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Fernando Botero

(Colombian, 1932–2023)

Fernando Botero

Girl with a Bow, 1982

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Biography

Timeline

1932: Born in Medellin, Colombia
1950: Graduated from Medellin University
1952: Studied, San Fernando Academy and the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
1953 - 1955: Studied fresco techniques and art history, Florence, Italy
1955: Returned to Colombia
1960: Took up residence in New York
Won Guggenheim National Prize for Colombia
1967: Visited Italy and Germany; studied work of Dürer in Munich and Nuremberg, Germany
1973: Moved to Paris, France
: Lives and works in Paris, Monte Carlo, Pietrasanta, and New York

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2012: Una celebración, Palacio Bellas Artes de México, Mexico
: Hommage zum 80. Geburtstag, Botero - Gemälde, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2010: Art is deformation, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo)
Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2009: Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
Fernando Botero: The Circus. James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
2008: The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2007 - 2008: Botero: Oeuvres récentes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo)
2007: Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo)
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada (solo)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo)
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY
Fernando Botero, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
: Malerei und Skulptur, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2006: Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Fernando Botero, Athens Concert Hall, Greece (solo)
Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005: Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
2004: The Art Museum, Singapore
2003: The Doge’s Palace and other locations, Venice, Italy
The Gemeente Museum, Aja
The Maillol Museum, Paris, France
2002: Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001: Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
2000: The Museum of Antioquìa, Medellìn, Colombia
1998 - 1999: San Paolo Museum of Art, San Paolo, Brazil
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Monterey Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterey, CA
The Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997: The Modern Art Museum of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
The National Musuum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1996: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea
The Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1994 - 1995: Museo of Art, Takamatsu City, Japan
Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
1994: Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paseo de Recolet, Madrid, Spain
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paseo de Recoletes, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1992 - 1993: Montecarlo Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria
Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1991: Exhibition Palace, Rome, Italy
1989: The Coro Museum of the Arts, Coro, Venezuela
The Contemporary Museum of Art, Caracas, Venezuela
The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico
1987: The Queen Sofia Center for the Arts, Madrid, Spain
1986: The Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas, Venezuela
Municipal Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Museum of Art, Albany, NY
1985: The National Museum, Bogota, Colombia
The Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico
1984: The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
The Everhard Museum, Scranton, PA
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1983: The Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
1981: The Civic Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1979: The d’Ixelles Museum, Brussels, Belgium
The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, TX
1978: Sculpture Museum of the city of Marl, Marl, Germany
1977: The Medellìn Museum of Art, Medellìn, Colombia
1976: The Museum of Comtemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1975: The Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1972: Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Buchholz, Munich, Germany
Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1970: Fernando Botero: Bilder 1962-1969, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; and Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
Fernando Botero, Hanover Gallery, London, UK
: Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969: Fernando Botero, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, NY
Botero: Peintures, pastels, fusains, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1968: Botero, Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid, Spain
Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
1966: Fernando Botero, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany, Galerie Brusberg, Hanover, Germany
Fernando Botero: Recent Works, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1965: Botero: Recent Works, Zora Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964: Cordoba Bienale, Argentina
Fernando Botero: Bosquejos realidades, Galería Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Fernando Botero: Obras recientes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1962: 7 Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota
Botero, Gres Gallery, Chicago, IL
Botero, The Contemporaries, New York, NY
1961: Botero, Galería de Arte El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia
1960: Botero, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1959: Botero: Obras recientes, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Sala Gregorio Vásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1958: Fernando Botero: Oleos, Galería Antonio Souza, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Fernando Botero: Recent Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1957: Pan American Union, Washington, DC
1955: Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
1951: Leo Matiz Gallery, Bogota, Colombia

Public Collections

: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
: Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
: Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
: Gelerie-Verein, Munich, Germany
: The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York
: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: Ho-am Museum, Seoul, South Korea
: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
: Astrup Museum, Oslo, Norway
: Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
: Collezione d’Arte Religiosa Moderna, Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Vatican City, Italy
: Coleccion Fernando Botero, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Medellin, Colombia
: Donacion Fernando Botero, Coleccion Banco de la Republica, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
: Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
: Museo d’Arte Moderna del Vaticano, Rome, Italy
: Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
: Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
: Staatgalerie Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
: Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
: Museo Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
: Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
: Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
: Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
: Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
: Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
: Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: M.H.K. Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
: Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
: Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium

Literature

2008: Castro Flórez, Fernando. Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, El circo. Valencia : Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 2008
2007: Buysschaert, M., Chiappini, R., Malerba, F., Ruzzante, A., (eds.) Botero: works 1994-2007. Milan; NY: Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2007
2006: Ebony, D. Botero : Abu Ghraib. Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2006.
Sillevis, J., Elliott, E., Sullivan, E.J. The Baroque world of Fernando Botero. Alexandria, Va. : Art Services International ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, 2006
2005: Strinati, C., Veltroni, W., Botero : the last 15 years. Roma : De Luca Editori d’Arte, c2005 (catalogue)
2003: Gribaudo, P., Fuentes, C., Botero: women. New York : Rizzoli : Distributed to the U.S. trade by St. Martin’s Press, 2003
2001: Botero: monumental sculpture. New York : Marlborough Gallery, 2001 (catalogue)
2000: Sullivan, E. J., Tasset, J. M. Fernando Botero: monograph & catalogue raisonné : paintings 1975-1990. Lausanne : Acatos, 2000 (catalogue raisonné)
Escallon, Ana Maria (artist interview). BOTERO New Works on Canvas. New York : Rizzoli International, 2000.
1999: Villegas, B., Fumaroli, M., Botero drawings. Bogota : Villegas Editores, 1999
1998: Lambert, J. C., Villegas, B., Botero sculptures. Bogotá : Villegas Editores, 1998
Fernando Botero: drawings and watercolors on canvas. New York : Marlborough, 1998 (catalogue)
1997: Escallón, A. M., Botero: new works on canvas. New York : Rizzoli International Publications, 1997
Aguirre, E. (et al.), Botero : la corrida. adrid : Ministerio de Educación y Cultura : Fundación Central Hispano : Communidad de Madrid, 1997 (catalogue)
1993: Sullivan, E.J., Fernando Botero: drawings and watercolors. New York : Rizzoli, 1993
Gribaudo, P. Botero Affreschi - Chiesa della Misericordia, Pietrasanta. Torino: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1993 (catalogue)
Fernando Botero: drawings on canvas. New York, NY : Marlborough Gallery, 1993 (catalogue)
1992: Cau, J. Botero aux Champs-Elysées “La Corrida aux Grand Palais”. Paris: Mairie de Paris and Didier Imbert Fine Art. Edition of 3, Sculptures et Œuvres sur Papier,” by Pierre Daix, “Sculptures Monumentales,” by Charles Virmaître, 1992 (catalogue)
Sullivan, E.J. Botero: Aquarelles et Dessins. Madrid: Lerner & Lerner, 1992(catalogue)
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Botero: Dessins et Aquarelles. Paris: Editions de la Difference, (nd), 1992 (catalogue)
1991: Pacifico, M., Silvestro S., and Giorgio Van Straten. Botero al Forte Belvedere di Firenze. Florence: Tipolito Press, 1991 (catalogue)
1990: Caballero Bonald, J. M. Botero: the bullfight. New York, N.Y. : Rizzoli, 1990
Gribaudo, P. Botero. Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1990
Soavi, Giorgio. Fernando Botero - Œuvres 1959-1989. Paris: Celiv, 1990 (catalogue)
1986: Sullivan, E. J. Botero, sculpture. New York : Abbeville Press, 1986
1980: Ratcliff, C. Fernando Botero: recent work. November 7 -December 2, 1980. Marlborough Gallery, New York: the Gallery, 1980 (catalogue)
1979: Jaffee McCabe, C. Fernando Botero: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979 (catalogue)
1975: Fernando Botero. New York, Marlborough Gallery, 1975 (catalogue)
1973: Fernando Botero.April-maggio. Roma : Marlborough galleria d'arte, 1973 (catalogue)

Fernando Botero

(Colombian, 1932–2023)

Fernando Botero

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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