Luis Camnitzer

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C U R R E N T

Now Here is als Nowhere: Part II - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA - January 26 to May 5, 2013  

Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Document: Selections from Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection - Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York City - January 23 to March 29, 2013

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Solo Exhibitions

2012

"Luis Camnitzer", Alexander Gray Associates, New York City

"Luis Camnitzer", Museo de Arte del Ponce, Puerto Rico

"Luis Camnitzer", Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

"Luis Camnitzer", Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX

2011

"Luis Camnitzer", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin

"Luis Camnitzer", Museo del Barrio, New York

2010

"Modelos para Armar", Pensar Latinoamérica desde la Colección MUSAC

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, León, Spain

"Objetos para un rato de inercia", Galería Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain

"Memorial", Alexander Gray Associates, New York NY

"Luis Camnitzer", Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich, Switzerland

„Last Words“, Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf

2008

"Last Words", Alexander Gray Associates, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

"Luis Camnitzer", Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY

2007

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

2006

Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

2005

Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004

Installation in White Box, New York, NY

Elevator installation, Art in General, New York, NY

„Agent Orange“, Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf, Germany

2003

Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2002

Galerie Basta (with Alfredo Jaar), Hamburg, Germany

2001

Anthony Giordano Gallery, Islip Museum at Dowling College, Oakdale, NY

The Kitchen, New York, NY

2000

The Tire Shop, Raleigh, NC

Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, TX

Arte y Ensenanza: La etica del poder, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain

1997

"Patentanmeldung", Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany

1996

"Tratado del Paisaje", Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

1995

City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC

Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY

"AMANAPLANACANALAPANAMA", Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

"Zanoobia", Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany

1994

Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

Galería Tovar y Tovar, Bogotá, Colombia

1993

Subterraneo Municipal, Montevideo, Uruguay

Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

1992

I.C.I., Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Retrospective Exhibition 1966—1990", Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1991

Parque Lussich (with Mario Sagradini), Punta del Este, Uruguay

"Retrospective Exhibition 1966—1990", Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

Galleria Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy

Biennial of Havana, Cuba

M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

1990

Carla Stellweg Gallery (with David Lamelas), New York, NY

1989

Museo Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia

1988

Centro Municipal Miraflores, Lima, Peru

Museo Histórico, Santa Clara, Cuba

Biennale, Pavillion of Uruguay, Venice, Italy

"Messages to the Public", Time Square Spectacolor lightboard, Public Art Fund, New York, NY

1987

Fototeca, Havana, Cuba

Fundación San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

Artworks, Berlin, MD

1986

Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay

Massachusets College of Art, Boston, MA

The Graphic Eye Gallery, Port Washington, NY

Artworks, Berlin, MD

1985

Permanent Installation, Horton Memorial Hospital, Middletown, NY

1984

Isis Gallery, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN

Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

"From the Uruguayan Torture Series", The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1983

"Gaderra Latinoamericana", Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba

Museo de Gráfica y Dibujo Latinoamericano, Roldanillo, Colombia

1982

Galería Partes, Medellín, Colombia

Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia

1980

Cinemateca, Montevideo, Uruguay (1980—1981)

Galerie 31, Strasburg, France

Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

1979

Galería La Oficina, Medellín, Colombia

Cámara de Comercio, Medellín, Colombia

Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia

1978

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

C-Space Gallery, New York, NY

Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

1977

Gallery for New Concepts, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Commune di Adro, Brescia, Italy

Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia

Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia

1976

Galleria Ariete Grafica, Milan, Italy

Galerie Space, Wiesbaden, Germany

Villa Schifanoia, Florence, Italy

Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

1975

Stadt Bibliothek, Mainz, Germany

1974

Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

1973

Galleria Conz, Venice, Italy

Galería Colibrí, San Juan de Puerto Rico

Galleria Banco, Brescia, Italy

1972

Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

Libreria Einaudi, Milan, Italy

Printshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1971

C.L.I.P. Documents, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1970

Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

1969

Mail Exhibition, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Associated American Artists, New York, NY

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

1967

Mail Exhibition, New York Graphic Workshop, New York, NY

1966

Amigos del Arte, Montevideo, Uruguay

Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1964

Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY

1963

Semanario Marcha, Montevideo, Uruguay

Galería Sudamericana, New York, NY

1962

Galería Galatea, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1960

Centro de Artes y Letras, Montevideo, Uruguay (1960–1961)

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Group Exhibitions

2012

"Amateurism", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

"From the Age of the Poets", Aanant & Zoo, Berlin

"Landart Biennal Mongolia 2012", Mongolia

"When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling", Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

2011

"barely there. Part II", MOCA, Detroit, MI

"September 11", P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, NY

"Rituals of the Art World", LUDLOW 38, New York, NY

"barely there. Part I", MOCA, Detroit, MI

"An Exchange with Sol Le Witt", MASS MoCA, North Adams

2010

"On Line: Drawing Though the Twentieth Century", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"Les vigiles, les menteurs, les reveurs - Erudition concrete 3 Frac", Ile-de-France, Paris, France

"Human", TMAMAC, Nice, France

"Substitute Teacher", Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA

"MODEL KITS", MUSAC, Leon, France

objetos para un rato de inercia Elba Benitez Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2009

"Tainted Love", curated by Steven Lam, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY

"Everything Has a Name, or the Potential to be Named", Gasworks, London, UK

"X Havana Biennial Pinta", The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Fair, New York, NY

"1968. Die Große Unschuld", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

"THE HUMAN STAIN", CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

"BREMERHAVEN - NEW YORK", Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany

"BREMERHAVEN - NEW YORK", Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

"Power Structure", Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY

"Perverted by Theater", Apexart, New York, NY

"Face to Face", Daros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

"SEE History 2008", Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

"Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials", Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

42 Salón Nacional de Arte, Cali, Columbia

"It is Not Neutral", Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain

"True Romance", Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

2007

"Non-Declarative Art", The Drawing Center, New York, NY

"6. Biennale Porto Alegre 2007", Biennale Porto Alegre, Brasil

"La Prescencia", molaa, Long Beach, NY

"puntos de vista", Museum Bochum, Germany

"The Disappeared", El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

2006

"Eleanore Mikus", The Drawing Center, New York, NY

"The Disappeared", North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND

"MEDIUM FOTOGRAFIE", Galerie Stampa, Basel, Swiss

Certain Encounters, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA

Living History, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

Bienal de Pontevedra, Spain

2005

"50 Years Documenta", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

"September 11. 1973", Orchard, New York, NY

"Inverting the Map", Tate Liverpool, GB

"PART ONE", Orchard, New York, NY

2004

"Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Centro Cultural Recoleta, (with León Ferrari and Francois Bucher), Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Liverpool Biennial of International Contemporary Art", Liverpool United Kingdom

2003

"M_ars", Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria

Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

2002

"Documenta 11", Kassel, Germany

"Dialoge", Galerie Basta, Hamburg, Germany

Rayuela/Hopscotch, University of Scranton, PA

2001

"La estetyka del sueño", Palacio Velázquez, Madrid, Spain

"Shopping", Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

"El final del eclipse", Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain

2000

"Versiones del Sur: 5 propuestas en torno al arte en Latinoamérica", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

"Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum, New York, NY

"Worthless", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

"Vivencias / Lebenserfahrung / life experience", Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

1999

"TRACE": Liverpool Biennial of International Contemporary Art, Liverpool, United Kingdom

"Millenium Manhole Project for Con Edison", Municipal Arts Society, New York, NY

1998

"Mouse: An American Icon", The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

"Biennial of Puerto Rico", Puerto Rico

1997

"Biennial of Kwangju", Korea

"Bienal do Mercosulr", Porto Alegre, Brazil

1996

"Face à l´histoire", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

"Internacional Bienal de Sao Paulo", São Paulo, Brazil

1995

"Intervenciones en el espacio", Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

"Point counter Point: Two views of 20th Century Latin American Art", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

"Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965—1975", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1994

"Ante América", Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, KS

Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

"Reclaiming History", Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

"Pequeño Formato Latinoamericano", Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"Working with Tradition: The Academic Artist", New York State Museum, Albany, NY

1993

"Working with Tradition: The Academic Artist", Burchfield Art Center, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

"Home Away from Home", State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

"Bienal Poesía Visual/Experimental", Mexico City, Mexico

"Pa´lante: Political Works from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio", Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

"Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

1993

"The Return of the Exquisite Corpse", The Drawing Center, New York, NY

"L´Autre A Montevideo", Museo de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay

"Lateinamerikanische Kunst des XX Jahrhundert", Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

"Ante América", Queens Museum, New York, NY

Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA

Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY

1992

"500 años de represión", Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Amériques Latines, Art Contemporain", Hôtel des Arts, Foundation Nationale dea Arts, Paris

"Uncommon Ground", College Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

"X Mostra da Gravura (special guest)", Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil

"Encounters/Displacements: Camnitzer, Jaar, Meireles", Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX

"Disorientations", 494 Gallery, New York, NY

"Ver América (The Bride of the Sun)", Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

"Disorient", Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

"Américas", Monastery of Santa Clara, Moguer, Spain

"Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century", Estación Plaza de Armas, Seville, Spain

"Ante América", Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia

1991

"El paisaje en el arte uruguayo", Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay

"Biennial", Havana, Cuba

"The Hybrid State", Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY

"Artists of Conscience", The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

"Art of Resistence", Galería El Bohío, New York, NY

"Denonciation", Usine Lucien Fromage Darnetal, Rouen, France

"El paisaje en el arte uruguayo", Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Museo de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo, Uruguay

1990

"Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY

"Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions", Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY

"China, June 4", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

"The Power of Words: An Aspect of Recent Documentary Photography", PPOW Gallery, NY

1989

"Out of Bounds: Contemporary Long Island Photographers", Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY

"Different War", Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

1988

"Estampes et livres d’artistes du XXe siecle: Enrichissiments du Cabinet des Estampes 1978-1986", Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

"Committed to Print", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"The Debt", Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY

"The Rosenberg Era, Travelling Exhibition (1988—1991) Group Material: Project Democracy (Politics and Elections)", Dia Foundation, New York, NY

"Project Democracy (Culture and Participation)", Dia Foundation, New York, NY

"The Jewish Museum Collects", Jewish Museum, New York, NY

"The Latin American Spirit", The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

"Affinities (with Alfredo Jaar, Mel Edwards, Willie Birch, Carmen Lomas and Jenny Lee)", Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY

1987

"Latin American Artists in New York since 1970", University of Texas, Austin, TX

"Drawings as Drawings", North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

1986

"Biennial of the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art", New York, NY

"Imagining Antarctica", Museum of Linz, Austria S mithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

"Biennial of Havana", Havana, Cuba

"Biennial of Cali", Cali, Colombia

"Biennial of Puerto Rico", Puerto Rico

1985

"Aquí", Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

"Disinformation", The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

"The Writing on the Wall", Islip Museum, East Islip, NY

1984

"The Verbally Charged Image", Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

"Biennial of Havana", Havana, Cuba

"Latin American Visual Thinking", Art Awareness Gallery, Lexington, NY

1983

"Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts", Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico

"Intergrafik", Berlin, Germany (1983—1986)

"World Print IV", San Francisco, CA

1982

"Documenta Urbana", Kassel, Germany

1981

"Biennial of Art", Medellín, Colombia

"Further Furniture", Marian Goodman Gallery, NewYork, NY

"CAPS", The State Museum, Albany, NY

"Biennial of Cali", Colombia

"Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts", Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1980

"Buch Objekte", University of Freiburg, Germany

"Third-World Biennial of Graphic Art", Baghdad, Iraq

"Print Biennial of Biella", Biella, Italy

1979

"Group Show with a Smile", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

"International Drawing Exhibition", Christ Church, New Zealand

"British International Print Biennial", Bradford, United Kingdom

"International Biennial of Prints", Tokyo, Japan

1978

"Objects", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

"Biennial of Drawings", Rijeka, Yugoslavia

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

"Group June", Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1977

"Biennial of Maracaibo", Venezuela

Galleria Zona, Florence, Italy

Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

"Group June", Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1976

"Norwegian International Print Biennial" (1976—1982)

"Printmaking: New Forms", Whitney Museum, New York, NY

"British International Print Biennial", Bradford, United Kingdom

Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, NY

"Biennial of Drawings", Rijeka, Yugoslavia

"Biennial of Cali", Colombia

1975

Yeshiva University, New York, NY

"Last International Exhibition of Mail Art", Galería Arte Nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Biennial of Ljubljana", Yugoslavia

1974

"British International Print Biennial", Bradford, United Kingdom

"Biennial of Drawings", Rijeka, Yugoslavia

"Print Biennial", Segovia, Spain

"Biennial of Cali", Colombia

"Biennial of Tokyo", Japan

1973

"Etching, Etc.", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"Latin American Prints", from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

"Books by Artists", Tyler College, Philadelphia, PA

"Biennial of Ljubljana", Yugoslavia

1972

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

"Biennial of Cali", Colombia

1971

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

1970

"Biennial of Krakow", Poland

"Information", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

"Biennial of Cali", Colombia

"Biennial of Puerto Rico", Puerto Rico

"Galería Colibrí", San Juan, Puerto Rico

1969

"Printmaking in America", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

"Language Show", Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

Museum of Seattle, WA

Museum of Vancouver, Canada

1968

"Art in Editions: New Approaches", Loeb Center, New York University, New York, NY

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.

"Biennial of Chile", Chile

1967

"Toward f.a.n.d.s.o." (with Liliana Porter and José Guillermo Castillo), Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, NY

Loeb Center, New York University, New York, NY

Galerie Latour, Geneve, Switzerland

1965

"Contemporary Erotica", Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY

"Artists from Monocle Magazine", Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY

"Biennial of Ljubljana", Yugoslavia

"Biennial of Chile", Chile

1964

"Magnet", Galería Bonino, New York, NY

"100 Contemporary Prints", Jewish Museum, New York, NY

1963

"Biennial of Ljubljana", Yugoslavia

"Biennial of Chile", Chile

1962

"Biennial of Tokyo", Japan

1958

"Eighth Centenial Exhibition", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

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Selected Bibliography

Busta, Caroline: “Louis Camnitzer Alexander Gray Associates”, Artforum, 2008

Cotter, Holland: “Luis Camnitzer”, The New York Times, April 11 2008

Harrison, Helen A: “Divided by Beliefs, but United in Abstraction”, The New York Times, March 18 2001

Kiel, Kunsthalle Zu: “Luis Camnitzer”, Frieze, April 2004

McEvilley, Thomas: “Luis Camnitzer-Carla Stellweg Gallery”, Artforum, January 1996

Mosquera, Gerardo: “New Art of Cuba”, Artforum, December 1994

Princenthal, Nany: “Luis Camnitzer at El Museuo del Barrio and Carla Stellweg”, Art in America, February 1996

Rattemeyer, Christian: “VIII Bienal de havana: various venues”, Artfoum, February 2004  

Raynor, Vivien: “ART; At the Lehman, Works of War and Torture, Politics and Wit”, The New York Times, March 3 1991

Rexer, Lyle: “Roundtable: New York Graphics Workshop”, Art Papers, Sept-Oct 2008

Rifkin, Adrian: "‘Face A L’Histoire:’ Centre Pompidou”, Artforum, April 1997

Valdez, Sarah: “Luis Camnitzer at Alexander Gray”, Art in America, June-July 2008

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Luis Camnitzer (*1937 in Luebeck) grew up in Uruguay where he studied sculpture, architecture and printmaking at the Universidad de la República (1953-1962). Since 1964 he lives and works as an artist, educator, critic and art theorist in New York.