- About the Work
- About the Artist
- Interview
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Excerpt from Arturo Herrera’s two-channel digital projection Les Noces, 2007. Installation view, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Excerpt from Arturo Herrera’s two-channel digital projection Les Noces, 2007. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
About the Artist
Arturo Herrera (Venezuelan, born 1959) received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions of Herrera’s work include those held at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2007), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), Whitney Museum of American Art (2001), UCLA Hammer Museum (2001), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2000), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1998), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1995). Selected group exhibitions include Comic Abstraction (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007), The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2003), Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2003), Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), The Americans (Barbican Art Centre, London, 2001), and Painting at the Edge of the World (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2001). Selected awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2005), DAAD Fellowship (2003), Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (1998), and an ArtPace Fellowship (1998). The artist lives in Berlin.