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FERNANDO BOTERO
BORN: 1932, Medellin, Columbia
EDUCATION:
1953-55 Studied fresco techniques in Florence, Italy
1952 Studied at the San Fernando Academt, Madrid, Spain
1950 Graduated from Medillin University
OVERVIEW:
Fernando Botero's distinctive style of smooth inflated shapes with unexpected shifts in scale is today instantly recognizable. Born in 1932 in Medellin, Colombia, Botero became interested in painting at an early age. He moved to Bogotá in 1951 and held his first one-man exhibition there at the Leo Matiz Gallery. The following year, at the age of twenty, he was awarded a Second Prize at the National Salon in Bogota. With the money he earned from the Salon award and his exhibitions, Botero traveled to Spain, France and Italy to study the work of the old masters. Botero moved to New York in 1960 and the following year the Museum of Modern Art acquired his painting, “Mona Lisa, Age Twelve” for its collection. Over the next years Botero continued to explore the manipulation of form for aesthetic effect, gradually eliminating all traces of brushwork and texture, opting instead for smooth inflated shapes.
His continuing attraction to the Colombia of his youth is reflected in paintings rooted in small town Colombian life. In 1973 Botero left New York for Paris and began to produce sculpture. Today Fernando Botero divides his time between Paris, New York and Tuscany. His paintings, sculptures, and drawings are exhibited and represented in museum collections throughout the world.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Palazzo Venezia, Rome
2004 The Art Museum, Singapore
2003 The Doge’s Palace and other locations, Venice
The Gemeente Museum, Aja
The Maillol Museum, Paris
2002 Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
2001 Moderna Musset, Stockholm
2000 The Museum of Antioquìa, Medellìn
City di Pietrasanta
1998–99 San Paolo Museum of Art, San Paolo
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro
The Monterey Museum of Contemporary Art
The Art Museum, Tel Aviv
1997 The National Musuum of Fine Arts, Santiago
The Modern Art Museum of Lugano
1996 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju
1996 The Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas
1994-95 Museo of Art, Takamatsu City
Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Mitsukoshi
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki
1994 Helsinki City Art Museum
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos, Aires
Paseo de Recolet, Madrid
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Paseo de Recoletes, Madrid
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
1992-93 Montecarlo Kunsthaus, Vienna
Champs-Elysées, Paris
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
1991 Exhibition Palace, Rome
1989 The Coro Museum of the Arts
The Contemporary Museum of Art, Caracas
The Rufino Tamayo Museum
1987 The Queen Sofia Center for the Arts, Madrid
1986 The Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas
Municipal Art Museum, Niigata
1986 Museum of Art, Alòbany
1985 The National Museum, Bogota
The Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico
1984 The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
The Everhard Museum, Scranton
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1983 The Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
1981 The Civic Museum of Art, Osaka
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1979 The d’Ixelles Museum, Brussels
The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The South Texas Museum of Art
1978 Sculpture Museum of the city of MarlMarl
1977 The Medellìn Museum of Art, Medellìn
1976 The Museum of Comtemporary Art, Caracas
1975 The Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
1972 Marlborough Gallery, New York
Buchholz, Munich
Claude Bernard, Paris
1969 Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964 Cordoba Bienale, Argentina
1962 7 Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota
1957 Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.
1955 Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota
1951 Leo Matiz Gallery, Bogota
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Astrup Museum, Oslo, Norway
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Collezione d’Arte Religiosa Moderna, Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Vatican City, Italy
Coleccion Fernando Botero, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Medellin, Colombia
Donacion Fernando Botero, Coleccion Banco de la Republica, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Gelerie-Verein, Munich, Germany
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Ho-am Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
M.H.K. Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
Museo d’Arte Moderna del Vaticano, Rome, Italy
Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
Staatgalerie Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
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