BIOGRAPHY OF GEGO

...[Double Curves], Galeria Conkright, Caracas. 1973 Recent Drawings, Galeria Conkright, Caracas. 1975 Gego. Drawings for Projects, Instituto de Diseño, Fundación, Neumann INCE, Caracas. 1977 Gego, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas. 1980 Variations of Environmental (poem by Alfredo Silva Estrada in Gego’s honor), Cadafe Room, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (east wing). 1981 Environmental (permanent installation), Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas. 1984 Drawings without paper, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 1985 5.85 Drawing without paper, Museo de Barquisimeto, Barquisimeto, Venezuela. 1988 Gego recent works, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas. 1990 Weavings, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas. 1994 Gego, A Look at Her Work, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas. 1996 Gego, Drawings, Engravings, Weavings, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas. 2000 Gego 1955-1990, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 2001-2002 Questioning the Line: Gego 1955-1990, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City. Exhibiciones Grupales 1954 XV Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. 1955 XVI Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. Collages and Poems, Galeria Grupo Sardio, Caracas. A Tribute to Soto, Centro Progesional del Este, Caracas. Abstract Art in Venezuela, Galeria Don Hatch, Caracas. 1958 XIX Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Drawings, Sculptures, Pottery of Venezuela, Venezuelan Pavilion at the Brussels International Fair. 1959 XX Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 1960 Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1959, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent Sculpture, David Herbert Gallery, New York. New Names, Betty Parson’s Gallery, New York. 1961 Graphic1. Graphic and Advertising Art, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. XII Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezonlano, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas. From Rodin to our Times, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas. Untitled, Galeria El Muro, Caracas. 1962 IV National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. 1963 2°Bienial Exhibition. Drawing U.S.A. 63, Saint Paul Art Center, Minnesota. I Bienal Americana de Grabado, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago. 1964 White on White, The Contemporaries, New York. Print: The Image and the Means. Grunwald Graphic Art Foundation, UCLA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California. One Hundred Contemporary Prints Pratt Graphic Art Center, Jewish Museum, New York. Third Exhibition Hall of Young Sculptors. Nach Schwäbischem Rezept am Broadway Litographiert, Amerika Haus Stuttgart. Venezuelan Engravers, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Exhibition Hall, Caracas. The Braniff International Airways Collection, University of Texas, Austin. Seventh National Exhibition of Drawing and Engraving, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. 1966 Art of Latin America since Independence (itinerant exhibition organized by the University of Texas at Austin), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; University of Texas Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Art; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans. Movement and Color, Galeria Conkright, Caracas. 1967 XXVII Salón Oficial Annual de Arte Venezolano, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Recent Latin American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York. XII Salón D’Empaire de pintura y escultura, Consejo Municipal de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Grabados 1967, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza Exhibition Hall, Caracas. Confrontation 67, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas. Tapestries from the Fundación Neumann Workshop, Sala Mendoza, Caracas. 1968 Sculpture, mural and fountains at Hemis Fair ’68, San Antonio Fair Inc., San Antonio, Texas. XXIX Salón Oficial Anal de Arte Venezolano. Dibujo Grabado, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. New Dimensions in Lithography. An exhibition recently selected from The Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Fisher and Quinn Galleries, Southern California University, California. Painting and Engraving in Venezuela today, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá. Color and Movement, Galeria Conkright, Caracas. 1969 Drawings, Galeria Conkright, Caracas. Kinetic Art and Its Origins, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas. Latin America: New Paintings and Sculpture. Juan Downey, Agustin Fenández, Gego, Gabriel Morera, Center for Inter-American Relations Art Gallery, New York. 1970 First Latin American Engraving Biennial of San Juan, San Juan de Puerto Rico. 41ST International Exhibition, Northwest printmakers, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, Washington. 1971 Tamarind: A Renaissance of Lithography. A loan Exhibition From the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, International Foundation, California. 1972 Plastic Arts in Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Group Exhibition, Galeria Conkright, Caracas. Drawing, Sala Mendoza, Caracas. 1975 A Brief History of Engraving on Metal, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Connections and Contrasts in Venezuelan Painting, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 7e Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. Gego, Otero y Negret, Galeria Adler Castillo, Caracas. 1976 Inauguration of the new wing of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. A Brief History of Engraving on Metal, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 1977 Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas. Current Art of Latin America, Centro Cultural de la villa de Madrid, Madrid. 1978 A Short History of Drawing in Venezuela, Estrudio Actual, Caracas. Venezuelan Symposium in Paris, UNESCO, Paris. Contemporary Sculpture in Venezuela, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas. The Hand, The Silk, The Color- The Cobalto Workshop, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Caracas. 1979 Venezuelan Graphics, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuelan Constructive Art 1945-1965. Genesis and Development, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas. 1981 Spielraum-Raumspiele, Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany. 1983 Four Decades of American Painting and Sculpture in Venezuelan Collections: 1940-1980, Museo de Arte La Riconada, Caracas. 1984 Second Sculpture Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Francisco Narvaez, Porlamar, Margarita. Acquisitions and Donations),1982-1983, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Caracas. 1988 Art of America. Selected Pieces of the Collection, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. Interaction on Another Scale, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas. The Imagination of Transparency, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. The Latin Spirit: Art and Artists in United States, 1920-1970, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York; El Paso Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida. 1989 Art for a Fiftieth Anniversary, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 1990 Weavings, Galeria Sotavento, Caracas. 1992 Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain. 1995 Latin American Women Artists, 1915-1995, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA The Prodigious Decade. Venezuelan Art during the Sixties, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas. 1996 XXIII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Salas Especiales, São Paulo, Brazil. Inside the visible. An Ellipt...

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