CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ Born: 1923, Caracas, Venezuela Lives and

CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ Born: 1923, Caracas, Venezuela Lives and

CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ
Born:
1923, Caracas, Venezuela
Lives and works in Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
1999
1998
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Light Show, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Cruz-Diez: A cor no espaco e no tempo, Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and ambiguity of color, Jiangsu Provincial Art
Museum, Nanjing, China
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and ambiguity of color, Henan Art Museum,
Zhengzhou, China
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Jeonbuk, South
Korea
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Cruz-Diez: Color in Space, Dream Forest Arts Center, Sang Sang Tok Tok Gallery,
Seoul, South Korea
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El color en el espacio y en el tiempo, Museo de Arte
Latinoamericano (MALBA - Fundacion Constantini), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carlos Cruz-Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Environment Chromatic-Interferences. Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez,
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Circonstance et Ambiguite de la Couleur, Galerie Denise Rene, Espace Marais, Paris,
France.
Carlos Cruz-Diez. El Color Sucede, Museu d’Art Espanyol Cotemporani, Palma, Spain.
Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Cuenca, Spain
(In)formed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Americas Society, New York
Carte Blanche Denise Rene Gallery, Paris, France
La Couleur Dans L’Espace, Maison de l’Amerique llatine, Paris France Sicardi Gallery,
Houston, Texas
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Volume reel, couleur virtuelle, Maison des Arts, Chatillon, France
Certain 50 x 50 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Sala Trasnocho Arte Contacto TAC, Caracas,
Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez Die farbe im raum, Galerie Konkret Martin Worn, Sulzburg, Germany
Carlos Cruz-Diez Farbe im raum Kleinformate und Multiples, Galerie Emilia Suciu,
Ausstellungsdauer, Germany
Hommage a Cruz-Diez, Stand Meyer-Zafra, Paris, France
La Vida en el Color, Galeria Fundacion Previsora, Caracas, Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Works from the 1950’s to 1970’s, Sicardi
Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
22 of the future for the future of Vukovar, Muzeum Sztukiw Lodzi. Vukovar, Poland.
Universe Sprit du Geometrie, MADI Museum & Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Cruz-Diez. Arte en Guri, Museo de la Estampa y del Diseno Carlos Cruz-Diez,
Caracas, Venezuela
Cruz-Diez. Afiches. Exposicion Homenaje a los 80 anos de Carlos Cruz-Diez,
Museo de l Estamp y del Diseno Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela
Retrospectiva 1954-1998, Museo de Arte Moderno del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Cruz—Diez. El Color Auto! nomo, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesus Soto, Sala Multiple, Ciudad Bolivar,
Venezuela
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1989
1988
1985
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Un Pionero del Disenoen Venezuela. De la Empresa Familiar a la
Invencion de la Fisicromia. 1923-1959, Museo de la Estampa y del Diseno
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (CONAC), Caracas, Venezuela
Carlos Cruz-Diez “...und gebe dem Raum die Farbe”, Stadtishcen Museum,
Gelsenkirchen- Buer, Germany
Reflexion sobre el Color, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
Cromosaturacion. Carlos Cruz-Diez. Metamorfosis de lo Efimero. Paneles Pictorios y
Laberinto Sensorial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo
Duarte, Santo Domino, Dominican Republic.
Apuntes sobre el Color, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
Carlos Cruz-Diez. La Vision del Color, Museo de Arte de Maracay, Maracay,
Venezuela.
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Paris. Couleurs Additives. Sowie Ankaufe us den Jahren 19871990, Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany
Cruz-Diez. Color-Arcontecimiento, Museo de Arte Costarricense y Galeria Nacional de
Arte Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
Cruz-Diez. Inducciones Cromaticas, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Espacio
Simonetti, Valencia, Venezuela
Realites de la Peinture, Pouchkine Museum, Moscow & Leningrad, Soviet Union
Latin American Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England; National Museum + Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
1910–1980, Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Carlos Cruz-Diez. Die Autonomie der Farbe. Bilders – Plastiken – Objekte aus den
Jahren 1959-1988, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Moderne Galerie,
Bottrop, Germany
Cruz-Diez, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, Colombia
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
2009
2007
2006
Color on Color, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, California
North Looks South: Building the Latinamerican Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
After Image: Op Art of the 1960’s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, New York
An Architect Collects, University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
Arco 07, Stand Galeria Dan, Madrid, Spain
Artistes Estrangers a Paris 1900-2005, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Dialogue Cinetique, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Leopold-Hoesch, Hoeschplatz, Duezn, Germany
L’Abstraction Geometrique, Chateau de Tours, France
La Utopia Cinetica, Salas Caja, San Francisco, California
Los Cineticos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Optic Nerve: Perpetual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Cruz-Diez, Gego, Maggi, Soto & Tomasello, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Vancouver, Canada
60 Realites Nouvelles, Parc Floral de Paris, France
Art Basel, Stand Denise Rene, CH
Arte Cinetica, Spazio Boccioni, Milan, Italy
Chromatiques, Galerie Konkret, Sulzburg, Germany
Cruce de Miradas Coleccion Cisneros, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Diversas Constancias, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo, Brazil
European Neo-Constructivism of 1930-2000, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow,
Russia
Fla.g. Ships, Schwimmende Visionen, Museum de Sant Ratingen, Germany
Horizontales Verticales Sueles, Art Concret, Musee de Pontoise, Pontoise, France
2005
2004
2002
2000
1995
1993
1992
1989
1988
1986
1985
1972
1968
1967
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
La Utopia Cinetica 1955-1975, Centro Cultural Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Les Artistes s’Affranchissent, Parc Floral de Vincens, Salon de Timbre, France
Op Art, Joyce Palais Royal, Paris, France
Quadrature de Cercle, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK
Stetes Konkret, Galerie Lelau Sberg, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Sites of Latin American Abstraction, CIFO, Miami, Florida
Une Conquete de l’Art d’Amerique Latine, Oeuvres de la Fundacion Daniela Chapard,
Biarritz, France
Une Historie de Cinetisme, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Volume Reel, Coleur Virtuelle, Ovres de Carlos Cruz-Diez et Sculptures de Agueda
Lozano, Marie de Chatillon, France
Brought to Light : Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, TX
Inverted Utopias, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Parallel Stories, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Beyond Geometry, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
and the Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Cromosaturacion, XXV Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Heterotopias, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
La Transparence dans l’Art du XX Siecle, Musee des Beaux Arts Andre Malraux, La
Havre, France
Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century, Cologne Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mouvement, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sydney, Australia
Manifeste, Une historie parallele 1960- 1990, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New
York; Expo Seville 92, Spain; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
L’Art en Mouvement, Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul, France
Visiones de Americas Instituto de America, Sta. Fe Granada, Spain
Realites de la Peinture, Pouchkine Museum, Moscow & Leningrad, Soviet Union
Latin American Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England; National Museum + Moderna
Musee, Stockholm, Sweden; Palacio Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
La Couleur Seule, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Olympiad of Art, Seoul,
Korea
Contrastes de Forma Abstraccion Geometrica, 1910 -1980, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London, England
12 ans d’Art Contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Cinetisme, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, France France, Optique, Kunstnernes
hus Oslo, Norway
El Arte Cinetico y sus Origenes, Caracas, Venezuela
Lumiere et Mouvement, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
IX Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Lumiere et
Mouvement, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Lumiere, Mouvement et Optique, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Nouvelle Tendance, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
First Pilot Show of Kinetic Art, Signals, London, England
Il Bienal Americana de Arte Cordoba, Argentina
L’Aujourd’hui de Demain, Palais St. Vaast, Arras, France
Nove Tendencije 2, Zagreb, Croatia
Esquisse d’ un Salon, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Panorama de la Nouvelle Tendance, Amesterdam, The Netherlands
XXXI Biennale de Venezia, Italy Anti-Peinture, Hessenhuis, Anvers, Belgium
Le Mouvement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1960
1958
1953
Pittsburg International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Galerie Iris Clerc, Paris, France
1661-1961 Pintura Venezolana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Exposition International de Bruxelles, Venezuela Pavillion, Belgium
Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Selected Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, England
Centre National d’Art Contemporain Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Dr. Peter Ludwig Collection, Cologne, France
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Musee de Grenoble, France
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Modern Art, Taiwan
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Quadrat Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
Sonja Henie-Musee d’Art Moderne, Hovikodden, Oslo, Norway
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Manneheim, Germany
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Museum des 20, Jahrhunderst, Vienna, Austria
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Museo de Arte Moderno “Jesus Soto”, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Moderno, “La Tertulia”, Cali, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C.
Musee de la Chaux-des-Fonds, Switzerland
Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Bibliotheque Nationale, Zagreb, Croatia
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museo Civico, Turin, Italy
Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
Museo de la Solidaridad, Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile Museum
Rhode Island, School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Cuxhaven Otterndorf, Germany
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimee, Belgium
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Muzeum Okregowe, Chelm, Poland
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambrige University, Cambridge, England
Collection of Latin American Art, University of Essex, England
Stadtische Kunsthalle. Manneheim, Germany
Wurth Museum, Schawabish Hall, Germany
Selected Awards and Honors:
2012
2011
2010
2008
2007
2006
2002
1992
1981
1978
1976
1971
1969
1971
1970
Officer of the Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur, Paris, France
Prize for the best living artist of Estampa 2011 art fair, Madrid, Spain.
Award granted at the 31st Annual Spring Party, organized by Americas Society.
Golden Medal of Americas Society, Cipriani Wall Street, New York, United States.
Award granted at the 31st Annual Spring Party, organized by Americas Society.
AICA Award 2009, Asociacion Internacional de Criticos de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
Medal of Honor of the City of Marcigny, France.
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela.
Honorary Doctorate, Casa Rectoral, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas,
Venezuela.
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, France.
Gold Medal. Norwegian International Print Triennale, Fredrikstad, Norway.
Order “Andres Bello”, First Class, Caracas, Venezuela.
Prize “Carlos Raul Villanueva” XXXVI Salon de Arte Arturo Michelena, Valencia,
Venezuela
Prize “Intervencion del Arte en la Arquitectura”, VI Biennial of Architecture, Venezuela
National Prize of Fine Arts, Venezuela
Second Prize, Festival International de Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
International Painting Prize, Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil
First Prize, III American Art Biennial, Cordoba, Argentina
Selected Public Commissions:
1969
1975
1984
1975
Art dans la Rue, organized by le Centre National d'Art Contemporain. Paris, France.
Chromosaturation, Labyrinthe pour un lieu public in subway station Odeon, Boulevard
Saint Germain. Paris, France.
L'artiste et la ville. Chromatic action in Caracas. Venezuela
Chromoprisme Spacial, luminous projections in the sky. Series of crossings for
pedestrians in various avenues.
Induction Chromatique in La Pastora Square.
Induction Chromatique in a regular public bus.
Action Ephemere dans la Ville de Fortaleza. Crossings for pedestrians. Brazil.
L’Ete Marseillais, Chromatic action in Marseilles, France.
Induction Chromatique, Series of crossings for pedestrians in various avenues
Induction Chromatique in a regular public bus
Chromostructure Spaciale. 16 helium balloons of 4m diameter and 100m length.
They enlightened the night with color projectors.
Related Professional Activities:
1998
1997
1986-93
1972-73
1973-80
1965-95
1959-60
1958-60
1957
1953-55
1946-51
1940-45
Honorary Member of Academia de Ciencias, Arte y Letras, Merida, Venezuela
Appointed for life President and Member of Superior Council of “Museo de la
Estampa y del Diseno Carlos Cruz-Diez” Foundation, Caracas
Titular Professor and Director of the Art Unit of the Institute of Advanced Studies,
IDEA, Caracas, Venezuela
Professor of Kinetic Techniques, Ecole Superieur de Beaux Arts, and in Universite
d’Enseignement et de Recherches. Paris, France
Member of the jury for diplome, Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
Graphic Designer of Centre Culturel NOROIT, Arras, France
Typographie and Graphic Design Professor in the School of Journalism,
Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
Assistant Director and Professor, Caracas School of Fine Arts
Graphic Designer of Education Ministry publications, Caracas, Venezuela
Professor of History of Applied Art of the Caracas School of Fine Arts.
Designer and illustrator, El Nacional newspaper, Caracas, Venezuela
Creative Director at McCann-Erickson Advertising of Venezuela
Graphic Designer at the Creole Petroleum Corporation, Venezuela