Ángel
OTERO
Born 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Lives and work in New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- MOMA
- The Guggemheim Museum
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
- Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico
- Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
- DePaul University Museum, Chicago Istanbul Modern, Turkey
- Margulies Collection, Miami
- Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art North Carolina Museum Of Art
- UBS Art Collection, Chicago
- Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
- François Pinault Collection
- Whitney Museum
SOLO SHOW
- 2020
- “Present Memory”, Lehmann Maupin, Online Viewing Room
- 2019
- Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (Forthcoming)
- Susanna Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles (Forthcoming)
- “Milagros”, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- 2018
- “Piel de Luna”, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul
- 2017
- The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, USA
- Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, USA
- 2016
- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
- Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, California
- Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
- 2015
- Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
- Lehmann Maupin, New YorkContemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
- “Lago”, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
- 2014
- Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA
- 2013
- “Gates of Horn and Ivory”, September, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- “Ángel Otero, Recent Work”, February, Walter Otero Contemporary Art (WOCA),
Puerto Rico - “Material Discovery”, February, SCAD Museum of Art Savannah, USA
- “Material Discovery”, February, SCAD Museum of Art Hong Kong
- 2012
- “Angel Otero: Solo Exhibition”, November, Brand New Gallery, Milan
- “The Sound of Painting”, November, Palazzo Saluzzo, Italia
- “Angel Otero: New Works”, October, Contemporary Museum of Art CAM Raleigh
- Isa Gallery, Mumbay, India
- Istanbul´74, Istanbul
- 2011
- “Memento”, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- “The Dangerous Ability to Fascinate Other People”, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
- 2010
- Kavi Gupta, Chicago.
- Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago.
- 2009
- Galería Leyendecker (con Scott Wolfson), Tenerife.
- 2008
- “Cooking Boogaloo” Contemporary Art Workshop Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
- “Angel Otero, Recent Paintings”, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
- 2006
- “Revelando Enigmas” Galeria Prinardi, San Juan, Puerto Rico.




GROUP SHOW
- 2020
- “be/longing”, Hong Kong
- 2019
- “The Bronx Museum of the Arts Ball”, The Bronx Museum, NY
- “The Other Side of Now”, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami
- “Cut – Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present”, Frost Art Museum, Miami
- “Relational Undercurrents – Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago”, Portland Art Museum, Portland
- “Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox”, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
- “Relational Undercurrents – Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago”, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware.
- 2018
- “Gridology”, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong.
- “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipielago”, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York.
- “Kick Your Game”, Children’s Museum of Art, NY.
- “Inherent Structure”, Wexner Center For The Arts, Columbus.
- “Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts”, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York.
- 2017
- “Look Me In The Eye Sister”, Galería Leyendecker, Canarias.
- “Art Goes Logomo”, Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland.
- “The Chaos Theory”, Sag Harbor, New York.
- 2016
- “Friends With Benefits”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife.
- “SPlotch “, Sperone Westwater, NY.
- “Surface Area”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
- 2015
- PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
- “Civilization and Discontents: SAIC Alumni Exhibition”, Sullivan Galleries.
- “Inherited”, Bric, Brooklyn, NY.
- “The Fire Next Time”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife.
- 2014
- “Between Worlds”, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India
- “Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
- “Mystic Fire, Paradise Row”, London, United Kingdom.
- Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston.
- 2012
- “Frieze New York”, mayo, Nueva York
- “Art Stage Singapore 2012”, enero, Singapore
- 2011
- “Art Basel Miami Beach 2011”, diciembre, Miami
- “Frieze Art Fair 2011”, octubre, Nueva York
- “The Second Seating for the Last Supper”, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
- “NY: New Perspectives”, Brand New Gallery, Milan
- El Museo´s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011, El Museo del Barrio, New York
- 2010
- “Misericordia”, Prism, Los Angeles
- “Touched”, Lehmann Maupin, New York
- “Fever Dreams”, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago
- “Nothing to see here – move along”, CTRL Gallery, Houston
- Arco’10, Stand Galería Leyendecker
- 2009
- Arco ´09. Stand Galería Leyendecker
- “Constellations”, Museum of Contemporary, Chicago
- “Gravity Buffs”, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago
- 2008
- “New Wave”, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- “Latino Nation, USA”, University Museum, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
- “New Insight Exhibition”, Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- “Group Painting Exhibition”, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- “You Are In My Space”, Gallery G2 and Project Space, Chicago, Illinois
AWARDS AND RESIDENCES
- 2017 Vanucci Artist Residency, Umbria, Italy
- 2013 Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado
- 2009 Leonore Annenberg Prize
- 2007 Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- 2007 First Place Award and Members Choice Award, Visual Art Competition
- 2007 Civic and Arts Foundation, Union Leage Club of Chicago
- 2007 BFA Fellowship Award
- 2005 Recognition Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago