THOMAS DANE GALLERY

Arturo Herrera

Selected Biography

Born 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela.
Lives and works in Berlin and New York.

MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL., 1992
BFA, University of Tulsa, OK., 1982

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010

Home

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

2009

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Bitte Warten

SOX, Berlin

2008

Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

2007

Arturo Herrera

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Arturo Herrera

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps

The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT

2006

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2005

Getrent, Aber Doch Zusammen

DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Zusammen Aber Getrennt

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy (catalogue)

Arturo Herrera

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2002

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

Fragments and Figments: Works on Paper

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (exhibition brochure)

2001

Hammer Projects: Arturo Herrera

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Hammer Project: Arturo Herrera

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Before We Leave

Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

You Go First

ICA Philadelphia, PA

2000

Party for Tom

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

1999

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

1998

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

The Art Institute of Chicago, IL.

Brent Sikkema/ Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

Almost Home

Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY

The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1996

Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL.

University Club, Chicago, IL.

Revolution Gallery, Ferndale, MI.

1995

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

1994

MWMWM, Chicago, IL.

1993

The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.

MWMWM, Chicago, IL.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

In A Room Anything Can Happen

CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson

Exhibition at the US-Ambassador Residence, Berlin

Cut & Paste

Galleri Susanne Ottesen

Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin

7th Mercosur Biennial 2009

Biennale, Porto Alegre

2008

Prospect 1.

New Orleans Biennial

Superstratum

KORAALBERG Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium

Always There

Max Hetzler, Berlin

2007

Comic-Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

2006

Big Juicy Paintings (And More): Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.

The New Collage

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY.

Antoss Berlin

Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

Carbonic Anhydride

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Transforming Chronologies: and Atlas of Drawings, Part Two

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

A Century of Collage

Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.

2005

Works on Paper

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux

The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.

Extreme Abstraction

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Drawing from The Modern, 1975 - 2005

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Exceeding Paint / Expanding Painting

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY.

2004

Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection

Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ / Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN.

Arturo Herrera, Jac Leirner and Tom Nozkowski

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY

Funny Cuts

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

MoMA at El Museo

El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Stalemate

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Latin American & Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo

El Museo del Barrio, New York

Initial Encounters

Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY., at The Arts Center of The Capital Region, Troy, NY.

Arte Contemporãnea Brasileira no Núcleo Histórico

24th Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Mata-razzo, São Paulo

2003

4th Mercosul Bienniale

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Twisting & Turning: Abstract Painting Now

Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX.

Sculpture

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York, NY

Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; University of North Texas, Denton; Western Washington University, Bellingham; Armory Center for the Arts, Old Pasadena

Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX.

Perforations

McKenzie Fine Art Inc., New York, NY

Dreamspaces/ Entresueños

Deutche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York, NY

The Moderns

Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy

2002

Urgent Painting

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Into the Woods

Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY.

AOP 2002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro. NC.

Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

ForwARt

Mont des Arts/ Kunstberg, BBL, Brussels, Belgium

Officina America ReteEmiliaRomagna

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola; Galleria Communale ex Pescheria, Via Pescheria, Cesena; Palazzo dell' Arengo, Rimini, Italy

Whitney Biennial

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Urgency

Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art

Rocket, London

The Photogenic: Photography Through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, PA.

Keep in Touch

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.

2001

The Americans

Barbican Art Galleries, Barbican Centre, London

NeverNeverLand

Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL.

Negative Spaces

Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY

Politicas de la diferencia Arte Iberoamericano de fin de siglo

Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil; MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Painting at the Edge of the World

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

Max2001. All About Paint

Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.

Locating Drawing

Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX.

2000

Deja-Vu

Art Miami, Miami, FL.

Group Show

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.

Colour Me Blind

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland

Blurry Lines

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sherboyan, WI.

Greater New York

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY.

Redrawing the Line

Art in General, New York, NY.

From a Distance: Approaching Landscape

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

A Collaborative Art: The Artist and the Printmaking Studio,

The Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX

Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990's from the Manilow Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

1999

Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Life Cycles

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Group Show

Brent Sikkema, New York, NY.

Colour Me Blind!

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

TroubleSpot, Painting

MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium

Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul, Turkey

1998

Arturo Herrera and Kara Walker

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

1997

Prep

Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA.

Twister

Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.

1996

Moving In

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Arturo Herrera and Carla Preiss

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.

Untitled

Gallery 312, Chicago, IL.

Plane Speak

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.

Clarity

NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL.

all girls

ACUD, Berlin, Germany

1995

Some Late 20th Century Abstraction

LACE, Los Angeles, CA

Fine

TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL.

Crystal Blue Persuassion

Feature, New York, NY.

Radius

213 Institute Place, Chicago, IL.

1994

Selections Spring '94: The Sick Rose

The Drawing Center, New York, NY

The Uncomfortable Show

Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Arturo Herrera and Steven Rotter

P.S. 122 New York, NY.

Spakalepsy

Feature, New York, NY

Amenities

Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI.

Chicago Billboards Project

School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.

More Fabulous Artists

Sotheby's Inc., Chicago, IL.

1993

Beck, Herrera, Killam, Pranger, Roberts

MWMWM, Chicago, IL.

Abstract Chicago

Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL.

1992

Flamesart

Gallery 400, Chicago, IL.

Not Working In L.A

Nomadic Site, Los Angeles, CA.

Fellowships

2005

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

New York, NY

2003

DAAD Fellowship

Berlin, Germany

1998

ArtPace Fellowship