Carlos Cruz-Diez

(Venezuelan, 1923–2019)

physichromie 563 by carlos cruz-diez

Carlos Cruz-Diez

Physichromie 563, 1971

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Biography

Timeline

1923
Born: Caracas, Venezuela
1973 - 1980
Member, jury for diplome of École Superieure des Beaux Arts Paris, France
1986 - 1993
Titular Professor and Director,Art Unit of Institute of Advanced Studies, IDEA, Caracas, Venezuela

Exhibitions

2013
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions 2013:
Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions 2012:
Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX (solo exhibition)
Cruz-Diez: A cor no espaco e no tempo, Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo (solo exhibition)
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China (solo exhibition)
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Circumstance and Ambiguity of Color, Henan Art Museum, Zhengzhou, China
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Jeonbuk, South Korea
2011
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions 2011:
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Cruz-Diez: Color in Space, Dream Forest Arts Center, Sang Sang Tok Tok Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El color en el espacio y en el tiempo, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (MALBA – Fundacion Constantini), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Color on Color, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, Texas
Cruz-Diez: Circunstancia y Ambigüedad del Color, Galería La Cometa, Bogotá, Colombia
Cruz-Diez: Cuestionamiento a lo Bidimensional, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
2010
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions 2010:
Environment Chromatic-Interferences: Interactive Space by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Guangdong, China
Cruz-Diez: O Instável de Cor, Galerie de Arte Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carlos Cruz-Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color, Miami Art Museum, Miami, United States
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El Color. Una Circunstancia Especial y Temporal, Marióon Gallery, Panama, Republic of Panama
Circonstance et Ambiguïté de la Couleur, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Geometrie hors Limites: Art Contemporain Latino-Américain, Jean et Colette Cherqui Collection, Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, France
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, United States
Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction, The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States
Couleur et Géométrie, Actualité de l’Art Construit Européen, Orangerie des Musées and Municipal Library, Sens, France
Vibración: Modern Art from Latin America, The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Kunst and Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschlan, Bonn, Germany
Lumière et Mouvement/Luce e Movimento, Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Venice, Italy
Los Sitios de la Abstracción Latinoamericana, Colección Ella Fontanals-Ciseneros, EsBaluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemprani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Desenhar no Espaço: Artistas Abstratos do Brasil e da Venezuela na Coleção, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
América Fría: La Abstracción Geométrica Latinoamericana (1934-1973), Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Sculpere-Esculpir: Forma, Volumen y Espacio, Poéticas de la Materialidad, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Carlos Cruz-Diez: The Embodied Experience of Color, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo exhibition)
2009
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El Color Sucede, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma, Spain. Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Cuenca, Spain
North Looks South: Building the Latinamerican Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Explorando el Sur: El Universalismo Constructivo y otras Tendencias en América Latina, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Caroline Wiess Law Building, Houston, United States
Abstrakcja I Kinetyka: Abstracts and Kinetics, Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El Color Sucede, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El Color Sucede, Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Spain
Carlos Cruz-Diez: 50 Ans de Recherche, Galerie Lavignes Bastille, Paris, Frnace
Carlos Cruz-Diez: El Color Sucede, Museu d’Arte Espanyol Contemporani, Palma, Spain
Cruz-Diez: Colour in the Making, The Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Carlos Cruz-Diez: La Experiencia Sensorial del Color, Periférico Caracas/Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela
2008
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Cruz-Diez: A Cor no Espaço, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Cruz-Diez: La Couleur Dans l’Espace, Centre d’Art Contemporain Frank Popper, Marcigny, France
Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)Formed by Color, Americas Society’s Art Gallery, New York, United States
Cruz-Diez, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Farbe im Wandel, Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
Das Kleine Format – Petit Format – Small Format, Kunsthaus Rehau, Institut für Konstruktive Kunst und Konkrete Poesie, Rehau, Germany
Facets, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., United States
Color into Light, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, United States
Face to Face: Part 2, The Daros Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Revolução Cinética, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporanea, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Experiment Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Performing the City, Kunst Aktionismus in Stadt Raum 60er und 70er, Jahre, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York State Museum, Albany, United States
Explorando el Sur: El Universalismo Constructivo y otras Tendencias en América Latina, Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid Spain
(In)Formed by Color: Carlos Cruz-Diez, Americas Society, New York (solo exhibition)
2007
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions in 2007
After Image: Op Art of the 1960’s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, New York
An Architect Collects, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arco 07, Stand Galeria Dan, Madrid, Spain
Artistes Estrangers à Paris 1900-2005, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Dialogue Cinetique, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Leopold-Hoesch, Hoeschplatz, Duezn, Germany
L’Abstraction Géometrique, Chateau de Tours, France
La Utopia Cinetica, Salas Caja, San Francisco, California
Los Cineticos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Optic Nerve: Perpetual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Paris du Monde Entier: Artistes Étrangers à Paris 1900-2005, The National Art Center,Tokyo, Japan
After Image: Op Art of the 1960s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, United States
Nyehaus becomes Indica, Nyehaus Gallery, New York, United States
La Utopía Cinética: 1955-1975, Salas Caja San Fernando, Seville, Spain
La Presencia: The Presence of Latin American Art in California Collections, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, United States
Constructing a Poetic Universe, The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, United States
Construyendo el Vacío: Arte Moderno de la Colección del Museum of Fine Arts de Houston, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, United States
O(s) Cinético(s), Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, United States
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, United States
Estéticas, Sonhos e Utopias dos Artistas do Mundo pela Liberdade: Tributo a Mário Pedrosa, Museu da Solidarieda de Salvador Allende, São Paulo, Brazil
An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Paviion, College of Fine and Applied Arts at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Champaign, United States
Movement in a Square: The Square in Painting, Kinetic Art and Animation, Museum Ritter, Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
Die Neuen Tendenzen: Eine europäische Künstlerbewegung 1961-1973, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Lo[s] Cinético[s], Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Carte Blanche à Cruz-Diez, Galerie Denise René, Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Carte Blanche à Cruz-Diez, Galerie Denise René, Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Cruz-Diez: A Cor no Espaço, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil
Cruz-Diez. A Cor no Espaço, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil (solo exhibition)
2006
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Cruz-Diez: La couleur dans l'espace, Denise René Gallery Paris, France
Die farbe im raum, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Konkret Martin Worn Gallery, Sulzburg, Germany
Volume Reel, couleur virtuelle, Maison des Arts, Chitillon, France
Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Vancouver, Canada
Une Historie de Cinetisme, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, France
Fla.g. Ships, Schwimmende Visionen, Museum de Sant Ratingen, Germany
Horizontales Verticales Sueles, Art Concret, Musee de Pontoise, Pontoise, France
La Utopia Cinetica 1955-1975, Centro Cultural Sa Nostra, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Les Artistes s’Affranchissent, Parc Floral de Vincens, Salon de Timbre, France
Op Art, Joyce Palais Royal, Paris, France
Quadrature de Cercle, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France
Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK
Stetes Konkret, Galerie Lelau Sberg, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Sites of Latin American Abstraction, CIFO, Miami, Florida
Une Conquete de l’Art d’Amerique Latine, Oeuvres de la Fundacion Daniela Chapard
Cruz-Diez, Gego, Maggi, Soto & Tomasello, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
Certain Encounters: Daros-Latin America Collection, Vancouver, Canada
60 Realites Nouvelles, Parc Floral de Paris, France
Art Basel, Stand Denise Rene, CH
Arte Cinetica, Spazio Boccioni, Milan, Italy
Chromatiques, Galerie Konkret, Sulzburg, Germany
Cruce de Miradas Coleccion Cisneros, Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Die Neuen Tendenzen, Museum Fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Diversas Constancias, Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paolo, Brazil
European Neo-Constructivism of 1930-2000, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2005
Carlos Cruz-Diez Selected Exhibitions in 2005:
22 of the future for the future of Vukovar, Muzeum Sztukiw Lodzi, Vukovar, Poland (solo exhibition)
Universe Sprit du Geometrie, MADI Museum & Gallery, Dallas, Texas (solo exhibition)
Brought to Light : Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Works from the 1950's -1970's, Sicardi Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Universe Sprit du Geometrie, MADI Museum and Gallery, Dallas, TX
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Interactive Random Chromatic Experience, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Cruz-Diez. Arte en Guri, Museo de la Estampa y del Diseno Carlos Cruz-Diez, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)

Public Collections

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Quadrat Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogota, Colombia
Sonja Henie-Musee d’Art Moderne, Hovikodden, Oslo, Norway
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery University of Texas, Austin, Texas