Hospicio de Utopías Fallidas, exhibition view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018-19. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Hospicio de Utopías Fallidas, exhibition view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018-19. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Hospicio de Utopías Fallidas, exhibition view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018-19. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Hospicio de Utopías Fallidas, exhibition view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018-19. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Hospicio de Utopías Fallidas, exhibition view at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018-19. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
1968 – 2018, exhibition view at Parra & Romero Madrid, 2019. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
1968 – 2018, exhibition view at Parra & Romero Madrid, 2019. Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Somebody’s fragment, 1969-2013. Papier maché rock hung on a rope and document.
Línea ausente, etching, 1969
Garden, wall, door, table, etching, 1968
Luis Camnitzer
This is a mirror, you are a written sentence, 1966. Vacuum- formed polystyrene mounted on synthetic board
The Discovery of Geometry, gelatin silver print, 1978.
The Museum is a School, 2009. Postcards
EXHIBITIONS
2021-22
2018
2016
2013
2013
2011
PUBLICATIONS
Lives and works in Great Neck, NY.
EDUCATION
School of Fine Arts, Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Museo de arte contemporáneo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (MAR), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 – Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, US
– Towards an Aesthetic of Imbalance, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, US
– Nunca Nadie, Ni Yo Mismo, KIOSKO, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
– Towards an Aesthetic of Imbalance, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
2019 – Cuaderno de ejercicios, HANGAR – Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
– Luis Camnitzer 1968-2018, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
2018 – Hospice of Failed Utopias, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
– Luis Camnitzer, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
– 38°58’29.65’’N 1°26’34.24’’E, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain.
2017 – Short Stories, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, USA
2015 – Ejercicios, Casa de las Américas, La Habana, Cuba
2014 – Maïs, courge etcarotte: jeu surles rapports arbitraires du langage, Cortex Atletico,Bordeaux, France
2013 – El museo es una escuela, Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Seven, Project Wall, Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
– Luis Camnitzer, El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile
– Amanaplanacanalpanama, Galería Diablo Rosso, Panama
– The Map, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
– Luis Camnitzer, retrospective, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen
– Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
– Centro de Artes Visuales / Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay
2012 – Last Words, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX
– Luis Camnitzer, retrospective, curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen
– Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
– Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
– Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
– Art in Response, Museo de Art de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
2011 – Reflejos y Reflexiones, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain.
– The Assignment Book, Curated by Christiane Paul and Trebor Scholz, Parsons The New School for Design, New York,
NY.
– Luis Camnitzer, Curated by Hans-Michael Herzog and Katrin Steffen Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico.
– Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
– Luis Camnitzer, tranzitdisplay in collaboration with galería parásito, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Silvina
Arismendi.
– Memorial, Espacio de Memoria La Perla, Córdoba, Argentina.
– Luis Camnitzer, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
– Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany.
– Luis Camnitzer: Forewords and Last Words, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
2010 – Last Words – Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Dusseldorf.
– Memorial, Museo de la Memoria, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Luis Camnitzer, Memorial, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY.
– Luis Camnitzer, Retrospective, Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland.
2009 – Everything has a name, or the potential to be named, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom.
2008 – Last Words, Alexander Gray Associates, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL.
– Luis Camnitzer, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY.
2007 – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
2006 – Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.
2005 – Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2004 – Installation in White Box, New York, NY.
– Elevator installation, Art in General, New York, NY.
– Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2003 – Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
2002 – Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany, with Alfredo Jaar.
2001 – Anthony Giordano Gallery, Islip Museum at Dowling College, Oakdale, NY.
– The Kitchen, New York, NY.
2000 – The Tire Shop, Raleigh, NC.
– Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, TX.
– Arte y Enseñanza: La etica del poder, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain .
1997 – Patentanmeldung, Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany.
1996 -Tratado del Paisaje, Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1995 -City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC.
– Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY.
– AMANAPLANACANALAPANAMA, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
– Zanoobia, Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany.
1994 -Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
– Galería Tovar y Tovar, Bogotá, Colombia.
1993 – Subterraneo Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 – I.C.I., Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– Retrospective Exhibition 1966—1990, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH.
1991 – Parque Lussich, Punta del Este, Uruguay, with Mario Sagradini.
– Retrospective Exhibition 1966—1990, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
– Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
– Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy.
– Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
– M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.
1990 – Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY, with David Lamelas.
1989 – Museo Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia.
1988 – Centro Municipal Miraflores, Lima, Peru.
– Museo Histórico, Santa Clara, Cuba.
– Biennale, Pavillion of Uruguay, Venice, Italy.
– Messages to the Public, Time Square Spectacolor lightboard, Public Art Fund, New York, NY.
1987- Fototeca, Havana, Cuba.
– Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland.
– Artworks, Berlin, MD.
1986 – Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Massachusets College of Art, Boston, MA.
– The Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY.
– Artworks, Berlin, MD.
1985 – Permanent Installation, Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown, NY.
1984 – Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
– Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland.
– From the Uruguayan Torture Series, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
1983 – Gaderra Latinoamericana, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
– Museo de Gráfica y Dibujo Latinoamericano, Roldanillo, Colombia.
1982 -Galería Partes, Medellín, Colombia.
-Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia.
1980 – Cinemateca, Montevideo, Uruguay (1980–1981).
– Galerie 31, Strasburg, France.
– Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland.
– Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany.
1979 – Galería La Oficina, Medellín, Colombia.
– Cámara de Comercio, Medellín, Colombia.
– Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia.
1978 – Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY.
– C-Space Gallery, New York, NY.
– Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
1977 -Gallery for New Concepts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
– Commune di Adro, Brescia, Italy.
– Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia.
– Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
1976 – Galleria Ariete Grafica, Milan, Italy.
– Galerie Space, Wiesbaden, Germany.
– Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy.
– Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland.
1975 – Stadt Bibliothek, Mainz, Germany.
1974 – Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland.
1973 – Galleria Conz, Venice, Italy.
– Galería Colibrí, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
– Galleria Banco, Brescia, Italy.
1972 – Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy.
– Libreria Einaudi, Milan, Italy.
– Printshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1971 – C.L.I.P. Documents, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
1970 – Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA
– Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1969 – Mail Exhibition, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
– Associated American Artists, New York, NY.
– Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
1967 – Mail Exhibition, New York Graphic Workshop, New York, NY.
1966 – Amigos del Arte, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1964 – Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY.
1963 – Semanario Marcha, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Galería Sudamericana, New York, NY.
1962 – Galería Galatea, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1960 – Centro de Artes y Letras, Montevideo, Uruguay (1960–1961).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 – South South, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown, NY
– Intermingling Flux: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhao, China Sidewalks, Fences and Walls, Parra & Romero, Ibiza – Doble y Sombra, Parra & Romero, Madrid
2020 – All Contemporary Artists are Political, Factoria Santa Rosa, Santiago, Chile
2019 – Mental Border control, Museo de la Memoria, Cúcuta, Colombia
– Una piedra en el zapato, D’Nasco Studio, Havana, Cuba
– Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019, El Museo del Barrio, New York, US
– Words/Matter: Latin American Art and Language at the Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, US
– Trois fois rien – œuvres de la collection du Cnap, Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, France Idioglossia, School of Visual Arts, CP Projects Space, Brooklyn, US
– Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
– Idioglossia, School of Visual ARts, CP Projects Space, Brooklyn, NY
– Affective Utopia: Art as a Critical Tool, KADIST, Paris, France
2018 – Citizen Salon, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
– El arte de la desobediencia, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
– Perspectivas Latinas #18, Städtische galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
– Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confronting the Justice System, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, US
– Más allá de, SACO7, Antofagasta, Chile
– Conceptual Strategies: 1960-1970, Bergamin & Gomide,São Paulo, Brazil
– Memory Matters, Skissernas Museum for Public Art, Lund, Sweden
– Take Me (I’m Yours), Villa Médicis Académie de France à Rome, Italy
– Detonantes. Ejercicios para desbaratar imaginarios sobre arte y educación, Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Fernando Bonfiglioli, Córdoba, Argentina
– O Triângulo Atlântico, 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– Intervention, Centro de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay
– Falto de Palabra>/i>;, Luis Camnitzer & colectivo MASKI, NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
2017 – A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
– Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, Hus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
– Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reindhardt, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
– Lección de Arte, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
– Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
– Traduttore, Traditore, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, US
– Bienal Internacional de Curitiba 2017, Curitiba, Brazil
– Time as Landscape: Inquiries of Art and Science, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, US
– Take me (I’m Yours), Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pirelli; Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
– I am you, you are too, Walker Art Cemnter, Minneapolis, US
– Jesualdo, La palabra Mágica, Museo Figari, Montevideo, Uruguay
– #ideasforawall, curated by Lorenzo Fusi, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, Canada
– Legal Fictions, New Museum, New York
– Transhumance, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
– HOME- So Different, So Appealing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, US; Museum of Fine ARts, Houston, Texas, US
– Vacío Perfecto, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
– Punto de Partida. Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Sala de Arte Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
– The Child as Teacher: Art & Radical Pedagogy, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway
– First Day of Good Weather: Latin American Art, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 – (In) Mobiliario, Galería Habana, La Habana, Cuba
– Toda percepción es una interpretación: YOU ARE PART OF IT, curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa and Katrin Steffen, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Art Space, Miami, US
– The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
– ESTE ARTE 2016 Special Commissioned Project, Punta del ESte, Uruguay
– Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, US
– Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, South London Gallery, UK
– Introyección, Me & The curiosity, Barcelona, Spain
– Caleidoscopio y Rompecabezas, curated by Wendy Navarro, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas, Spain
– Media Networks: Systems and Communication, curated by Tanya Barson, Tate Modern, London, UK
– Falsificación Original, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
– Educação como matéria-prima Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM), São Paulo, Brazil
– Groupe Mobile, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
– SITE 20/20: Spring Installment, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
– Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki, New Zealand
2015 – Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
– Agitprop!, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
– Transmissions: ARt in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960 – 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
– Resistance Performed-Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Systems in Latin America, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
– Messages from a New America, 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
– Dark Mirror: Latin American Art since 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
– Species of Spaces, MACBA: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
– Imágenes desplazadas / Imágenes en el espacio, Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina ESpañola, San Juan, Puerto Rico
– Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
– The Coming Museum, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portuga
– Nómada 05 Manual de Operaciones, organized by the Escuela Experimental de Arte, Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
– Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
– The Translator’s Voice, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Lorraine, Metz, France; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Vigo, Spain; Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, Førd, Norway
2014 – Realidades en Conflicto, Espacio ArtNexus, Bogotá, Colombia
– Unsettled Landscapes, “SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, NM!
– artevida política [politics], curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
– Slow Future, Curated by Jota Castro, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
– Colonia Apócrifa, Imágenes de la colonialidad en España, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
– Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
– ¿Cuándo empieza el arte contemporáneo? Intervenciones desde América latina, curated by Andrea Giunta, arteBA
2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– EVA International Biennial, Limerick City, Ireland!
– Kongress der Artikulation (Congress of Articulation), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
– El día en que nos hicimos contemporáneos, curated by Rosina Cazali, Museo de Arte y Diseño, Costa Rica
– Yo, nosotros, el arte, curated by Laura Malosetti Costa, Espacio de Arte, Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Perduti nel Paesaggio, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy
– Maïs, courge et carotte: Jeur sur les rapports arbitraires du langage, curated by Florencia Chernajovsky, Cortex
Athletico, Bourdeaux, France
– Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, organized by tranzit.cz, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, NY
– Landscape, Museum ofModern and Contemporary ArtRovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2013 – DOING AND UNDERGOING AT TEACHERS COLLAGE, Columbia University, USA
– Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789-2012 (curated by Francesco Manacorda, Lynn Wray, and Eleanor
Clayton), Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom.
– América Latina 1960-2013, a survey of over five decades of Latin American photography, Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain, Paris, France
– The Project Wall, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, MO, USA
– THINGS FROM BEFORE / BESIDE / THINGS FROM AFTER / AROUND / THINGS OF THE MOMENT, Inaugural exhibition,
Parra & Romero | Ibiza, Spain
– Triennale Felbach, Germany
– Broken Spaces: Cut, Mark, and Gesture, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
– Open Work in Latin America and Beyond, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
– Two Parallel Lines: Hassan Sharif and Luis Camnitzer, Satellite, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
– Passing Time, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston MA
– Now There is also Nowhere, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
– More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum,
– University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
– Una posibilidad de escape. Para asaltar el estudio de la realidad y volver a grabar el universo.
– Colección MUSAC, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
– Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Germany
– Speaking and Thinking, Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 – Passing Time, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS.
– Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
– Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, IN.
2011 – Mapping the Horizon, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
– Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami.
– Mundo Nómades, FRAC Lorraine Collection, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– September 11, MoMA PS1, New York, NY.
– Rituals of the Art World, Ludlow 38/Goethe-Institut, New York, NY.
– Barely There, Curated by Luis Croquer, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Words Such as Painting and
– Sculpture, Annex14, Bern, Switzerland
– Passing Time – Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery – CFA Center for the Arts Wesleyan University,Connecticut
– An Exchange with Sol LeWitt – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA.
2010 – Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami.
– Landscape as an Attitude, Alexander Gray Associates, NY.
– Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
– Les Vigiles, les menteurs, les rêveurs, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
– Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
– Human, MAMAC, Nice, France.
– Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
– Optimismo Radical – Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York City, NY.
– Modelos para Armar, Pensar Latinoamérica desde la Colección MUSAC, Museo de Arte
– Contemporáneo, León, Spain.
– Objetos para un rato de inercia, Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain.
2009 – Tainted Love, Curated by Steven Lam, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY.
– The End:Analyzing Art in Troubled Times, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
– Everything Has a Name, or the Potential to be Named, Gasworks, London, United Kingdom.
– X Havana Biennial, Cuba.
– Pinta, The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Fair, New York, NY.
2008 – Power Structure, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY.
– Perverted by Theater, Apexart, New York, NY.
– Face to Face, Daros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.
– See History, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
– Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
– 42 Salón Nacional de Arte, Cali, Columbia.
– It is Not Neutral, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain.
2006 – Living History, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
– Bienal de Pontevedra, Spain.
– 50 Years Documenta, Kassel, Germany.
2005 – The Disappeared, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
2004 – Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,.CA.
– Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with León Ferrari and Francois Bucher.
– Liverpool Biennial of International Contemporary Art, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
2003 – M_ars, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria.
– Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2002 – Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany.
– Dialoge, Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany.
– Rayuela/Hopscotch, University of Scranton, PA.
2001 – La estetyka del sueño, Palacio Velázquez, Madrid, Spain.
– Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
– El final del eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain.
2000 – Versiones del Sur: 5 propuestas en torno al arte en Latinoamérica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Madrid, Spain.
– Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
– Worthless, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
– Vivencias/ Lebenserfahrung/ life experience, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
1999 – TRACE: Liverpool Biennial of International Contemporary Art, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
– Millenium Manhole Project for Con Edison, Municipal Arts Society, New York, NY.
1998 – Mouse: An American Icon, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
– Biennial of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
1997 -Biennial of Kwangju, Korea.
-Bienal do Mercosulr, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
-ARCO 97, Carla Stellweg Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
– Art Cologne 97, Galerie Basta, Germany
1996 – Face à l´histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
– Internacional Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.
– Art Cologne 96, Galerie Basta, Germany.
1995 – Intervenciones en el espacio, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
– Art Cologne 95, Galerie Basta, Germany.
– Point counter Point: Two views of 20th Century Latin American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
– Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965—1975, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1994 – Ante América, Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
– Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
– Reclaiming History, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
– Pequeño Formato Latinoamericano, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
– Working with Tradition: The Academic Artist, New York State Museum, Albany, NY.
1993 -Working with Tradition: The Academic Artist, Burchfield Art Center, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY.
– Home Away from Home, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.
– Bienal Poesía Visual/Experimental, Mexico City, Mexico.
– Pa´lante: Political Works from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY.
– Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
– Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
– The Return of the Exquisite Corpse, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
– L´Autre A Montevideo, Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Lateinamerikanische Kunst des XX Jahrhundert, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany.
– Ante América, Queens Museum, New York, NY.
– Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA.
– Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY.
1992 – 500 años de represión, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– Amériques Latines, Art Contemporain, Hôtel des Arts, Foundation Nationale de Arts, Paris, France.
– Uncommon Ground, College Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
– X Mostra da Gravura (special guest), Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil.
– Encounters/Displacements: Camnitzer, Jaar, Meireles, Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
– Disorientations, 494 Gallery, New York, NY.
– Ver América (The Bride of the Sun), Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
– Disorient, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
– Américas, Monastery of Santa Clara, Moguer, Spain.
– Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Estación Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain.
– Ante América, Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia.
1991 – El paisaje en el arte uruguayo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
– Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
– Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
– The Hybrid State, Exit Art Gallery, New York.
– Artists of Conscience, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
– Art of Resistence, Galería El Bohío, New York, NY.
– Denonciation, Usine Lucien Fromage Darnetal, Rouen, France.
– El paisaje en el arte uruguayo, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
– Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1990 – Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY.
– Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY.
– China, June 4, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.
– The Power of Words: An Aspect of Recent Documentary Photography, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY.
1989 – Out of Bounds: Contemporary Long Island Photographers, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY.
– Different War, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.
1988 – Estampes et livres d’artistes du XXe siecle: Enrichissiments du Cabinet des Estampes 1978-1986, Bibliotheque
Nationale, Paris, France
– Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
– The Debt, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY
– The Rosenberg Era, Travelling Exhibition (1988-1991)
– Group Material: Project Democracy (Politics and Elections), Dia Foundation, New York, NY.
– Project Democracy (Culture and Participation), Dia Foundation, New York, NY
– The Jewish Museum Collects, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
– The Latin American Spirit, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
– Affinities, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY, with Alfredo Jaar, Mel Edwards, Willie Birch, Carmen Lomas and Jenny Lee.
1987 – Latin American Artists in New York since 1970, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
– Drawings as Drawings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
1986 – Biennial of the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY.
– Imagining Antarctica, Museum of Linz, Austria.
– Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
– Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
– Biennial of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
1985 – Aquí, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
– Disinformation, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY.
– The Writing on the Wall, Islip Museum, East Islip, NY.
1984 – The Verbally Charged Image, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.
– Biennial of Havana, Cuba.
– Latin American Visual Thinking, Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, NY.
1983 – Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
– Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany (1983–1986).
– World Print IV, San Francisco, CA.
1982 – Documenta Urbana, Kassel, Germany.
1981 – Biennial of Art, Medellín, Colombia.
– Further Furniture, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY.
– CAPS, The State Museum, Albany, NY.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
– Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1980 – Buch Objekte, University of Freiburg, Germany.
– Third-World Biennial of Graphic Art, Baghdad, Iraq.
– Print Biennial of Biella, Italy.
1979 – Group Show with a Smile, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY.
– International Drawing Exhibition, Christ Church, New Zealand.
– British International Print Biennial, Bradford, United Kingdom.
– International Biennial of Prints, Tokyo, Japan.
1978 – Objects, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY.
– Biennial of Drawings, Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
– Kunst Messe, Basel, Switzerland.
– Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
– Group June, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
1977 – Biennial of Maracaibo, Venezuela.
– Galleria Zona, Florence, Italy.
– Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Group June, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
1976 – Norwegian International Print Biennial (1976—1982).
– Printmaking: New Forms, Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
– British International Print Biennial, Bradford, United Kingdom.
– Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, NY.
– Biennial of Drawings, Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
1975 – Yeshiva University, New York, NY.
– Last International Exhibition of Mail Art, Galería Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
– Biennial of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
1974 – British International Print Biennial, Bradford, United Kingdom.
– Biennial of Drawings, Rijeka, Yugoslavia.
– Print Biennial, Segovia, Spain.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
– Biennial of Tokyo, Japan.
1973 – Etching, Etc., Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
– Latin American Prints from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
– Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– Kunst Messe, Basel, Switzerland (1973–1975).
– Books by Artists, Tyler College, Philadelphia, PA.
– Biennial of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
1972 – Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
1971 – Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
1970 – Biennial of Krakow, Poland.
– Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
– Biennial of Cali, Colombia.
– Biennial of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.
– Galería Colibrí, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1969 – Printmaking in America, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom.
– Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY.
– Language Show, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY.
– Museum of Seattle, WA.
– Museum of Vancouver, Canada.
1968 – Art in Editions: New Approaches, Loeb Center, New York University, New York, NY.
– Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.
– Biennial of Chile, Chile.
1967 – Toward f.a.n.d.s.o., Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, NY, with Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo.
– Loeb Center, New York University, New York, NY.
– Galerie Latour, Geneva, Switzerland.
1965 – Contemporary Erotica, Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY.
– Artists from Monocle Magazine, Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY.
– Biennial of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
– Biennial of Chile, Chile.
1964 – Magnet, Galería Bonino, New York, NY.
– 100 Contemporary Prints, Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
1963 – Biennial of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
– Biennial of Chile, Chile.
1962 – Biennial of Tokyo, Japan.
1958 – Eighth Centenial Exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY THE ARTIST
2011 – The Last Book, curated by Luis Camnitzer, Aguilar Branch of the New York Public Library, New York, NY.
2009 – Facing Locality, curated by Luis Camnitzer, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin
Islands.
2007 – Fall Selections: Non-Declarative Drawing, The Drawing Center, curated by Luis Camnitzer, New York, NY.
– Negatec, curated by Luis Camnitzer, Telefonica, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2006 – Eleanore Mikus: From Shell to Skin, curated by Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2005 – LineAge, curated by Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2004 – León Ferrari: Politiscripts, curated by Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2003 – Internal Excess: Selections Fall 2003, curated by Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
2001 – From Sierra Maestra to La Habana: The Drawings of Chago, curated by Luis Camnitzer, The Drawing Center, New York,
NY.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
A.R.C.O. Corporation, New York, NY.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
Biblioteca Communale, Milan, Italy.
Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, TX.
Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizzi, Florence, Italy.
Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
CPPC, Austin, TX.
Daros-Latinaamerica, Zürich, Switzerland.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Library of Jerusalem, Israel.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY.
R.C.A. Corporation, New York, NY.
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
The Public Library, New York, NY.
The Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia.
Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela.
Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Gráfica y Dibujo Latinoamericano, Roldanillo, Colombia.
Museo El Barrio, New York, NY.
Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Museo Universitario, Mexico.
Museum Lodz, Poland.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia.
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway.
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX.
Museum of Malmo, Sweden.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Museum of Trenton, NJ.
Museum of Wiesbaden, Germany.
National Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, Iraq.
New York Public Library, New York, US
Queens Museum, New York, NY.
São Paulo Museum of Art, Brazil
Snite Museum, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, US
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Wagstaff Collection, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
Yeshiva University, New York, NY.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2011 – Frank Jewett Mather Award.
2002 – Konex Mercosur Award for Uruguay.
1998 – Latin American Art Critic of the Year Award, Argentine Association of Art Critics.
1991 – Art Matters Foundation.
1982 – Guggenheim Fellowship.
1978 – Creative Arts Program Services for Sculpture.
1974 – Prize, British International Print Biennial.
1970 – Prize, Biennial of Puerto Rico.
1968 – Purchase Prize, Museum of Trenton, New Jersey.
1965 – Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.
1961 – Guggenheim Fellowship.