Sud
Points of View in Landscape, M. Gutierrez Fine Art, Key Biscayne, Florida, USA
1989 Selections, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
June Moon. Lunar Reflections by Contemporary Artists, G.W. Einstein & C
Company, New York, USA Master Prints, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Figurative-Abstract, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
1988 Nocturne Portraying the Night, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Blues and Other Summer Delights, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
La Naturaleza Muerta, Galería Iriarte, Bogotá, Colombia
1986 Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape 1960-1 985, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
V Bienal de Artes Graficas, Museo de Arte Moderno, La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Maestros en la colección del Museo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
The Mount Aramah Exhibition, Orange County Historical Society, Arden, New York, USA
Major Works Gallery Artists, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA Pastels, Aleman Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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Outside Cuba, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
The Anatomy of Drawing, Hooks/Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Latin American Artists in New York Since 1970, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
Watercolors Plus, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Eccentric Images, RVS Fine Arts, Southampton, New York, USA
Inaugural Exhibition: New Space, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1984 Artistas Latinoamericanos en Paris, Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama, USA
Rotating, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Group Exhibition, Galleria II Gabbiano, Roma, Italia
MIRA, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Latin American Artists in New York, Arteconsult International, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
Gallery Artists. Recent Work, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
The Art of South America, Saint Paul’s Companies, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Julio Larraz-Hugo Robus, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, New York, USA
1983 Still Life. Thematic Survey, Zin-Lerner Gallery, New York, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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Maestros Latinoamericanos: obras sobre papel, Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama, USA
Group Exhibition, Rossi Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
1982 Clouds, Stuart-Neill Gallery, New York, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Mary Anne Martin Fine Arts, New York, USA
Diciembre en Iriarte, Galería Iriarte, Bogotá, Colombia e Bonino Gallery, New York, USA
1981 Dibujantes Latinoamericanos en Nueva York, Galeria Garcés Velasquez, Santa Fe Bogotá, Colombia V Bienal Del Grabado Latinoamericano, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1979 Modern Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Center for Inter- American Relations e Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, USA
Realism and Latin American Painting: The Seventies, Center for Inter-
American Relations, New York Five Realists, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, USA
1978 Image and illustration, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Art in Decoration, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1976 Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
A Sampling from the Academy Collection, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Recent Latin American Drawings (1960-1976). Lines of Vision, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington D.C., USA
1975 Nine Cuban Artists, Saint Peters College Art Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA Art in the Kitchen, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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1974 American Still Lifes, FAR Gallery, New York, USA
The Fine Art of Food, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, USA
Dubai, R29 Bluewaters Boulevard, Bluewaters Island. Forte dei Marmi, Via Carducci 14, 55047, Lucca, Italy. Tel. +971 4 232 2071 +39 0584 300290
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