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Caio Fonseca    (American, 1959)

 Caio Fonseca - Intermezzo (Prints) h: 34 x w: 40.2 in / h: 86.4 x w: 102.1 cm
Caio Fonseca
Intermezzo 2004
 
 Caio Fonseca - Pavana Lacrymae (Prints) h: 31.5 x w: 37.2 in / h: 80 x w: 94.5 cm
Caio Fonseca
Pavana Lacrymae 2004
 
 Caio Fonseca - Sarabande (Prints) h: 20.8 x w: 27 in / h: 52.8 x w: 68.6 cm
Caio Fonseca
Sarabande 2004
 
 Caio Fonseca - Seven String Etching Obliques (Prints) h: 38 x w: 49 in / h: 96.5 x w: 124.5 cm
Caio Fonseca
Seven String Etching Obliques 2001
 
  

Biography
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
Now divides his time between Pietrasanta and his studio in Manhattan on East Fifth Street

Exhibitions
2007 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
“Cross Section,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
“Fuori Tema/Italian Feeling,” XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2004 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain (Traveling Retrospective exhibition)
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
“Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
“Caio Fonseca: Prints and Works on Paper,” The Ralls Collection, Washington, DC
“Caio Fonseca: Prints,” Eckenroth Gallery, Vail, Colorado
2002 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
“New York Renaissance: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
“Abstraction,” Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Doug Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada (solo)
Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA (solo)
“James Brown and Caio Fonseca, New Color Etchings,” Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Summer 2001,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2000 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
“Painting,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Processes,” Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton and Vancouver, Canada
“Acquisitions,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Abstraction,” Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1998 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Knoedler & Company, New York (solo)
1997 “Basically Black & White,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
“Purely Painting," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
“Contemporary Masterworks,” Knoelder & Company, New York
1996 Knoedler & Company, New York
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Meredith Long Gallery, Houston
1995 John Berggruen Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
Essence & Persuasion: The Power of Black & White, Anderson Gallery Buffalo, NY
An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
1994 About Color, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
1993 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
Summer Invitational, David Beitzel Gallery New York, NY
1991 Galeria Anna Ricart, Barcelona, Spain
1985 Villa D'elatre Lucca, Italy

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
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