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Pepón Osorio    (Puerto Rican, 1955)

 Pepón Osorio - Badge of Honor (detail, Son's Bedroom) (Installations) h: 144 x w: 322 x d: 144 in / h: 365.8 x w: 817.9 x d: 365.8 cm
Pepón Osorio
Badge of Honor (detail, Son's Bedroom) 1995
 
 Pepón Osorio - My Beating Heart (Mixed Media)
Pepón Osorio
My Beating Heart 2002
 
 Pepón Osorio - Son's Room from Badge of Honor (Video/Film)
Pepón Osorio
Son's Room from Badge of Honor 1995
 
 Pepón Osorio - The Act of No Return (Installations)
Pepón Osorio
The Act of No Return 1999
 
 Pepón Osorio - Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio at Department of Human Services (Installations)
Pepón Osorio
Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio at Department of Human Services 2004
 
 

Biography
1955 Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico
1974 Universidad Inter-Ameriana, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
1978 BS, Herbert H. Lehman College Bronx, NY
1985 MA, Columbia University, New York, NY

Exhibitions
2009 Kréyol Factory: Exposition Des artistes interrogent les identités creoles. Parc La Villete, Paris, France
2008 NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.
2007 The Lighthouse “Badge of Honor: The Project” Philadelphia, PA
2007 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Part Two Selby Gallery Ringling School of Art and Design Sarasota, FL
2006 The Skowhegan School of Painting And Sculpture: 60 Years Colby College Museum of Art Waterville, ME
2005 Trials and Turbulence Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
2004 Trienal Poli/Grafica De San Juan: America Latina Y El Caribe, Instituto de Cultura, Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004 Trials and Turbulence: Pepón Osorio, An Artist in Residence at DHS, Institute ofContemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA and travel to Contemporary Art Centerof Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
2003 Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2003 Face to Face Bernice, Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Crisis Response, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2002 Pepón Osorio, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2001 New Land Marks: Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Pepón Osorio: Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Museo de San Juan Puerto Rico
1999 Fear and Denial & Las Twines, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
1999 Other Narratives, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
1999 The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center of Photography Midtown New York, NY
1999 Pepón Osorio: Transboricua, El Museo del Barrio New York, NY
1998 Pepón Osorio, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain
1998 Sala seis: Pepón Osorio, Museo Alejandro Otero Caracas, Venezuela
1997 - 1998 2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997, Africus Institute for Contemporary Art Johannesburg, South Africa
1997 VI Cuban Bienniale, Havana, Cuba
1997 American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum Tokoyo, Japan
1997 Pepón Osorio, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design Westchester, CA
1997 Badge of Honor, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
1996 - 1997 American Kaleidoscope: Themes & Perspectives in Recent Art, Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC
1996 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
1996 Badge of Honor, Ronald Feldman Fine Art New York, NY
1996 Pepón Osorio-Badge of Honor, The Newark Museum Newark, NJ
1995 Art at the Edge: Social Turf, High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA
1993 Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1993 Scene of The Crime (Whose Crime?), Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH
1991 Pepón Osorio, El Museo del Barrio New York, NY

Literature
Houston Chronicle. “NeoHooDoo.” Douglas Britt
Art in America. “Faith-Based Initiatives.” Charles Dee Mitchell
Pepón Osorio – Door to Door Published by EAP Press
Con To’ Los Hierros: A Retrospective of the Work of Pepón Osorio Published by El Museo del Barrio New York, NY
Artforum, "Plastic Heaven", Joan Acocella
The New York Times, " A Meditation on Masculinity Wrapped Up in a Barbershop"
Atlantica, "Pepón Osorio", Berta Sichel
Art Nexus, "Pepón Osorio: Redefining the Boundaries for Installation", Julia Herzberg
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Out of Ordinary Interiors, Pepón Osorio Makes Extraordinary Art", Monica Rhor
Daily News, "New York Genius at Work", Carol day
afterimage, "Millions of Colors", Berta Sichel
The New York Times, "Roving Taxis with a Message Told Through Art", Amei Wallach
Parachute, "Pepón Osorio", David Blatherwick
The New York Times, "Pepón Osorio 'Transboricua'", Holland Cotter
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