SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Special Project Rolando Peña, Maria Baró Gallery, Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2019 Less is More – Homage to John Cage, WhiteBox Harlem, New York, USA

2018 Foundation for the Totality, The Inclusive Way, Pinta Miami, USA

2017 Big Bang, Connect Now Room, Art Connection Foundation, Miami, USA

2016 Black Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami, Miami, USA

2015 Mene Digital 1987–2015, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela

2015 Oro Negro, Centro de Bellas Artes de Maracaibo, Maracaibo, Venezuela

2014 Black Over Black, Alliance Française, Caracas, Venezuela

2010 Make Oil Green, La Caja–Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela

2005 Dark Energy: Tribute to Albert Einstein, Centro Cultural of the Corp Group Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela

2004 Imágenes de la Resistencia, Margot Benacerraf Photography Hall, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

2002 Le Baril de Dieu, White Elephant Gallery, Paris, France

2002 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: God's Barrel, Istituto Italo Latino-americano, Roma, Italy

2002 Museo Pinacoteca Amedeo Modigliani, Folonica, Italy

2002 Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo “El Gallo”, Salamanca, Spain

2000 The Oil Well, Jacobo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela

1999 Homage to Rolando Peña. "The Oil Spill”, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo El Gallo, Salamanca, Spain

1999 The Standard Model of Matter: Tribute to the 20th Century, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela

1997 Menespace, Museo de Ciencias, Caracas, Venezuela

1997 The Oil Spill, Museum of Fine Art, Caracas, Venezuela

1996 El Mar Negro, Instituto Italo Latinoamericano, Roma, Italy

1995 Orimulsión, La Galería Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

1995 Mene Digital, Thorigny Gallery, Paris, France

1993 Mene Digital, Galería Vía, Caracas, Venezuela

1993 Mene Digital, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela

1990 El Laberinto, Exhibition hall RG, Fundación CELARG, Caracas, Venezuela

1987 Crude Oil, Galería 2817, Caracas, Venezuela

1986 I Am The Petroleum, Maison de L'Amérique Latine, Paris, France

1985 I Am The Petroleum, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

1984 The Petroleum Belongs to Me, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

1981 Oil, Cayman Gallery, New York City, USA

1979 The Seven Vanishing Points, Cayman Gallery, New York City, USA

1975 Santería, Museum of Contemporary Art Sofía Imber, Innaugural Exhibit at the Annex Gallery
Caracas, Venezuela

1975 Santería, Myth and Gold; Bogarin Workshop Gallery, New York City, USA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
Kerouac Festival 2021, 5^th New York, New York Arts Empire, New York, USA

2018
CG Art, Back to Beautiful Celebration Exhibition, O. Ascanio Gallery, Coral Gables, USA

2016 New Territories, Museo Amparo, Puebla,México

2015 POP, Odalys Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2015 The Digital Art Exhibition, Variation Paris-Media Art Fair, Paris, France

2014 New Territories, Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA

2008 Arte ? Vida: Action by Artists of the Americas, 1960 – 2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, USA

2008 Pedacito de Cielo, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2007 El Dorado del Mito a la Realidad, Goethe Institut – National Center of Photography, Caracas, Venezuela

2006 Homenaje al Cuadrado, Capuy Cultural Space, Caracas, Venezuela

2006 Minimal, La Cuadra Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela

2006 VI Salón Arte Ciencia, Simón Bolivar University, Sartenejas, Venezuela

2006 Arturo Uslar Pietri: Un Clásico Moderno, Banco Provincial Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela

2002 The Barrel of God, London Biennale 2002, Bolivar Hall, London, England

2001 Spontaneous Rupture of Symmetry: The Barrel of God, Observatori 2001, Second Festival of Artistic Research of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

2001 Museo Valenciano de la Modernidad y de Ilustración, Valencia, Spain

2000 The Standard Model of Matter. A Tribute to the 20th Century,Venezuelan Pavilion, Expo Hannover, Hannover, Germany

2000 The Oil Spill, London Biennale 2002, Bolivar Hall, London, England

2000 Homage to Rolando Peña, The International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO), Organized by the Association of Young Contemporary European Artists, Mercado de Fuencarral, Madrid, Spain

1999 Homage to Rolando Peña, Interarte '99, International Art Fair, Consorcio de Museos de la Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain

1999 I International Biennial of Art Cumaná, Museum of Contemporary Art Cumaná, Cumaná, Venezuela

1997 The Oil Spill, 47th Venice Biennial, Venezuelan Pavilion, Venice, Italy

1997 The Invention of Continuity, National Gallery of Art, Caracas, Venezuela

1995 FIA'95 International Art Fair, Caracas, Venezuela

1995 VII Francisco Narváez, Biennial of Sculpture, Margarita Island, Venezuela

1995 Heroes, Myths and Stereotypes, Gallery Union Space, Caracas, Venezuela

1995 First Fax-Art Salon, Museo de Arte Moderno, Maracay, Venezuela

1994 Escultura Pequeño Formato 94, Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1994 Del Híbrido a la Academia, Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela

1994 La Pirámide Virtual, Contrasts: Ten Contemporary Venezuelan Artists Art Museum of the Americas | Organization of American States, Washington D.C., USA

1994 II Camille Pissarro Biennial, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela

1993 La Pirámide, VI Biennial of Sculpture Francisco Narváez, Margarita Island, Venezuela

1993 This Mambo is dedicated to God, Galería Uno, Caracas, Venezuela

1993 Artistas Fundadores, Centro de Arte Lía Bermudez, Maracaibo, Venezuela

1992 Salon International de la Sculpture Contemporaine, Mayor's Office of the XII Arrondissement, Paris, France

1992 Contemporary Venezuelan Art in Paris, Galería Arver Space, Paris, Venezuela

1991 V International Art and Video Exposition, Seville, Spain

1991 Contemporary Artist of the Southern Countries, Galleria Civica, Marsala, Sicily, Italy

1991 Petroleo Suspendú Restany, Pierre Restany: Heart and Mind, Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix, France

1991 Or Noir, Le Couleurs de l'Argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France

1991 III National Art Biennial of Guayana, Jesús Soto Museum, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela

1991 New Acquisitions, Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington D.C., USA

1990 Diagonales, International Sculpture 90, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA

1990 Gran Diagonal, Sculpture Towards the 90’s, Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington D.C. USA

1989 Les Droits de Mene, Les Droits de l'Art, Chapelle de St. Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France

1988 "Tri-Totem", Olympiad of Art, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, South Korea

1987 Mene Suspendú, Ephémérité, Chapelle de St. Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France

1987 Crude Oil, Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany

1986 El Petróleo Soy Yo, The Second Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

1985 La Dorada Espiral de la Conciencia, Teatro Teresa Carreño
Sculpture 85, Fundarte, Caracas, Venezuela

1985 Lo real maravilloso No. 1, XVI International Biennial of Graphic Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1984 The Petroleum Belongs to Me, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, USA

1983 The Tower, 6ta. Bienal San Juan del Grabado, La Puntilla-Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico

1982 The Oil Tower, Beyond, Les Flocons Verts, Chamonix, France

1982 Mene Devotional Object, Sacred Artifacts, Objects of Devotion, Alternative Museum, Curators: Geno Rodriguez and Kenneth S. Friedman, New York, USA

1982 Magnetic Image, VII Annual International Audio and Video Exhibition, Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta, USA

1980 Totem, Fetishes and Devotional Objects, Alternative Museum, New York, USA

1980 Burnt Tower, XIV Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York, New York, USA

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2016 Order Andrés Bello Catholic University in its unique class, Andrés Bello Catholic University of Venezuela

2014 Special Tribute to Rolando Peña, 3rd. International Biennial of Merida in Venezuela

2014 Multimedia Art Master 2014, College of Architects of Venezuela

2012 Armando Reveron Award, Association of Artists of Venezuela (AVAP)

2010 Master of Venezuelan Art-Grant, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)

2009 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation2002 Homage, Caracas’ Major's Office in Venezuela

1999 Homage to Rolando Peña, Interarte '99 International Art Fair

1993 In Situ Sculpture, VI Francisco Narváez Sculpture Biennale

1993 Harry Liepins New Languages Award, LI Arturo Michelena Visual Arts Salon

1985 Acquisition prize, Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennale

1984 –1978 Sponsorship, National Council
          for Culture (CONAC) of Caracas

1981 Grant, National Foundation for the Arts
in Venezuela (FUNDARTE)

1981 CAPS, NYC Cultural Affair