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Gego Biographie
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1912 |
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BORN: Hamburg, Germany
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1938 |
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Studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule, Stuttgart
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1952 |
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Received Venezuelan Citizenship
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1958 |
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Taught: School of Place
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1962 |
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Created design for the headquarters of the Banco Industrial de Venezuela in Caracas
Won the First Prize in Drawing, Fourth National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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1968 |
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Won the National Prize in Drawing, 19th Annual Official Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
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1976 |
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Won the Acquisition Prize, Salón la artes Plásticas en Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
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1979 |
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Won the National Visual Arts Prize, Venezuela
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1980 |
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Awarded Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Venezuela
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2010
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Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Geometric Illusion, Frederico Seve Gallery, Latincollector, New York, NY
Liquid Lines: Exploring the Language of Contemporary Metal, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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2009
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North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Sites of Latin American Abstraction, Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Chiharu Shiota/GEGO, Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY
1969, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Ruth Asawa and Artes Latinos, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Line is a Sign, Frederico Seve Gallery - Latincollector, New York, NY
Tiempo como materia, Collección MACBA, Nuevas incorporaciones, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Explorando el sur – El universalismo constructivo y otras tendencias en América Latina, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain
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2008
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Peripheral vision and collective body, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
El círculo, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
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2007
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Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible, The Drawing Center, New York, April 21-July 21 (solo)
Description and image - Tamaño Real, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 - 2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
La Presencia - The Presence of Latin American Art in California Collections, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
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2006
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Estrecho Dudoso, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San Jose, CA
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Bienal del Aire, Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Marked Pages - Exhibition of Drawings, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Feeling the Line, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Webs, Loops and Skeins in Modern Contemporary Art, The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Cruz-Diez, Gego, Maggi, Soto & Tomasello; Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
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2005
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Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 26-September 25 (solo)
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
A contra corriente - Mira Schendel, Gego y Lygia Pape, Fundación ARS TEOR/éTica, San Jose, CA
Brought to Light: Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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2004
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Parallel Stories: Venezuelan & Brazilian Abstract Constructive Art, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s-70s; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Arte y utopía - La acción restringida, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
MoMA at El Museo. Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Museo, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
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2002 - 2003
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Questioning the Line: Gego, a Selection, 1955-1990, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (solo)
Ruth Vollmer and Gego: Thinking the Line, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Geo-metrías - Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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2000 - 2001
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Gego: 1955-1990, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas October-March (solo)
Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art in the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Fogg Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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2000
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Force Field: Phases of the Kinetic, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Versiones del Sur, Heterotropías: Medio siglo sin lugar, 1916 - 1968, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Raumkörper - Netze und andere Gebilde, Art Basel, Switzerland
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1999
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Del Siglo que se Va, Doce Artistas del S.XX, Espacios Unión, Caracas, Venezuela
Masterworks of Twentieth-Century Latin American Art, Biarritz, France
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Trajectory, 1899 - 1999, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
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1998
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Black and White, Gego and Leufert, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
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1997
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The Invention of Continuity, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Re-Readymade, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawings; The Neighborhood Museum, New York, NY
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
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1996
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Gego: Drawings, Engravings, Weavings, Centro Cultural Consolidado, CaracasWhite-Chapel, London, UK
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, September-November (solo)
XXIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Sala Especiales, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lime, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Inside the visible, An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art (In, Of, and From the Feminine), The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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1995
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Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Milwaukee Museum of Art, WI
The Prodigious Decade, Venezuelan Art during the Sixties, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Iron Women in Homage to Gego, Sala Cultural Corpoven, Caracas, Venezuela
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1994
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Gego: A Look at Her Work, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, November (solo)
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1992
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Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain
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1990
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Weavings, Galería Sotavento, Caracas, Venezuela
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1989
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Art for a Fiftieth Anniversary, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Art from Bolivarian Regions in Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
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1988
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Gego: Recent Works, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas, March (solo)
Art of America, Selected Pieces of the Collection, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Interaction on Another Scale, Galería Sotavento, Caracas, Venezuela
The Imagination of Transparency, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
The Latin Spirit: Art and Artists in United States, 1920 - 1970, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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1986
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Integration, the Space, the Plane, Galería Los Espacios Cálidos, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Urban Caracas, Museo de Artes La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela
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1985
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Art in Metal, Galería Miguel & Fuenmayor, Caracas, Venezuela
Escultura 85 - Encuentro Nacional de Escultores, Fundarte, Consejo Municipal y Gobernación de Distrito Federal, Caracas, Venezuela
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1984
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Gego: Drawings without Paper, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, June-August (solo)
Second Sculpture Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narvaez, Porlamar, Venezuela
Venezuelan Sculptors Honor Rómulo Gallegos, Consejo Municipal del Distrito Federal, Caracas, Venezuela
Acquisitions and Donations, 1982 - 1983, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
16 from A to Z, Galería Miguel & Fuenmayor, Caracas, Venezuela
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1983
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Four Decades of American Painting and Sculpture in Venezuelan Collections: 1940 - 1980, Museo de Arte La Rinconada, Caracas, Venezuela
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1982
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Watercolors by Gego, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Jul 4-Aug 8 (solo)
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1981
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Reticulárea, Permanent Installation, Sala Gego, Galeria 1de Arte Nacional, Caracas (solo)
New Draftsmen-Women in Venezuela, CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela. Spielraum-Raumspiele, Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Taller de Artistas Gráficos Asociados (TAGA), Venezuelan Embassy, Paris, France
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1980
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Variations on Reticuláreas, Sala Cadafe, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, May (solo)
Matter and Form, Comandancia General de las FFAA, Caracas, Venezuela
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1979
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Venezuelan Graphics, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan Constructive Art 1945-1965. Genesis and Development, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
VIP Rooms, Aeropuerto Internacional Simón Bolivar, Maiqueta, Venezuela
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1978
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A Short History of Drawing in Venezuela, Estrudio Actual, Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan Symposium in Paris, UNESCO, Paris, France
12 Venezuelan Artists in the Collection, Dacafe Room, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Contemporary Sculpture in Venezuela, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
The Hand, The Silk, The Color - The Cobalto Workshop, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
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1977
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Gego, Museo de Artes Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, September (solo)
New Propositions, Casa de Bello, Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Expo-Grafica Venezolana, Galleria Maarconi, Rome, Italy
Current Art of Latin America, Centro Cultural de la villa de Madrid, Spain
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1976
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A Tribute to Pablo Neruda, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
75 Artists - The Estuardo Maldonado Collection, Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Inauguration of the New Wing of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
A Brief History of Engraving on Metal, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Plastic Arts in Venezuela, 1976 Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
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1975
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Gego: Drawings for Projects, Instituto de Diseno, Fundacion Neumann, Caracas, May 6-20 (solo)
Propositions for Architecture - An Encounter Between Plastic Artists and Architects, Living Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
A Brief History of Engraving on Metal, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Connections and Contrasts in Venezuelan Painting, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Art ’75, Galería Adler Castillo, Caracas, Venezuela
7th Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, SwitzerlandGego, Otero y Negret, Galería Adler Castillo, Caracas, Venezuela
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1973
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Recent Drawings, Galeria Conkright, Caracas (solo)
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1972
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Structures Double Curves, Galeria Conkright, Caracas (solo)
Plastic Arts in Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Group Exhibition, Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela
Drawing, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
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1971
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Gego: Sculpture and Drawing, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, April 13-May 1 (solo)
Tamarind: A Renaissance of Lithography, Exhibition from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
Second Annual Shasta College Invitational, Shasta College Art Department, Reading, CA
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1970
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Gego Drawings, The Graphic Gallery, San Francisco, May 1-17 (solo)
First Latin American Engraving Biennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico
41st International Exhibition, Northwest Printmakers, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, WA
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1969
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Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, June-July (solo)
Drawings, Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela
Kinetic Art and Its Origins, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
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1968
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On Paper: Lithographs by Gego, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, November (solo)
Three Engravers; Gego, Chacon, Guevara, Galería XX2, Caracas, Venezuela
Sculpture, Mural and Fountains at Hemis Fair ’68, San Antonio Fair Inc., San Antonio, TX
XXIX Salón Oficial Anal de Arte Venezolano,Dibujo Grabado, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Sculpture and its Possibilities, 1968, Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas, Venezuela
Painting and Engraving in Venezuela Today, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
Color and Movement, Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela
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1967
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Gego: Sculptures. 1957-1967, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, June 8-30 (solo)
XXVII Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
17 Venezuelan Artists, Galería de Arte de la Universidad, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Recent Latin American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Dutch Festival, Madurodam, The Hague, The Netherlands
XII Salón D’Empaire de Pintura y Escultura, Consejo Municipal de Maracaibo, Venezuela
Grabados 1967, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza Exhibition Hall, Caracas, Venezuela
Confrontation 67, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Tapestries from the Fundación Neumann Workshop, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
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1966
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The Persistence of Images 1945 - 1955, Galería XX2, Caracas, Venezuela
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1964
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White on White, The Contemporaries, New York, NY
Print: The Image and the Means. Grunwald Graphic Art Foundation, UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works Awarded Prizes at the National Drawing and Engraving Exhibitions, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
One Hundred Contemporary Prints, Pratt Graphic Art Center, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Third Exhibition Hall of Young Sculptors, Nach Schwäbischem Rezept am Broadway Litographiert, Amerika Haus Stuttgart, Germany
Venezuelan, Glass Gallery, New York, NY
Venezuelan Engravers, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Exhibition Hall, Caracas, Venezuela
The Braniff International Airways Collection, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Seventh National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas Sculpture Exhibition Hall, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela
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1963
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2nd Exhibition Hall of Young Sculptors, Galería G, Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuelan Geometric Sculpture 1950 - 1960, Galería de Arte del INCIBA, Caracas, Venezuela
Art Annual, Geigy Chemical Gallery, New York, NY
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1962
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V National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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1961
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raphic1, Graphic and Advertising Art, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas
XII Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
From Rodin to Our Times, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela Permanent Exhibition, Galería G, Caracas, Venezuela
Untitled, Galería El Muro, Caracas, Venezuela
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1960
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Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1959, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Recent Sculpture, David Herbert Gallery, New York, NY
New Names, Betty Parson’s Gallery, New York, NY
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1959
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XX Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Painting and Sculpture by Professors at the School of Architecture, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
1st National Drawing and Engraving Exhibition, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
Exhibition-Auction, Concert Hall, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
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1958
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Gego: Sculptures and Gouaches, Liberia Cruz del Sur, Caracas, May 9-24 (solo)
Exhibition-Auction in Honor of the School Founders of 1936, Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas Cristóbal Rojas, Caracas, Venezuela
XIX Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
Drawings, Sculptures, Pottery of Venezuela, Venezuelan Pavilion at the Brussels International Fair, Brussels, Belgium
Fundación Cristóbal Rojas, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
First Christmas Fair, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, organized by the Museo de Bellas Artes Friends Society, Caracas, Venezuela
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1955
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XVI Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Collages and Poems, Galería Grupo Sardio, Caracas, Venezuela
A Tribute to Soto, Centro Progesional del Este, Caracas, Venezuela
Abstract Art in Venezuela, Galería Don Hatch, Caracas, Venezuela
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1954
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XV Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
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Select Public Collections:
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narváez, Porlamar
Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolivar
Museo de Barquisimeto, Barquisimeto, Venezuela
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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