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.