BIOGRAPHY |
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1936 |
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Born in Valparaiso, Chile. |
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1945-54 |
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Studied at a Jesuit School in Santiago, Chile.
Studied art in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes in Santiago. |
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1954 |
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First exhibition at "Salón 13" in Santiago. |
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1955 |
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Lived in Santiago and Concepción, Chile.
Paints and also writes poetry. Dances professionally with the Compañia de Ballet de Chile.
Works for Teatro de Ensayo of the Universidad Católica de Chile. |
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1961 |
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Leaves Chile for Europe. Establishes residence in Madrid. |
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1968 |
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Spends six months working in the Philippines. |
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1972 |
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Moves to Tangier |
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1972-2003 |
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The artist lives and works in Chile and Tangier. |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2004 |
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Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
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2003 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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Marlborough Monaco, Monaco |
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2000 |
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Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1999 |
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Marlborough Gallery, Madrid |
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1998 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1997 |
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Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida |
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1995 |
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Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain |
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1994 |
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Santiago, Chile |
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1993-94 |
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Museo del Grabado Español Contemporaneo, Granada,
Spain |
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1993 |
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Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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1992 |
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F.I.A.C., Grand Palais, Paris |
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1991 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1989 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1987-88 |
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Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; traveled to Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, and Duke University Museum of
Art, Durham, North Carolina |
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1985 |
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Marlborough Gallery, New York (pastels) |
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1984 |
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Galería Quintana, Bogota, Columbia
Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1983 |
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ARCO, Madrid
Marlborough Fine Art, London |
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1982 |
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Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico |
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1981 |
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Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1980 |
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F.I.A.C., Grand Palais, Paris |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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1991 |
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Realismos: Arte Contemporáneo Españ , Ashai
Shimbum, Nihonbashi, Takashimaya, Tokyo; Nanha Takashimaga, Osaka; Shijo Takashimaga Kioto; Takashimaya, Yokohama
Latin American Drawing Today, San Diego Museum of Art, California
Selections from the Mary Crosby Kemper Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri |
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1990 |
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ARCO 90, Madrid, Ocho Artistas Latinoamericanos,
Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogotá |
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1989 |
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Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980, The Hayward
Gallery, London |
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1987-88 |
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Recent Works by Arikha, Bacon, Botero, Bravo, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj,
López-Garcia, Mason, Rivers, Welliver, Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1987 |
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Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing, The Art Institute of
Chicago, Illinois
The First America: Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York |
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1986-87 |
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The Foundation Veranneman Invites Marlborough, Foundation
Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium |
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1985 |
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El Desnudo: Oleos, Dibujos, Esculturas, Galeria Alfred Wild, Bogota,
Columbia
Pastels, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
The Classic Tradition in Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Twentieth Century American and European Artists, Claude Bernard Gallery, New York |
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1984 |
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International Masters of Contemporary Figuration, Marlborough Fine
Art, Tokyo |
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1983 |
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Works on Paper by: Arikha, Botero, Bravo, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj,
López- García, Petlin, Rivers, Welliver, Marlborough Gallery, New York |
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1982 |
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Drawings, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Important Paintings by European Figurative Artists, F.I.A.C., Grand Palais, Paris and Marlborough Gallery, New York
Homo Sapiens: The Many Images, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Forty Eighth Carnegie International Exhibition, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh and Seattle Art Museum |
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1981 |
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International Contemporary Art, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico
City |
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1980 |
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Realism and Latin American Painting: The Seventies, Center for Inter
American Relations, New York, and Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Latin American Paintings, Latin American Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Illusion and Reality, traveled to seven Australian museums
1976-78 Aspects of Realism, traveled to thirty Canadian museums |
AWARDS |
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2000 |
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Art Miami International Distinguished Artist Award |
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1996 |
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Gold Medal of Honor award from the Casita Maria Settlement House of
New York |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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Archer M. Huntington Gallery of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
The Art Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Doane College Museum, Crete, Nebraska
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum and Arts Center, Miami, Florida
Mitter Heinisches Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany
Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain
Museo de Artes Visuales, Coleccion Santa Cruz - Yaconi, Santiago, Chile
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Ponce Art Museum, Puerto Rico
Rufino Tamayo Museum of International Contemporary Art, Mexico
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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2004 |
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Furstenberg, Irs. "L’ermitage d’un esthete," Point de Vue,
pp.60-65.
Jansen, Eric. "L’antre D’ Un Esthete." OHLA!, Aptil 14-20, pp.70-75. |
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2003 |
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Spike, John T., "Under Wraps: ’Bravo’ to an artist who
tempts the eye." Art & Antiques, June 2003, p. 96 |
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2001 |
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M. Ivelic, et al. Museo de Artes Visuales. Coleción Santa Cruz -
Yaconi. Santiago, Fundación Cultural Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro, pp. 58, 157, illus. |
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2000 |
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González De Vega, J. "El Mensaje enriquecedor de Claudio
Bravo." Galeria Antiqvaria, January 2000, no. 179 |
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1998 |
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Viveros-Faune, Christian, "Claudio Bravo," Art Nexus,
November 1998- January 1999, p. 94-96
Klein, Lee, "Lee Klein: Howard Hodgkin & Claudio Bravo" Night
Anchea, Maximo, "Exitosa apertura tiene pintor Claudio Bravo en Nueva York," el nuevo hudson, May 9, p. 29
Breves, "Claudio Bravo en la Galeria Marlborough." Noticias de Arte, Spring 1998, n. 263, p. 32-33 |
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1997 |
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Turner, Elisa, "Bravo’s ’wrapped art’ beguiles the
eye," The Herald (Miami), November 16, p. 51 |
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1995 |
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"Claudio Bravo," ABC, May 5, p. 24
"Claudio Bravo," El Pais, May 6, 1995, p. 1 |
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1994 |
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Vyvyan, Patrick, "The Triumphal Return of Claudio Bravo,"
NewsReview, March 30
M. Eastman, Tomas, "En torno al arte de Claudio Bravo," El Mercurio, April 6
Fontecilla Eugenia, Maria, "Bravo por Bravo," El Mercurio, April 16.
"Unas 120 mil personas visitarin exposición de pintor Claudio Bravo," El Mercurio, May 9, pp.C1, C5. |
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1990 |
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Kozik, K. K., "Latin Painters: Claudio Bravo, Marlborough Gallery."
Cover, January, p. 18
Sullivan, Edward J., "Claudio Bravo in Tangier: Moroccan Tranquility Inspires the South American Artist," Architectural Digest, vol. 47, no. 3, March, pp.
234-238
"Gallery: Claudio Bravo, The Seventeenth Century Lives." The World & I, vol. 5, no. 9, September, pp. 210-219. |
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1988 |
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Schjeldahl, Peter. "Art Through the Eyes of Iowa: Loving it to
Death," 7 Days, May 25. |
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1987 |
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Kutner, Janet. "Where the Real Becomes Surreal," Dallas
Morning News, October 30.
Kuhl, Christopher, "The Spanish Influence: A Visual Legacy." Horizon, vol. 30, no. 10, December, pp. 17-30, 32. |
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1985 |
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Glueck, Grace. "When Today’s Artists Raid the Past."
The New York Times, July 21, sec. H, p. 29.
"Contemporary Spanish Realism." Mizue, Winter, no. 937.
Sullivan, Edward J. Claudio Bravo. New York: Rizoli/D. Skira. |
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1984 |
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Cooper, James F. "Realists Past, Present: Rembrandt at Morgan, Bravo
at Marlborough." New York Tribune. October 26. |
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1983 |
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Forgey, Benjamin. "How Universal is the
’International’?" ARTnews, March, pp. 98-101. |
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES |
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Claudio Bravo: New Works, Obras Recientes. Madrid: Galeria Marlborough, 1999-2000.
Claudio Bravo: Recent Works. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1998.
Claudio Bravo. Madrid: Galeria Marlborough, 1995.
Claudio Bravo (F.I.A.C.). New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1992.
Claudio Bravo: Works on Paper. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1991.
Sullivan, Edward J. "Claudio Bravo: Perceiving the Seen." Claudio Bravo Painter and Draftsman. Wisconsin: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1987.
Kanki, Keizo. "Claudio Bravo." Claudio Bravo. Tokyo: Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., 1987.
Sullivan, Edward J. "Claudio Bravo: Visionary of the Seen." Claudio Bravo Pastels 1985: Still Lifes. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1985.
Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1984.
Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings. London: Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., 1983.
Claudio Bravo: Bilder, Zeichnungen. Hamburg: Galerie Levy, 1981.
Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1981.
Claudio Bravo (brochure). Paris: F.I.A.C. 80, Grand Palais, 1980.
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