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CÉSAR PATERNOSTO
American, born in La Plata, Argentina, 1931. Has lived and worked in New York since 1967.

ONE PERSON SHOWS:
2001:White/Red, Art in General and Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
1999:Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires
1997: Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1995:Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1993:Exit Art, The First World Gallery, New York
Galería Durban/César Segnini, Caracas, Venezuela
1989:"Formas Simbólicas Andinas", Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1987:Retrospective: Fundación San Telmo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1986:"Works on Paper, 1961-1986", Foro de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City;
travels: Rayo Museum and Diners Gallery, Colombia
1984:Mary-Anne Martin Fine Arts, New York
Galería del Retiro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1982:Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981:"Paintings, 1969-1980", Americas Society, New York
1979:Sandiego Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1978-77:Artemúltiple Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1976-73:Galerie Denise René, New York
1974:Galerie Denise René, Paris
1972:Galerie Denise René, Paris and Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1971:Carmen Waugh Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1970-68:AM Sachs Gallery, New York
1966:Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1965:Center for Freedom of Culture, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1964:Lirlay Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1962:Galería Rubbers, Buenos Aires, Argentina

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2001: Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux Arts,
Brussels, Belgium and IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2000: The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture
1982-2000 curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo. EXIT Art
Gallery, New York. Square Roots, curated by Ladd Spiegel, essay Jennifer
Liese, Cecilia de Torres, New York.
1999: Art construit art cinetique d'Amerique Latine, Galerie Denise Rene, Paris.
Peinteures et Sculptures d'Amerique Latine, Chefs d'oeuvre du
XX Siecle, Coleccion del Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas,
Biarritz Festival, France. Argentina Siglo XX, curators Teresa Anchorena,
Raoul Santana, others, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998-99 Next to Nothing-Minimalist Works from the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery, The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1998:"North and South Connected: An Abstraction of The Americas, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., N. Y.
1997-6:"Argentinien: Ursprünge und Erbe", Museums: Giessen, Erfurt & Berlin, Germany
1995:"65 Years of Constructivist Wood", Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
1992: National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum Ludwig, Cologne,
Germany and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991:"The School of the South, El Taller Torres-García and its Legacy", MuseoReina Sofia,
Madrid; travels: Huntington Hartford Museum, Austin, Texas; Tamayo Museum,
Mexico City; Museum of Monterey, Mexico; the Bronx Museum, New York.
"America, Bride of the Sun", Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp
1990:"The Decade Show", Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1989:III Biennial, Havana, Cuba
1988:"The Latin American Spirit, Art & Artists in the United States, 1920-1970", The Bronx
Museum, New York
1987:"Fifty Years of Collecting, An Anniversary Selection, Paintings since World War II",
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
"Latin American Artists in New York Since 1970", Archer Huntington Museum, Austin, Tx.
"Abstract Visions", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
1986:I Bienal, Havana, Cuba
1981:"Evolution de l'Art Abstrait Constructif, 1920-1980", Gal. Denise René, Paris
1977:"Lines of Vision: Recent Latin American Drawings", Americas Society, N.Y.
1976:"Mono + Bichromie", Galerie Denise René, Paris
Group Show, Gimpel & Hanover Gallery, Zurich
1975:7th Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
1974:"Cruz-Diez, Le Parc, Paternosto, Simon, Soto", Galería Aele, Madri.
1973:"Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn", U. of Mass., Amherst, Mass.
"Program-Accident-System", City Art Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany
1971:I American Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cali, Colombia
1970:"Twelve Artists from Latin America", Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
II Coltejer Biennial, Medellin, Colombia
1968:"Beyond Geometry", Americas Society, New York
1967:"The 1960's", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966:III Biennial of American Art, Cordoba, Argentina
Di Tella Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1965:"Latin American Art since Independence", Yale University, New Haven, C.T.

COLLECTIONS:
The Ford Foundation, New York;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Archer M. Huntington Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
Window South Collection, Palo Alto, California.
ARCO Fine Art Collection, Los Angeles, California.
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Etzold Collection, Museum Abtiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
Instituto Cervantes, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
Denise René, Paris.
Kasahara Collection, Osaka, Japan.
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, La Plata, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Fundación Soto, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela.
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.
Museo del Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:
2001: Artist in Residence, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
1991:Recipient of Rockefeller Foundation invitation of Residency at the Study and Conference
Center in Bellagio, Italy.
1981:Appointed Visiting Scholar at New York University, at the request of the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
1972:Awarded Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Painting.
1966:Awarded First Prize, III Biennial of American Art, Cordoba, Argentina.
Jury: Alfred H. Barr, Arnold Bode, Sam Hunter, Aldo Pellegrini, Carlos Villanueva

AUTHOR:
2001: WHITE/RED: César Paternosto, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York
Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels and IVAM, Valencia
1998:North and South Connected: An Abstraction of The Americas, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.
1996:The Stone and the Thread, Andean Roots of Abstract Art, University of Texas Press
1989:Piedra Abstracta,La escultura Inca, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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