CLAUDIO BRAVO
BIOGRAPHY
1936 Born in Valparaíso, Chile
1945-54 Studied at a Jesuit School in Santiago, Chile
Studied art in the studio of Miguel Venegas Cienfuentes, Santiago, Chile
1954 First exhibition at “Salón 13” in Santiago
1955 Lived in Santiago and Concepción, Chile
Paints and also writes poetry; danced professionally with the Compañia de Ballet de Chile
Works for Teatro de Ensayo of the Universidad Católica de Chile
1961 Left Chile for Europe and establishes residence in Madrid, Spain
1968 Spent six months working in the Philippines
1972 Moved to Tangier, Morocco
1972-2011 The artist lived and worked in Tangier, Marrakech, and Taroudant, Morocco
2011 Passed away on June 4 in his home in Taroudant, Morocco
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Claudio Bravo: Selected Works from the Estate,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2012 “Claudio Bravo: Sojourn in Manila,” Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines.
2011 “Claudio Bravo,” Museo des Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
“Claudio Bravo: The Chilean Years, 1951-1960,” Corporación Cultural de Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
2010 “Claudio Bravo: Recent Work,” Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2008 “Claudio Bravo: a bestiary,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Claudio Bravo: Recent Work,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2007 “Claudio Bravo,” La Biennale di Venezia: 52 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Museo Diocesano, Chiostro di Sant’Apollonia, Venice, Italy
“Claudio Bravo,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico; traveled to Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France
2006 “Claudio Bravo – Peintures,” Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux, France
“Claudio Bravo – Pinturas y Dibujos,” Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain; traveled to Marlborough Fine Art, London, England; Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
“Claudio Bravo,” Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
2005 “Pastel Society of America’s Board of Directors Exhibition: Hall of Fame Honoree Claudio Bravo,” The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2004 “Claudio Bravo et le Maroc,” Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2003 “Claudio Bravo: Still Life,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Claudio Bravo – Oeuvres Recentes,” Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1999 “Claudio Bravo – New Works (Obras Recientes),” Marlborough Gallery,
Madrid, Spain; traveled to Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, FL;
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY; Galería A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago, Chile
1998 “Claudio Bravo,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Claudio Bravo: Wrapped Packages,” Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
1995 “Claudio Bravo,” Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
1994 Museo Nacional de Bellas Arte, Santiago, Chile
1993-94 Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo, Granada, Spain
1993 Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Madison, WI
1992 F.I.A.C. – Marlborough Gallery New York, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1991 “Claudio Bravo: Works on Paper,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1988 “Claudio Bravo: Painter and Draftsman,” Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; traveled to Meadows Museum,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; Museum of Art,
Duke University, Durham, NC
1987-88 “Claudio Bravo,” Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
1985 “Claudio Bravo Pastels, 1985: Still Lifes,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Galería Quintana, Bogotá, Columbia
“Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1983 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
1982 “Claudio Bravo: Pinturas y Dibujos,” Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
1981 Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany
“Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1980 F.I.A.C., Grand Palais, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Latin Beat,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2011-2012 “Le Cabinet de Curiosités,” Marlborough Gallery and Steinitz Gallery at 6 Harrison Street, New York, NY
2010 “Art Chicago 2010,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Look Again,” Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2009 “Art Chicago 2009,” Atrium Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008-09 “Latin American Masters,” Marlborough New York, NY
2007 “International Blitz,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 “With Spirit,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Stillness,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 “Transforming the Commonplace,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2001 “Latin American Art: La Belleza y la Fuerza,” Elkon Gallery, New York
2000 “Art Miami 2000,” Miami, FL
1998 “Forma y Figuracion: obras maestras de la coleccion Blake-Purnell,” Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
1997 “ART 1997 CHICAGO: 5th Annual Expo,” Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1996 “Latin Viewpoints into the Mainstream,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
“Su Carta,” Galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome, Italy
1995 “3 Continents: Botero, Bravo, Rivers, Valdés,” A.M.S. Marlborough, Santiago, Chile
1994 “The Human Body,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
“Debut: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Kansas City Art Institute,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
1993 “Drawings III,” Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 “Jardín de Vidrio,” Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid
1991 “Realismos: Arte Contemporáneo Español,” 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, Kansas City, MO
1990 “ARCO 90, Madrid, Ocho Artistas Latinoamericanos,” Galería Fernando Quintana, Bogotá, Columbia
1989 “Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980,” The Hayward Gallery, London, England
1987-88 “Recent Works by Arikha, Bacon, Botero, Bravo, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj, López-Garcia, Mason, Rivers, Welliver,” Marlborough Gallery, New York
1987 “Recent Developments in Latin American Drawing,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“The First America: Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art,” Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
1986-87 “The Foundation Veranneman Invites Marlborough,” Foundation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium
1985 “El Desnudo: Oleos, Dibujos, Esculturas,” Galeria Alfred Wild, Bogotá, 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, NY
1984 “International Masters of Contemporary Figuration,” Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
1983 “Works on Paper by: Arikha, Botero, Bravo, Grooms, Katz, Kitaj, López-García, Petlin, Rivers, Welliver,” Marlborough Gallery, New York
1982 “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
1981 “International Contemporary Art,” Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
1980 “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
1977-78 “Illusion and Reality,” traveled to seven Australian museums
1976-78 “Aspects of Realism,” traveled to thirty Canadian museums
AWARDS
2005 “Hall of Fame Honoree,” The Pastel Society of America, New York, NY
2000 “International Distinguished Artist Award,” Art Miami, Miami, FL
“Gran Cruz de Alfonso X El Sabion,” Madrid, Spain
1996 “Gold Medal of Honor,” Casita Maria Settlement House of New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Doane College Museum, Crete, Nebraska
The Frances Lehmana Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
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, Colección Santa Cruz – Yaconi, Santiago, Chile
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Peter Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Rufino Tamayo Museum of International Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Barahona, Valeria. "La broma infinita de Claudio Bravo." El Mostrador, June 06, 2011.
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Krolikowski, James. "Thierry's Toys." Interview, November 01, 2011.
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2010 Marlborough Chelsea, Look Again. New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2010.
2009 De Jesus, Carlos Suarez. “Fresh Produce,”Miami Times, Miami, FL, September 01, 2009
Friswold, Paul. “Animal Magnetism,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO, January 22-28, pp. 21-22.
2004 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.
2003 Spike, John T., “Under Wraps: ‘Bravo’ to an artist who tempts the eye.” Art & Antiques, June, p. 96
2001 M. Ivelic, et al. Museo de Artes Visuales. Coleción Santa Cruz – Yaconi. Santiago, Fundación Cultural Plaza Mulato Gil de Castro, pp. 58, 157,illus.
2000 González De Vega, J. “El Mensaje enriquecedor de Claudio Bravo.” Galeria Antiqvaria, January, no. 179
1998 Viveros-Faune, Christian, “Claudio Bravo,” Art Nexus, November 1998-January, 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
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1997 Turner, Elisa, “Bravo’s ‘wrapped art’ beguiles the eye,” The Herald (Miami), November 16, p. 51
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1994 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.
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1990 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
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1988 Schjeldahl, Peter. “Art Through the Eyes of Iowa: Loving it to Death,” 7 Days, May 25.
1987 Kutner, Janet. “Where the Real Becomes Surreal,” Dallas Morning News, October 30.
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1985 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.
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1984 Cooper, James F. “Realists Past, Present: Rembrandt at Morgan, Bravo Marlborough.” New York Tribune. October 26.
Forgey, Benjamin. “How Universal is the ‘International’?” ARTnews, March, pp. 98-101.
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
“Claudio Bravo: Recent Work.” New York: Marlborough Chelsea, 2010.
“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.