Selected Works
Eugenio Espinoza, Black and Green, 1977, Paint on canvas, 118 x 115 cm
Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled, 1972 Acrylic on unprimed canvas, rock, rope 164 x 85 in
Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled, NY, 1977, Acrylic on canvas and string, 106.7 x 94 cm
Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled, 1972 Acrylic on unprimed canvas, wood (3 separate panels) 59 x 36 x 58 in
Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled (Unique, reconstruction), 1972, Acrylic on canvas, 121 x 121 cm
Eugenio Espinoza, Good Blue Day (installation view), 2019
Eugenio Espinoza, Facetious, 2015, Oil base enamel on aluminum, wire, metal bracket
Eugenio Espinoza, Untitled, 1979, 113 x 110 cm
Eugenio Espinoza
Born 1950, Venezuela
Eugenio Espinoza was born in 1950, in San Juan de los Morros, in central Venezuela. From 1966 to 1974, he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Cristobal Rojas and the Instituto de Diseno Newmann-Ince in Caracas. From 1977 to 1981, he lived in New York where he studied at Pratt Institute, New York University, and the School of Visual Arts.
In 1972, Eugenio Espinoza exhibited cut and folded canvases at the Museo de Bellas Artes and his Impenetrable at Ateneo de Caracas. His later conceptual works includes found objects and photography. In 1985, he represented Venezuela at the Bienal de Sao Paulo.
His work is in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, London, U.K.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Fine Arts Museum of Houston, Texas; the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas; the Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; the Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida; Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; and Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderna, in Rio de Janeiro; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota; Fundacion Gego, Caracas; The Cisneros Collection, New York; the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL; Tanya Capariles De Brillembourg collection, and several other prestigious private and corporate collections.
In 2017 Eugenio Espinoza won the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts for the United States and Canada.
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Good Blue Day, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA
2017
Unlocking Something, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy
2016
Retro/Retrospectiva, 2016-1972, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain
2015
Diorama, Blackston, New York, NY, USA
Unruly Supports: (1970 to 1980), March - August, 2015, Perez Art Museum Miami, USA
Solo exhibition at Galleria Eduardo Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
Out of Focus, Alambrico at Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
Going Blind Faith, Blackston, New York, NY, USA
Museum Collections
Tate Modern, London, U.K.
MOMA, New York, NY, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, USA
Fine Arts Museum of Houston, Texas, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
The Harn, Gainesville, FL, USA
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, USA
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Past Exhibition
Eugenio Espinoza: Good Blue Day
December 1st - February 1st, 2021
Good Blue Day includes never-before-seen works by Eugenio Espinoza, alongside a selection from his extensive oeuvre spanning 50 years.
Curated by Claire Breukel