AMALIA NIETO
Born in Uruguay in 1910. In 1926,
Nieto began her art studies at the Circulo de Bellas Artes with Domingo Bazzurro and at age nineteen left Montevideo for Paris, where she was to live for the next three years. Nieto attended the Academy of the Grand Chaumière, took art history courses at the Sorbonne and studied with the artist André Lhote. Returning to Uruguay, Nieto had her first solo exhibition, completed her bacalaurate and in 1934 joined Torres-García's Asociación de Arte Constructivo, acting as its secretary. In 1937, Nieto married the famous writer, Felisberto Hernández. Through the 1930s she took classes and exhibited with other AAC artists into the 1940s. In 1955, Nieto returned to Paris and studied engraving with J. Friedlander and mosaic work with Gino Sevirini. Throughout the ensuing years, Nieto participated in numerous bienals, museum and gallery exhibitions and received many awards. Her 1995 Retrospective exhibition featured 99 works and included her latest pieces. Nieto continues to paint in her Montevideo studio.
One Person Shows:
| 1995 |  | Retrospectiva, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
| 1991 | | Galería Montevideo
| 1989 | | Embassy of Uruguay, Buenos Aires
| 1988 | | Cátedra Alicia Goyena
Sala Vaz Ferreira
| 1984 | | Inter-American Development Bank
| 1978 | | Galería Bruzzone, Montevideo
| 1975 | | Galería Gattás, Punte del Este
| 1972 | | Galería Brela, Montevideo
| 1970 | | Galería Losada, Montevideo
| 1964- | | Salón de artes y letras El País, Montevideo
| 1963 | | Galería de Arte Milano, Milan, Italy
Jockey Club de Montevideo
Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de Salto, Uruguay
| 1960 | | Salón nacional de bellas artes, Montevideo
| 1959 | | Sociedad Cultural Amigos del Arte, Montevideo (and 1958, 57, 54, 53)
| 1958 | | Salón panamericano de arte de Rió Grande do Sul, Brazil
| 1946 | | Galería Arte Bella, Montevideo (and 1960, 1959)
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Group Shows: (partial listing)
| 1998 | | The School of the South, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
La Escuela del Sur - El Taller Torres-García, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, Calif. | |
| 1997 | | La Escuela del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
El Taller Torres-García, Museo Central de Costa Rica, San Juan
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| 1996 | | Constructive Universalism, Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
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| 1993- | | El Taller Torres-García: The School of the South: Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid;
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| 1991 | | Archer M. Huntington Museum, Austin, Texas; The Bronx Museum, New York;
The Monterrey Museum and the Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico.
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| 1991 | | Circle and Square, Geometric Abstraction & Constructivism, Kouros Gallery, N.Y.
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| 1988 | | XXXIV Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo
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| 1980 | | Concurso de Dibujo del Banco República, Montevideo
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona (and 1978)
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| 1976 | | Galería Karlen Gugelmeier, Montevideo
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| 1969 | | Grand Prize for Sculpture, XXXIII Salón Nacional, Montevideo
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| 1968 | | XXXII Salón Nacional, Montevideo
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| 1967 | | Grand Prize for Painting, XXXI Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo
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| 1963 | | Bienale de San Marino y Spoletto, Italy
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| 1960 | | Muestra Internacional de Punte del Este, Uruguay
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| 1957 | | IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
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| 1953 | | Delegación del Uruguay, II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
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| 1952 | | Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo
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| 1946 | | IX Salón Nacional de Dibujo y Grabado, Montevideo
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| 1944 | | Exhibition of Uruguayan art, Galería Comte, Buenos Aires
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| 1941 | | Bronze medal, V Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo
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| 1939 | | II Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo
Exhibitions of the Asociación de Arte Constructivo, Montevideo | |
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