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Wifredo Lam
(
Cuban
, 1902–1982)
Wifredo Lam
Untitled,
1972
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Wifredo Lam
Untitled ,
1973
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1902
Born in La Sagua La Grande, Villa la Clara, Cuba
1916
Attended Escuela de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
1920 - 1923
Attended the Acadamia San Atejandra, Havana, Cuba
Moved to Madrid, Spain
1924 - 1928
Free Academy, Madrid, Spain
1938
Moved to Paris, France, and became associated with the Surrealists
1939
Worked with Picasso, France
1941
Moved back to Cuba
1951
Received First Prize at the Salone Nacionale in Havana, Cuba
1953
Received the Gold Medal for foreign painters in Premlo Lissone, Rome, Italy
1958
named member of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1964
Awarded the Guggenheim International Award, New York, NY
1965
Received the Premio Marzotto in Milan, Italy
1982
Died in Paris, France
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Exhibitions
2012
Fire Tongues - Galerie Gmurzynska - St. Moritz, St. Moritz
Do You Know My Age? - Wissen Sie Mein Alter? - Factory-Art - Berlin, Berlin
L'Art en Guerre, France 1938-1947 - De Picasso a Dubuffet - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
The Supersurrealism - Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö
20th Century Masters - Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg
2011
Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso - Nous nous sommes trouvés - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly? - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2010
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Surrealism and the Museum of Dreams - Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
2009
Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Picasso, Matisse, Dubuffet, Bacon... - Les modernes s’exposent au musée des Beaux-Arts - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon
Echo: Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks - Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Wifredo Lam - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL (solo)
Wilfredo Lam - Molaa Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (solo)
Wifredo Lam in North America - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2007
Wifredo Lam in North America - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2004
Wilfredo Lam - Galerie Boulakia, Paris (solo)
1994 - 1995
Wifredo Lam - Drawings: Interlude Marseille - Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
1992
Wifredo Lam - Gana Art Center , Seoul (solo)
1988
Wifredo Lam - K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf (solo)
1987
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1982
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1979
Artcurial, Paris, France (solo)
1972
Galerie Tronche, Paris, France (solo)
1971
Galerie Gimpel und Hanover, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1970
Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, Italy (solo)
Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY (solo)
1969
Galleria Bergarnini, Milan, Italy (solo)
1968
Galerie Villand et Galanis, Paris, France (solo)
1967
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1966
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Musee d'Art Moderne de Ia Ville, Paris, France
1965
Museo de Arte Moderna, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Galerie Anderson, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
1964
Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy (solo)
1963
Galerie Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Galeria de la flabana, Havana, Cuba (solo)
1962
Salone Annunciata, Milan, Italy (solo)
1961
Galerie La Cour d'Ingres, Paris, France (solo)
Galleria del Canale, Venice, Italy (solo)
Galleria del Obelisco, Rome, Italy (solo)
Albert Loeb Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1959
Galleria Grattacielo, Milan, Italy (solo)
1957
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Marcaibo, Venezuela (solo)
Galerie Cahiers d'Art, Paris, France (solo)
1955
Galerie Colibri, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Museo de Deltas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
1953
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
1952
Institute of contemporary Arts, London, UK (solo)
1951
Ministry of Education, Havana, Cuba (solo)
1950
Lam: Obras Recientes 1950, Parque Central, Havana, Cuba (solo)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1948
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1946
The Cuban Painter Wifredo Lam, The London Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Centre d'Art, Port-an-Prince, Haiti (solo)
1945
Wifredo Lam, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France (solo)
1944 - 1945
Lam Paintings, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1942
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1939
Wifredo Lam Peintures, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France (solo)
Drawings by Picasso and Gouaches by Wifredo Lam, Perls Gallery, New York, NY
1928
GalerieVilches, Madrid, Spain (solo)
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Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Medeco, Havana, Cuba
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Denmark
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France
Museum Boyrnans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, UK
