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Jesús Rafael Soto Biography
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1923 |
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Born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
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1942 |
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Recipient, scholarship from the Guyana regional authority to study at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas in Caracas, Venezuela
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1947 |
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Appointed director of the School of Art in the small town of Maracaibo, Venezuela
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1950 |
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Embarked from the port of La Guaira on an Italian cargo ship bound for Europe and immediately took a train to Paris, France
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1951 |
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Attended lectures by Léon Degand entitled From Figuration to Abstraction at the Atelier d'Art Abstrait, Paris, France
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1960 |
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Recipient, Venezuelan National Painting Award
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1968 |
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Recipient, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
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1972 |
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Recipient, Orden Andrés Bello en Primer Grado, Caracas, Venezuela
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1973 |
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Opening of Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
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1999 |
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Recipient, Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela
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Died in Paris, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Black and Light, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin, Germany
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2009
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Jesús Rafael Soto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Zimmerstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Galería Cayón: Materia Gris, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
Latitudes: Mestres Latino-americanos na Coleção FEMSA, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Instalações, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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2008
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Jesús R. Soto, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
Latitudes: Maestros Latinoamericanos en la Colección FEMSA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diagonal, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
Facets, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
16th Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The Implications of Image), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
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2007
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Latin American Art in the Berardo Collection, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Sammlung Gutmann, Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Tamaño Real , Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain
The Geometry of Hope, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
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2006
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Jesús Rafael Soto: Visioni in Movimento, Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Jesus Rafael Soto: Vision en Movimiento, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Estrecho Dudoso, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica
Zéro, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Art on the Edge, Omaha, NE
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2005
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Jesús Rafael Soto, Visión en Movimiento, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuela, Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Soto: A Construção da Imaterialidade, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil
Soto: A Construção da Imaterialidade, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Das Progressive, Museum Basel, Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
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2004
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Jesús-Rafael Soto, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
Jesús-Rafael Soto, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
Beyond Geometry, Experiments in Form 1940s-70s, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Attraversare Genova, Percorsi e Linguaggi Internazionali del Contemporaneo, Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Algorithmische Revolution, Zur Geschichte der Interaktiven Kunst, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Daimler Chrysler Collection, Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
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2003
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Jesús-Rafael Soto, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
Soto, Galerie Denise René, Rive Gauche, Paris, France
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Daimler Chrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Aperceptions, Guislain, États d'Art, Paris, France
The Daimler Chrysler Collection, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2002
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Arte Múltipla, Galeria 111, Lisbon, Portugal
Moderna Museet C/O Magasin 3, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
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2001
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El Arte Abstracto y la Galería Denise René, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
Accrochage de Groupe, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
Bienal 50 Anos, Núcleo Histórico, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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2000
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From Cubism to Minimalism: A selection of Works by World Leading Artists, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
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1999
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Bis 2000 Deutsche und Internationale Kunst Seit 1960, Galerie Neher GmbH & Co. KG, Essen, Germany
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1998
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Exposição Retrospectiva de Jesús Rafael Soto, SEEC, Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba, Brazil
Jesús Rafael Soto, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
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1997
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Jesús Rafael Soto: Retrospectiva, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Jesús Rafael Soto: Retrospektive, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Bienal do Mercosul, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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1996
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Transformers: A Moving Experience, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
23rd Bienal de São Paulo, Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Colección Permanente: Novas Incorporacións, Colección Fundación Arco, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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1990
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Jesus Rafael Soto, Quadrat Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Konkret Zehn, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
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1988
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Zero, Un Movimiento Europeo, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
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1986
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Point, Ligne, Plan, Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
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1984
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Soto, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Ein Anderes Klima: A Different Climate (II), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
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1979
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Soto: Oeuvres Actuelles, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
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1974
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Jesús Rafael Soto, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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1961
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Bewogen Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
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MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
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Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
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Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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