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CARMEN HERRERA


Born in Havana, Cuba, May 1915.
Worked and lived in Paris, 1948-1953.
Currently lives and works in New York.

Studies

J.F. Edelman, Director of the Academy of San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba. Drawing and Painting.
Marymount College, Paris, France. Painting and Art History.
Architecture at Havana University.
Art Students League, New York.

Individual Exhibitions

1998   Carmen Herrera: The Black and White Paintings, El Museo del Barrio, New York.
1992   Duo Geo: Carmen Herrera-Ernesto Briel, Jadite Galleries, New York
1989   Rastovski Gallery, New York.
1987   Rastovski Gallery, New York.
1986   Two Minimalists, Four Decades Apart: Carmen Herrera-Elizabeth Poverono, Rastovski Gallery, New York.
1984-85   Carmen Herrera: A Retrospective, Alternative Museum, New York.
1965   Cisneros Gallery, New York.
1963   Trabia Gallery, New York.
1956   Galeria Sudamericana, New York.
1955   Eglinton Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1951   Lyceum, Havana, Cuba.

Group Exhibitions

2004   Concrete Realities, latincollector art center, New York.
1994   Paper Visions V, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT.
            Cuban Presence, Vista Gallery, New York.
            Cuban Artists: Expressions in Graphics, Jadite Galleries, New York.
1993   Artists Space, New York
1989   Rastovski Gallery, New York.
            The Latin American Spirit, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
1987   Rastovski Gallery, New York.
            Outside Cuba, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York.
            Outside Cuba, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.
1981   The Big Picture, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York.
1974   Center for Inter-American Relations, New York.
1973   Women Choose Women, Women Inter-Art, New York.
1972   C.W. Post, Long Island University, Brookville, NY.
            Contemporary Art Exhibition, Loeb Student Center, NYU, New York.
1969   Graphics 1969, Syracuse, NY.
1968   Five Latin American Artists at Work in New York, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York.
1967   Art Today, Syracuse, NY.
1965   New York Cuban Group, Cisneros Gallery, New York.
1962   Geometric Painting: Classic and Romantic, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1956   City Center, New York.
1953   Quelques Femmes Peintres, Galerie Olga Bogroff, Paris, France.
1952   Peintres de Paris, Salon d’art Moderne, Zurich, Switzerland.
1951   Art Cubain Contemporain, Musee de’art Moderne, Paris, France.
1952-1952   Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France.

Special Events

1994   Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera. 30 minute documentary about the life and career of the artist. PBS, National Broadcast. Producer/Director Ray Blanco.
1993   Cuban Artists Collection. Vol. II (Portfolio of Serigraphs). Miami Press Publishers & Distributors, Inc. Miami, Florida.

Collections

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT.
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation, New York University Medical Center, New York.
Cintas Foundation Collection, Institute of International Education, New York.
Museo de Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Museo de la Habana, Palacio de Bellas Artes Havana, Cuba.
Museo de la Habana, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.

Awards

Two Grants from the Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York.
Grant from the Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), 1977-1978.


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