Arturo Herrera

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Auteur

Arturo Herrera (b. 1959, Caracas, Venezeula) received a BFA from the University of Tulsa and MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work is currently on view at SITE SANTA FE in Arturo Herrera: You are here (March-May 2024). Recent exhibitions include solo shows Between at The Contemporary Dayton, OH (2023) and Constructed Collage at Ruby City, San Antonio, TX (2022-23); and group shows Monochrome Multitudes at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (2022-23) and Mirror at Feld-Haus Projects, Berlin (2022). Herrera’s long-term, site-specific wall installations can be seen at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Bloomberg European Headquarters, London; and Tate Modern, London. His work is housed in public collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Tate Modern, London. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, ArtPace San Antonio, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and DAAD. Herrera lives and works in Berlin.

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The first monograph on Venezuelan multimedia artist Arturo Herrera in nearly twenty years, this comprehensive book takes a deep look at his diverse body of work.

Most known for collage, felt sculpture, and wall painting, Herrera references the complex legacy of abstraction using modernist visual languages. Often employing found material and sourced elements, Herrera’s work incorporates discrete iconography and familiar imagery to provoke a multiplicity of references and readings. As his practice has evolved, the artist has become renowned for his colorful abstract mixed-media pieces that adapt and renew techniques of fragmentation and layering found in his earlier collage-based work.