| Born
in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1944 |
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Studied
at National School of Fine Arts, Montevideo (MFA, 1968)
Weissenssee School of Art & Architecture, Berlin (1970)
Leipzig School of Graphic Arts, Leipzig, Germany (1971) |
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| Lives
in New Paltz and New York |
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| Selected
Solo Exhibitions |
2010
Rimer Cardillo: Cupí. Museum of Kiscell, Medieval Trinitarian Space, Budapest, Hungary
Unique Works on Paper, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, New York
Sinergia del micro y el macrcosmo, Galeria del Paseo Arte Contemporaneo, Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
2009
New Carapaces and Bronzes, Galeria del Paseo Arte Contemporaneo, Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Exposition Rimer Cardillo. ExAcadémie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA, Beirut, Lebanon
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2008
ARTEBA’08 International Art Fair, Open Space, La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Works on Paper and Carapaces, Galeria del Paseo Arte Contemporaneo, Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
2007
Caparazones cajas y pajaros, del Paseo Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Birds by Rimer Cardillo, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
Trabajos sobre papel y algunas cajas, del Paseo Arte Contemporaneo, Punta del Este,
Manantiales, Maldonado, Uruguay |
2006
Tattooed Bird Boxes, Medialia Gallery, New York |
2004
Impressions (and Other Images of Memory), Samuel Dorsky Museum,
State University of New York, New Paltz |
2001
Cupí degli Uccelli, Venice Biennial |
| Vanishing
Habitats, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami |
1999
Ñandú, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York |
1998
Rimer Cardillo: Araucaria, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New
York |
| The
Squirrel My Grandma Never Saw, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York |
1996
Pachamazon, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York |
1995
Catafalque, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York |
1994
Espinillo, National Museum of Anthropology, Montevideo |
1992
Rimer Cardillo: Works on Paper, Galeria Sur, Punta del Este,
Uruguay |
1991
Charrúas y Montes Criollos, Salon Municipal de Exposiciones
and Museo Fernando Garcia, Montevideo |
1989
Rimer Cardillo: Altares, INTAR Gallery, New York |
| Rimer
Cardillo: Grabados en relieve, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Valle,
Colombia |
1988
Rimer Cardillo, Bachus Gallery, Boras, Sweden |
| Rimer
Cardillo, Monica Betnbasat Gallery, Norrkoping, Sweden |
| Rimer
Cardillo, Galeria Latina, Montevideo |
1986
Obra Reciente: Rimer Cardillo, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,
Montevideo |
| Rimer
Cardillo, Strand Gallery, Sodertalje, Sweden |
1984
Works On Paper, Gallery 101, Malmo, Sweden |
1983
Rimer Cardillo, Galeria Vermeer, Buenos Aires |
| Rimer
Cardillo: Grabados, Galeria Latina, Montevideo |
1982
Rimer Cardillo: Barroquismos Latinos, INTAR Gallery, New York |
1980
Rimer Cardillo, Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale |
1978
Rimer Cardillo, Trapecio Gallery, Lima |
1977
Rimer Cardillo, Condado Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
1975
Rimer Cardillo, Gerdao Gallery and Allianca Francesa, Porto
Alegre, Brazil |
| Rimer
Cardillo, Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires |
1973
Chicharras y Mariposas Nocturnas, Galeria Losada, Montevideo |
1968
Rimer Cardillo: Grabados, Galeria Amigos del Arte, Montevideo |
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| Selected
Group Exhibitions |
2009
The VIth Novosibirsk International Biennial of contemporary Graphic Art, Novosibirsk, Russia 2009.
Patterns in Practice, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
Rimer Cardillo / Darryl Lauster. The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington. Arlington, TX
Exposition Rimer Cardillo. ExAcadémie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA, Beirut, Lebanon
New Carapaces and Bronzes, Galería del Paseo Arte Contemporáneo, Manantiales, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
2008
International Print Show La huella del grabado (The mark of Print II), Cultural Center of the Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Buenos Aires Photo 2008, International Photography Art Fair Exhibition, “Sets for insects”, Del Paseo Gallery Stand, Buenos Aires, Argentina
On Paper: Nature, Line and Layer, Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
20th Anniversary Exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
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2007
Prints Tokyo 2007 International Print Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Episodes and Itineraries: Graphic Installations by South American Artists, Sherman Gallery, Boston, MA |
2006
Vanishing Boundaries, The Pearl Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY |
2005
Cupí and Birds of Clay, Oil and Ashes, THRUST –
The 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana
Myths , Science, Metaphors: Rimer Cardillo and Jani Konstantinovski
Puntos, Jagiellonian Library, Cracow, Poland
Art of the Print, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
Contradicciones y Convivencias: Arte de America latina 1981-2000.
Luis Angel Arango Library in Bogota, Colombia. Inter-American
Development Bank, Washington D.C |
2004
Pájaros de aceite, barro y ceniza, Bienal del Barro,
Centro Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela |
2003
From the Purple Land to the Hudson River Valley, Tate Modern,
London |
| International
Print Triennial of Cracow |
| Metaphors
of Caribbean and Latin American Trans-nationalism, |
| Dominik
Rostworowski gallery in Krakow, L'espace Alexandre Dumas inParis |
| Selections:
A Shriek from an Invisible Box, Medialia Art Gallery, New York |
2002
Premio Figari, Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
| Rayuela/Hopscotch:
15 Contemporary Latin American Artists |
| The
University Art Gallery at The University of Scranton, |
| The
Mahady Gallery at Marywood University, Pennsylvania |
2001
Paraíso, Second Biennial of Buenos Aires |
| A
Shriek from an Invisible Box, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
2000
Really Big Prints, National Prints Invitational, Rockford College
Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois |
1999
Prints by Latin American Masters, Chateau d' Argenteuil, Waterloo,
Belgium |
1997
First Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Landcapes:
An Exhibition of Sculpture, The Washington Sculptors Group and
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States,
Washington, D.C. |
| Contemporary
Latin American Art from the Ulla and Greger Ollson Art Collection,
Kultur Centrum, Ronneby, Sweden |
1996
In the Making: The First Ten Years of the Permanent Collection,
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York |
| Segunda
Bienal del Barro de America, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia
Imber, Caracas |
1995
Twenty-fifth Anniversary exhibition, Artists Talk Back: Reaffirming
Spirituality, Part III, El Museo del Barrio, New York |
| Confronting
Nature: Silenced Voices, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University,
Orange, California |
| Grabadores
Latinoamericanos y del Caribe 1960-1970, Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriquena, San Juan |
1994
Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Contemporary Latin American
Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
| Fifth
Havana Biennial, Havana |
| inSITE94,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California and Tijuana,
Mexico |
1993
Revelaciones/Revelations: Hispanic Art of Evanescence, Herbert
F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca |
| Personal
Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections, Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Quincentenary:
Recollections/Resistances/Reconstructions, Hillwood Art Museum,
Long Island University, Brookville |
1992
Uncommon Ground: 23 Latin American Artists, College Art Gallery,
State University of New York, New Paltz |
| Remerica!
Amerika 1492-1992, Bertha and Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter
College, New York |
| Bienal
del Barro de America, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber,
Caracas |
| Rediscoveries:
The Mythmakers, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, New York |
| Five
Centuries after the Collision: Five Contemporary Artists' Visions,
The Art Gallery, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn |
1991
Dissimilar Identity, Scott Alan Gallery, New York |
1990
China: June 4, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City |
| La
ecologia a traves de la plastica (traveling exhibition), Galeria
Latina, Club del Lago, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
| Sculpture
of the Americas into the Nineties, Art Museum of the Americas,
Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. |
| Azaceta,
Cardillo, and Frigerio, Opus Gallery, Miami |
1989
Earth: Latin Americas Visions (traveling exhibition), Museum
of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York |
| Ceremony
of Memory: New expressions in Spirituality among Contemporary
Hispanic Artists (traveling exhibition), Center for Contemporary
Arts of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 100
Years of Uruguayan Art by Seven Artists, Venezuelan Arts Center,
New York |
| Eighteenth
International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia |
| Ninth
Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway |
| Fourth
International Biennial Print exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan |
| ¡Mira!
Hispanic Art Tour III (traveling exhibition), El Museo del Barrio,
New York |
1988
Contemporary Art from Uruguay, Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow |
| Paper
Visions II: Contemporary Latin American Art, Housatonic Museum
of Art, Bridgeport |
| Twelfth
International Print Biennial, Cracow, Poland |
| Primer
Encuentro Internacional de Grabado, Museo Nacional de Artes
Plasticas, Montevideo |
1986
Second Havana Biennial, Havana |
| Bienal
Latinoamericana de Arte Sobre Papel, Buenos Aires |
| Three
Artists from the Permanent Collection, Islip Art Museum, East
Islip, New York |
1985
Selected Artists from the Eighth British International Print
Biennial, Southampton Art Gallery and Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen,
England |
1984
The Symbology of Transformation: Rimer Cardillo and Mariu, Mason
Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New Brunswick |
1983
World Print Tour, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
| Recent
Editions, Americas Society, New York |
1982
Contemporary Art from Uruguay, Instituto Ibero-Americano, Berlin |
1980
Eighth International Print Biennial, Cracow, Poland |
1976
V Bienale Internazionale Della Grafica, Pallazzo Strozzi, Florence |
1975
Eleventh International Print Biennial, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia |
1974
Bienal Internacional de Obra Grafica y Arte Seriado, Segovia,
Spain |
| Intergrafik
International Exhibition, Berlin |
1973
Xylon VI, International Triennial Exhibition of Woodcuts, Museum
of Geneva, Switzerland |
1969
International Drawing Prix Joan Miro, Barcelona |
| Art
from Uruguay, Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin |
1967
XXX National Fine Arts Exhibition, Montevideo |
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| Public
Collections |
Albion
College, Department of Visual Arts, Albion, Michigan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Art Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas
Bibliotheque National de Paris, Paris
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Museo de Arte Americano, Cuzco, Peru
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas
Museo de Artes Graficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia
Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bogota
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museo del Grabado, Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Montevideo
Museum of Contemporary Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad, Norway
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Prints Cabinet of Berlin, Berlin
Samuel Dorsky Museum, Sate University of New York, New Paltz
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Yugoslavia
Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale
Art Museum of the Americas, O.A.S., Washington, D.C.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
The New York Public Library Collection, New York |
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| Selected
Awards and Fellowships |
2006
Chancellor's Award for Excellence for Scholarship and Creative
Activities, State University of New York
Research Foundation Research and Scholarship Award, State University
of New York |
2002
Award, Premio Figari, Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo |
2000
Multimedia/lnstructional Technology Development Award, State
University of New York, New Paltz |
| Research
and Creative Project Grant, State University of New York, New
Paltz |
1999
Multimedia/Instructional Technology Development Award, State
University of New York, New Paltz |
| Research
and Creative Project Grant, State University of New York, New
Paltz |
1998
Research and Creative Project Grant, State University of New
York, New Paltz |
1998
First Prize, Twelfth San Juan Print Biennial of Latin America
and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena |
1997
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| New
York Foundation for the Arts Research Fellowship |
| Research
and Creative Project Grant, State University of New York, New
Paltz |
1996
Research and Creative Project Grant, State University of New
York, New Paltz |
1993
International Artist-in-Residence Program, Arts International,
Institute of International Education |
1991
New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship |
1990
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship |
1989
New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship |
1988
Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship |
1987
Purchase Prize, Seventeenth International Biennial, Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia |
1986
State Award, Eleventh International Print Biennial, Cracow,
Poland |
1985
New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship |
1969
German Ministry of Culture Research Fellowship |
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| Public
Works |
2008
Some are Absolutely Blue. The Blue Bird Sculpture Park, Hills of the Lagoon, Punta Ballena, Uruguay. |
2007
La stele dell'archeologo, Permanent Installation of an outdoor large marble sculpture at the Centro internazionale di scultura all'aperto, Museo del Parco in Porttofino, Italy |
2006
Cupí de La Loggia, Centro D'Arte La Loggia, Florence
La
stele dell'archeologo, Centro internazionale di scultura
all'aperto, Portofino |
2005
Barca de la crucifixion (from Charrúas y Montes Criollos). Wood, iron, cement, soil, steel, lead. 3.30m. x 2.75m. x 7.30m., Outdoor Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Fine Art, Montevideo, Uruguay. |
2004
Environment and Culture: From the Amazon to the Hudson River Valley. Permanently installed outdoor wall mural of silk-screened porcelain tiles, 55 x17 feet. Humanities Building Excelsior Concourse, State University of New York, New Paltz |
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| Selected
Bibliography |
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The International Exchange Exhibition of Prints (exhibition catalog). The Museum of Contemporary Art at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea. 2008
Schneider, Arnd and Christopher Wright. Contemporary Art and Anthropology: Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2006
Inductions of Space: Rimer Cardillo and Jani Konstantinovski Puntos, Cracow: DA Graf Publishers, 2006, p.9, Essay by Lucy Lippard.
Volumi in equilibrio (permanent collection catalog). Portofino, Italy: Museo del Parco: Centro internazionale di scultura all'aperto, 2005, pp. 52-53. Essay Daniele Crippa.
Myths, Science, Metaphors: Rimer Cardillo and Jani Konstantinovski Puntos (exhibition catalog), Krakow: Jagiellonian Library, 2005, p.10, Essay by Janusz Antos.
Permanent collection catalog: Quarta Edizionen, Portofino, Italy: Museo del Parco: Centro internazionale di scultura all'aperto, Editor Maxi Grafica – Massa e Cozzile (PT), 2004.
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