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Carmen Herrera

Born in Havana, Cuba, May 1915
Worked and lived in Paris, 1948-1953
Currently lives and works in New York

Solo Exhibitions

1998   
Carmen Herrera: The Black and White Paintings, El Museo del Barrio, New York

1992   
Duo Geo: Carmen Herrera-Ernesto Briel, Jadite Galleries, New York

1989   
Rastovski Gallery, New York

1987   
Rastovski Gallery, New York

1986   
Two Minimalists, Four Decades Apart: Carmen Herrera-Elizabeth Poverono, Rastovski Gallery, New York

1984-85   
Carmen Herrera: A Retrospective, Alternative Museum, New York

1965   
Cisneros Gallery, New York

1963   
Trabia Gallery, New York

1956   
Galeria Sudamericana, New York

1955   
Eglinton Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1951   
Lyceum, Havana, Cuba.

Group Exhibitions

2004  
Concrete Realities,Latin Collector art center, New York

1994   
Paper Visions V, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Cuban Presence, Vista Gallery, New York
Cuban Artists: Expressions in Graphics, Jadite Galleries, New York

1993
Artists Space, New York

1989
Rastovski Gallery, New York
The Latin American Spirit, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

1987
Rastovski Gallery, New York
Outside Cuba, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Arts, New York
Outside Cuba, Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

1981
The Big Picture, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York

1974
Center for Inter-American Relations, New York

1973
Women Choose Women, Women Inter-Art, New York

1972
C.W. Post, Long Island University, Brookville, New York
Contemporary Art Exhibition, Loeb Student Center, NYU, New York

1969
Graphics 1969, Syracuse, New York

1968
Five Latin American Artists at Work in New York, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York

1967
Art Today, Syracuse, New York

1965
New York Cuban Group, Cisneros Gallery, New York

1962
Geometric Painting: Classic and Romantic, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1956
City Center, New York

1953
Quelques Femmes Peintres, Galerie Olga Bogroff, Paris, France

1952
Peintres de Paris, Salon d’art Moderne, Zurich, Switzerland

1951
Art Cubain Contemporain, Musee de’art Moderne, Paris, France

1952 - 1952
Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France

Special Events

1994
Artists in Exile: Carmen Herrera. 30 minute documentary about the life and career 1of the artist. PBS, National Broadcast. Producer/Director Ray Blanco

1993
Cuban Artists Collection. Vol. II (Portfolio of Serigraphs). Miami Press Publishers & Distributors, Inc. Miami, Florida

Collections

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation, New York University Medical Center, New York
Cintas Foundation Collection, Institute of International Education, New York
Museo de Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Museo de la Habana, Palacio de Bellas Artes Havana, Cuba
Museo de la Habana, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Awards

Two Grants from the Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York
Grant from the Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), 1977-1978

Education

J.F. Edelman, Director of the Academy of San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba
Drawing and Painting.
Marymount College, Paris, France. Painting and Art History
Architecture at Havana University
Art Students League, New York

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