ARTISTS:
Diógenes Ballester
Rimer Cardillo
José Castillo
Marina Gutierrez
Miguel Luciano
Radhamés Mejía
Fernando Salicrup
FOREWARD
by Jani Konstantinovski Puntos
INTRODUCTION
by Diógenes Ballester
EXHIBITION
ESSAY
by Taína Caragol, Art Historian
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1956, Playa de Ponce, Puerto Rico
EDUCATION
1986 M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1978 B.A. in Fine Arts, Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico
1974 Diploma, Miguel Pou Visual Arts School, Ponce, Puerto Rico
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 "Post-syncretism: History of the Collective Memory," Art for Change, New York, New York
2002 "Fertility," Washington Square Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000 "L'Energie de la Terre," l'Espace Confluences Galerie, Paris, France
1999 "Puerto Rico and the American Dream," online exhibition, PRDREAM.COM, La Galería
1995 "Spirits, Washington Square Gallery," San Francisco, California
1993 "Spiritual Celebration," Museum of the Americas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
1989 "Volition," Taller Boricua Art Gallery, New York New York
1986 "Diógenes Ballester: Exhibition in Salute to the VII San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking," Multiple Insurance Galleries, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 "The International Art-Project, World Art Collection – 1001 Reasons to Love the Earth," Millennium Art Collection, 2000 Foundation, Den Haag, The Netherlands, National Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
"Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop," Library of Congress, Washington, DC
2000 "Forum Multiculture d'Art Contemporain," Museum of Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
"The Myth in the Caribbean," Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
"The Treasures of the Puerto Rican Painting," Puerto Rican Museum of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 "Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," The Latin American Museum, Long Beach, California
1997 "Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Museum,Washington, DC
SELECTED
AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS
2001 Honorable Mention, Drawing, Tenth International Biennial of Print
and Drawing Exhibition 2001, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2000 Artist-in-Residence, Alfonso Arana Foundation Award, Paris, France
1996 Gold Medal Winner, Painting, Third Caribbean and Central America
Biennial of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Artist's Fellowship, NY Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
1983 Honorable Mention, VI San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean
Printmaking, San Juan, Puerto Rico