Ángel OTERO
ES Ángel Otero (nacido en 1981 en Santurce, Puerto Rico; vive y trabaja en Brooklyn, Nueva York) es más conocido por sus pinturas, collages y obras escultóricas basadas en procesos que veneran las cualidades inherentes de su material preferido, la pintura al óleo. Empleando varios métodos de collage, Otero explora el potencial de la abstracción para comprometer significativamente la memoria y la identidad usando la línea, la forma y el color.
EN Ángel Otero (born in 1981 in Santurce, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) is best known for his process-based paintings, collages, and sculptural works that honor the inherent qualities of his preferred material, oil paint. Employing various collage methods, Otero explores the potential of abstraction to meaningfully engage memory and identity using line, form, and color.
PUBLIC COLLETIONS
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 EXHIBITIONS
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 York Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
“Lago”, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2014
Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de TenerifeSusanne 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.
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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