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Selected Group Exhibitions

1948

Exposición de pintores antioqueños, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Medellín, Colombia

1949

Salón de artistas Antioqueños, Galerías de Arte, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Extensión Cultural, Bogota

1952

Ix Salón Anual De Artistas Colombianos, Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota

1955

Iii Bienal Hispanoaméricana de Arte, Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Barcelona, Spain

 

Concurso de pintura de la Asociación de Escritores y Artistas de Colombia, Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota

1956

Exposición inaugural, Galería El Caballito, Bogota

 

Gulf-Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and tour

1957

X Salón Anual De Artistas Colombianos, Museo Nacional, Bogota, also included in 1958 and 1959

 

Salón De Arte Moderno, Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Banco de la República, Bogota

1958

XXIX Biennale, Venice, Italy

 

Guggenheim International Award 1958, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, also included in 1960

1959

Paintings from the Gres Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

 

International Group Show, Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.

 

Botero, Grau, Obregón, Ramírez, Villegas, Wiedemann, Galería de Arte El Callejón, Bogota

 

V Bienal, Museum de arte Moderna de São Paulo

 

South American Art Today, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, and American Federation of Arts tour

1960

3500 Years of Colombian Art, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, and tour

 

Salón Nacional de Pintura de Cucuta, Colombia

 

25 Pinturas y relieves (Los Pintores auto-excluidos de la II Bienal de México), Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Banco de la República, Bogota

 

8 Artistas modernos, Galería de Arte El Callejón, Bogota

1961

The Architect Selects, Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.

 

International Selection 1961, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

 

Recent Acquisitions: Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1962

Arte de Colombia, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, and tour

 

7 Pintores contemporaneos, Galería Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia

 

Neo-Figurative Painting in Latin America, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.

 

Pintores Colombianos: 2nd Festival Nacional de Arte Cali, La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

1963

23 Pinturas Colombianas: Colección de la Biblioteca Luis-Angel, Arango del Banco de la República, Sala de Exposiciones, Banco de la República, Cúcuta, Colombia, and tour

 

Arte de América y España, Palacios de Velazquez y Crystal del Retrio, Madrid, May—June, and tour, organized by the Instituto de Cultura Hispanica de Madrid

 

3er Festival nacional de arte-1963, exposiciónes: Primer Salón gran Colombiano de pintura, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Cali, Colombia, also included in 1964

 

Südamerikanische Malerei der Gegenwart, Haus der Städtischen Kunstammlungen, Bonn, Germany, and tour

1964

Primer Salón Intercol de artistas jóvenes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia

 

The Dark Mirror, State University of New York at Fredonia, New York, and American Federation Tour

1964

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also included in 1967

1965

Esso Salon of Young Artists, Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.

 

The Emergent Decade: Latin American Painting, New York, and tour

1966

Art of Latin America Since Independence, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, and tour

 

Pintura Colombiana de ayer y de hoy, Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Banco de la República, Bogota

1967

Cinquième Biennale de Paris: Manifestation biennale et internationale des jeunes artistes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

 

A Salute to Latin American Art, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1968

4 Latin American Painters, Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York

 

Paintings by Fernando Botero and Leopold Richer, Walter Engel Gallery, Toronto, Canada

 

Menschenbilder, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany

1969

Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibition, Mercer University, Mercer, Georgia, and tour

 

Contemporary Portraits, Museum of Modern Art Circulating Exhibition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, and tour

 

Nueve obras de la pintura contemporanea Colombiana, Galería Buchholz, Bogota

 

Latin American Paintings from the Collection of the Solomon R.

 

Guggenheim Museum, Art Gallery, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York

1970

Botero, Cuevas: Paintings, Drawings from the Collection of John and Barbara Duncan, Art Gallery, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, and tour, organized by the International Exhibitions Foundation

 

Botero, Coronel, Rodòn, Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras, Puerto Rico

 

Esso Salon of Contemporary Latin American Artists: A New Permanent Collection, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

 

Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

 

Third Internationale der Zeichnung, Stadt Darmstadt, Germany

 

American Drawings of the Sixties: A Selection, New School Art Center, New York

 

Accrochage 1, Gallery 21, Zürich

 

Humor, Satire and Irony, New School Art Center, New York

1971

Botero, Lindner, Wesselmann: Aus gewählte Bilder, Zeichnungen und Grafik, Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany

 

117 Dessins et gravures de peintres d’Amérique Latine, Le Centre de Recherches Latino Américanes, Université de Poitiers, France

1972

A Selection of European and American Watercolors and Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, and tour

1973

32 Artistas Colombianos de hoy, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia

 

Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn: Contemporary Latin American Art, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston

 

An Invitation to See: 125 Paintings from Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Realisti Imperrealisti, Galleria La Medusa

1974

Arte Colombiano de hoy, Sala de Exposiciones, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela

 

Inaugural Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Arte y politica, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota

 

Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

 

Colección, Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela

 

Art of the Americas in Washington Private Collections, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

 

Brusberg Berichte 18, Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany

 

Selection 3: Spring/Summer, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York

 

Selected Paintings, Drawings and Graphics of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York

 

Marlborough en Caracas, Arte/Contacto Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

 

Group Exhibition: Fall 1974, James Goodman Gallery, New York

1975

Paisaje 1900-1975, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia, July

 

L’Art colombien à travers les siècles, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, and tour, organized by the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura

 

Fondation Veranneman, Fondation Veranneman, Belgium

1976

First International Exhibition of Plastic Arts, Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Lanzarote, Canary Islands

 

Inaugural Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York

 

Recent Work: Arikha, Auerbach, Bacon, Botero, Genovés, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj, López García, Rivers, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

Gran Formato, Galería Theo, Madrid, Spain

 

Creadores Latinoaméricanos Contemporaneos: 1950—1976, Museo de Arte Moderno Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico

 

Fiac ’76, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris

1977

Recent Latin American Drawings (1969—1976): Lines of Vision, Art Gallery, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, and tour, organized by the International Exhibition Foundation

 

The Dada and Surrealist Heritage, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

 

Homenaje a La Pintura Latinoamericana, Patronato Pro-Cultura de El Salvador

 

Subasta, Arte Contacto

 

Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1978

Masters of Modern Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

The Colombian Exposition, De Armas Gallery, Virginia Gardens, Florida

 

Tenth Anniversary Show, Walter Engel Gallery, Toronto

 

Mona Lisa im 20. Jahrhundert, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum der Stadt Duisburg, and tour

 

Brusberg Berichte, Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany

1979

Kunst der letzten 30 Jahre, Museum des 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna

 

Summer Loan Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Myth and Reality: The Art of Modern Latin America, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

 

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

 

Nachbilder, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

1980

Brusberg Berichte 25, Gallery Brusberg, Hannover, Germany

1981

Brusberg Berichte 26, Gallery Brusberg, Hannover, Germany

 

International Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Sara Milden Art Museum

1982

Kunstler aus Latinamerika, Berlin Kunstlerprogram, Germany

 

Homo Sapiens, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

 

Drawing, Art Gallery, Center For Inter-American Relations, New York

 

Obras de la colección, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela

 

Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

The Human Figure, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

1983

Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago

 

Brusberg Berichte 27, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Germany

 

Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

 

Nummer 6. Herbst ’83, Levy Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1984

Botero/Ferber, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

 

The Best from Colombia, Amazoni, Trump Tower, New York, May

 

...And the Livin’ is easy..., Visual Arts Museum, New York

 

Works in Bronze, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California

 

New Narrative Painting: Selected from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 

Masters of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

International Masters of Contemporary Figuration, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Tokyo

 

One Hundred Works from Its Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela

 

Selection One: Tableaux Modernes, Fabien Boulakia

 

Works in Bronze: A Modern Survey, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California

1985

Five Colombian Masters, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C.

 

The Classic Tradition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

 

Nummer 8. Herbst ’85, Levy Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

 

A Selection of 20th Century 3-D Portraits, Cleveland Art Center, Ohio

1986

Drawings by Sculptors, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

 

Works in Bronze: A Modern Survey, Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington

 

Universal Images: People and Nature in Sculpture, The Mendek Company

 

Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago

 

El Desnudo, Galería Alfred Wild, Bogota, Colombia

 

The Foundation Veranneman invites Marlborough, Fondation Veranneman, Belgium

1987

Recent Development in Latin American Drawing, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

 

Monumenta, 19th Biennalle Openlucht Museum - Middleheim, Belgium

 

Monte Carlo: Sculpture ’87, Marisa del Re Gallery,

 

New York

 

Abstraction, Non-Objectivity, Realism: 20th Century Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

 

The First America: Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Rhode Island

 

Group Show (Colombian artists), Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogota, Colombia

 

20th Century Masters, Lafayette Parke Gallery, New York

 

Master Sculptors of the XX Century, Weintraub Gallery, New York

 

Escultura, Galería Alfred Wild, Bogota

1987-88

The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; tour: Sonja Henie-Neils Onstad Foundations, Hovikodden, Norway; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Paris; Barbican Art Gallery, London

 

Recent Works: Arikha, Auerbach, Bacon, Botero, Bravo, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj, López-García, Mason, Rivers, Welliver, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

Art of the Fantastic Latin America, 1920-1987, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, text by Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, tour: The Queens Museum, New York; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo

1988

Visions/Revisions: Contemporary Representation, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

A Selection of Important Sculpture, Marlborough Fine Art, London

 

The Latin American Spirit: Art & Artist in the United States, 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

 

The Ellen and Jerome Westeimer Collection, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

The Face, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Exhibition of Masterpieces, Aberbach Fine Arts, New York

 

Seis Maestros Colombianos, Galería Alfred Wild, Bogota

 

No. 9 - Autumn, Levy Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1989

Important 20th Century Sculpture, Weintraub Gallery, New York

 

Art in Bloom: The Flower as Subject, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida

 

11th Biennale de Sculpture: Monte Carlo, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, in Monte Carlo

 

Sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Fernando Botero, Grisha Bruskin, John Davies, Red Grooms, Raymond Mason, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, The Hayward Gallery, London

 

Masterpieces of Latin American Art, CDS Gallery, New York

 

The Figure, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Masters of Latin America and the Caribbean in Washington Metropolitan Area Private Collections, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, D.C.

1990

Abstraction - Figuración, Figurative - Abstract, Selections from the Latin American Collection, Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

 

Ocho Artistas Latinoaméricanos, Galería Fernando Quintana, Colombia at ARCO ‘90

 

Latinoamérica España, Quintana Fine Art, New York at Salon de Mars, Paris

 

Dibujos, Galería Alfred Wild, Bogota

 

Marlborough en Pelaires, Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

 

Long Island Collects: The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s - 1980’s, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York

1991

Maestros Colombianos, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations, Colombian Center, New York

 

The Awakening, The Discovery Museum, Connecticut

1992

Venice Biennale, Venice

 

On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970—1990): Images of Man, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

1992-93

Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Estación Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain. Traveled to Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and Hôtel des Artes, Fondation Nationale des Artes, Paris; Museum Ludwig at Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

Lateinamerikanische Kunst Im 20 Jahrhundert, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

 

IVème Biennale de Sculpture Monte Carlo 1993, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, in Monte Carlo

1994

The Body Human, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

 

Novices Collect, The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

 

Debut: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Kansas City Art Institute, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design of Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City

1995

Biennale de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, in Monaco

1996

Modern and Contemporary Masters, Freites-Revilla Gallery of Coral Gables, Coral Gables, Florida

 

A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William Koch, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

 

Latin Viewpoints, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York

 

On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York 14 February — 9 March, Marlborough Madrid, 27 March — 4 May 1996

1997

CityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York

 

ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo of International Galleries Featuring

 

Modern and Contemporary Art, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

 

VI éme Biennale de Sculpture Monte Carlo, Marisa Del Re Gallery, Monaco

 

Forma eta Figurazioa: Blake-Purnell Bildumako Maisu-Lanak, May 8 — June 24, 1998, Gughenheim Bilbao Musuem

 

Artists from Latin America, CDS Gallery, New York, NY

 

Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, Katonah Museum of Art, October — January 2.

 

Important Sculptors of the Late Twentieth Century, Stamford Sculpture Walk, June 1 0 August 31.

 

On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, 18 January — 19 Februar2000

 

Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, 26 April — 20 May, Marlborough Monte Carlo, 28 June — 30 September 2000

 

Elogio de lo Visible, 27 artistas en torno a la figuracion, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, 7 February — 18 March, Caja de Ahorros de Murcia, Centro Cultura "Las Claras", Murcia, 24 March — 27 April, Cultureal Rioja, Logrono, 22 June — 31 July 2000

 

Les Artistes du Port, Marlborough Monaco, 19 October 2000 — 13 January 2001

2002

La Parade des Animaux, Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, June 26 — October 31