Caio Fonseca

(American, born 1959)

cuedra de pietrasanta by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

cuedra de pietrasanta, 2002

50,000 USD

fifth street painting by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Fifth Street Painting, 2002

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extempera iii by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Extempera III, 2009

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extempera ii by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Extempera II, 2009

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pietrasanta by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Pietrasanta, 2002

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fifth street #54 by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Fifth Street #54, 1994

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doublet ii by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Doublet II, 2009

2,000 USD

doublet i by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Doublet I, 2009

2,000 USD

extempera i by caio fonseca

Caio Fonseca

Extempera I, 2009

3,500 USD

Biography

Timeline

1959
Born in New York, NY
1978 - 1983
Attended school in Barcelona, Spain
1983 - 1985
Worked in Montevideo, Uruguay
1985 - 1989
Attended school in Tuscany, Italy before returning to New York, NY
1990 - 1991
Lived and worked in Paris, France
Now divides his time between Pietrasanta, Italy, and New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Selected Paintings, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, USA
2011
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, USA (solo)
Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA (solo)
2010
Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
Victoria Munroe Fine Arts, Boston, USA (solo)
Private Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2009
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England (solo)
Universal Limited Art Editions Then and Now, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, USA
2008
Caio Fonseca Paintings on Canvas and Paper, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, USA (solo)
Contemporary Watercolors, The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, USA
Group Dialogue, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
2007
Caio Fonseca: New Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Solstice, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, USA
2006
Sliding Scales, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, USA
Black + White, Nathan A. Bernstein & Co., Ltd., New York, USA
2005
Caio Fonseca: New Paintings, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
Cross Section, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Fuori Tema/Italian Feeling, XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2004
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, USA
Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, USA
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Caio Fonseca: Prints and Works on Paper, The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C.
Caio Fonseca: Prints, Eckenroth Gallery, Vail, USA

Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT, USA
Dayton Institute of Art, Dayton, OH, USA
Coca-Cola U.S.A., Plano, TX, USA
Citibank, N.A., New York, NY, USA
Bovis Lend Lease, Aurora Place, Sydney, AU
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA, USA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY, USA

Literature

2005
Caio Fonseca, New Paintings (hardbound, 71 page exhibition catalogue). London: Ben Brown Fine Arts
Inventions: Recent Paintings by Caio Fonseca (hardbound, 88 page book accompanying museum exhibition). Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art.
2003
Kunitz, Daniel. Caio Fonseca: Paintings, (hardbound, 201 page book accompanying museum exhibition). Valencia, Spain: IVAM
2002
New York Renaissance: Highlights from the Whitney Museum of American Art (exhibition catalogue). Milan, Italy: Palazzo Reale
Caio Fonseca (exhibition catalogue). New York, NY: Paul Kasmin Gallery
Caio Fonseca (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco, CA: John Berggruen Gallery