He directed the Escuela de Artes Plasticas in Maracaibo
1960 - 1969
created his notable Penetrables series which explored the movement of Kinetic art as it allowed the viewer to participate or move through the piece.
1973
the Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art opened in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela with a collection of his work
2005
Died Paris, France on January 20th and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
Exhibitions
2009
Jesús Rafaël Soto - Galerie Max Hetzler - Zimmerstrasse, Berlin Galería Cayón "Materia Gris" - Exposición colectiva - Galería Cayón, Madrid Latitudes: Mestres Latino-americanos na Coleção FEMSA - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo MAC Contemporâneo - Instalações - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
2008
Jesús R. Soto - Galería Elvira González, Madrid Latitudes: maestros latinoamericanos en la colección FEMSA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires Diagonal - Galería Cayón, Madrid Facets - Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 16th Biennale of Sydney - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image) - Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte - MUCA, Mexico City
2007
Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection, SMAM, Sintra - Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra Sammlung Gutmann - Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich Tamaño Real - Galería Cayón, Madrid The Geometry of Hope - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY
2006
Jesús Rafael Soto - Visioni in movimento - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo Jesus Rafael Soto - Vision en Movimiento - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires Estrecho Dudoso - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José Estrecho Dudoso - Fundación Ars Teor Etica, San José Zéro - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne Art on the Edge - , Omaha, NE
2005
Jesús Rafael Soto - Visión en movimiento - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City Jesús Rafael Soto – Venezuela - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA Soto - A Construção da Imaterialidade - Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba Soto: A Construção da Imaterialidade - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo Outside Europe - Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler - Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Das Progressive Museum Basel - Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich
2004
Jesús-Rafael Soto - Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Jesús-Rafael Soto - Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s-70s - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo. - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa Algorithmische Revolution. Zur Geschichte der interaktiven Kunst - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe The DaimlerChrysler Collection - Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town
2003
Jesús-Rafael Soto - Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris Soto - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Aperceptions - Guislain - États d'Art, Paris The DaimlerChrysler Collection - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
2002
Arte Múltipla - Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon Moderna Museet C/O Magasin 3 - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2001
El Arte Abstracto y la Galería Denise René - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Denise René - Espace Marais, Paris Bienal 50 Anos - Núcleo histórico - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
2000
From Cubism to Minimalism - A selection of Works by World Leading Artists - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
1999
bis 2000 deutsche und internationale Kunst seit 1960 - Galerie Neher GmbH & Co. KG, Essen
1998
Exposição Retrospectiva de Jesús Rafael Soto - SEEC - Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba Jesús Rafael Soto - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
1997
Jesús Rafael Soto - Retrospectiva - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Jesús Rafael Soto: Retrospektive - Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen, Reutlingen 1. Bienal do Mercosul - Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre
1996
Transformers: A Moving Experience - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington 23° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo colección permanente. novas incorporacións. colección fundación arco - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
1995
Bestandsaufnahme XII - Galerie m Bochum, Bochum
1994
22° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
1990
Jesus Rafael Soto - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop Konkret Zehn - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
1988
Zero, un movimiento europeo - Fundación Juan March, Madrid
1986
Point, ligne, plan - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
1984
Soto - Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City, NY ein anderes klima - a different climate (II) - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
1979
Soto, Oeuvres Actuelles - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
