Barcelona based multimedia artist José Antonio Hernández-Díez studied at el Centro de Formación Cinematográfica de Caracas. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented internationally in Barcelona, Madrid, Caracas, Glasgow, Sao Paulo, Santa Fe, and New York. His work has been exhibited at the 50th Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy, le Palais de Tokio, Paris, France, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, the Witte de With Contemporary Art Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, la Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, the Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Miami, FL, and la Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela.
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1964
Lives and work in Barcelona, Spain
EDUCATION
1984-86
Centro de Formación Cinematográfica de Caracas, Venezuela
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
2018 (with Jorge Pedro Núñez), KaBe Contemporary, Miami, Fl
2009
Petare, KABE Contemporary, Miami, FL
2008
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2007
Galeria Estrany – De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain
2005
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
2004
Remixes, Galería Antony Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003
AD HOC, Vigo, Spain
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
INOVA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2001
Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico DF, Mexico
2000
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1999
Galería Antony Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Galería Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
1996
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela
1995
Galería Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
1991
San Guinefort y otras devociones, Sala RG, Caracas, Venezuela
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Impoliticos, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC), Montevideo, Uruguay
The Games: Inspiring Images, Connaught Brown, London, England
2011
Unresolved Circumstances: Video Art from Latin America, MOLAA/Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2010
Atopia: Art & the City in the 21st Century, CCCB/ Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Read Between the Lines, Centre d’art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Risk Zones, The Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009
Dialogue: L’empathie des Parties - Afinitats Electives, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain du Languedoc-Roussillon/CRAC a Sete, Sete, France
Los Impoliticos, PAN/Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italy
Inventories, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Risk Zones, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Madrid
Elective Affinities, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida
Interludes, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Private Passions, Public Visions, MARCO/Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo,
Vigo, Spain
2007
Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanais Cisneros Collection, CIFO, Miami, FL
La vida privada, Colleccion Josep Civit, Centro e Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
Cuestion xeracional, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Coleccion Mercantil, Americas Society, New York, NY
Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
Fashion Accidentally, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan
2006
IKF Latin American Art Auction, CIFO, Miami, FL
Natures Silencioses, Fundacion Ordonez-Falcon de fotografia, Centre d'Art la Panera, LLeida, Spain
Galeria Estrany – De La Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2005
Jump Cuts: Venezuelan Contemporary Art, Coleccion Mercantil, Americas Society, New York, NY
2003
The Structure of Survival, 50th Venice Bienale, curated by Carlos Basualdo
Ninos, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
2002
Opening exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
2001
Ultra Baroque, aspects of Post Latin American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY
Arte all' Arte'01 – 6ª Edición, Arte Continua Associazione Culturale, San Gimignano, Italy
Squatters, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Squatters, Witte de With Contemporary Art Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Overexcited Body, Art and Sport in Contemporary Society,
Geneva, Switzerland
Da Adversidade Vivemos, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Paris, France
Megafino, Miami Beach, Convention Center, Miami, FL
Ultra Baroque, Aspects of Post Latin American Art, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
2000
The Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Eztetyka del Sueño, MNCARS Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
1999
A vueltas con los sentidos, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
The Garden of the Forking Paths, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, travelling to Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark; Edvsvik Konst & Kultur, Solothurn, Switzerland; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
1998
Pasajes de la Colección en Santa Fe y Granada, Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "La Caixa", Palacio de los Duques de Gandia, Granada, Spain
The Garden of the Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Amnesia, Track 16 Gallery and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Spectacular Optical, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1997
inSITE97, Tijuana, Mexico; San Diego, CA
Así está la cosa, Sala de Exposiciones de Televisa, México City, México
Colección La Caixa, La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Arte Latinoamericano Actual, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1996
Defining the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA), Miami, FL
Universallis, XXIII Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Camargo Vilaça Bis, Galería Camargo Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sin Fronteras, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Novas Aquisicoes-Coleçao Gilberto Chateaubriand, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1995
1st Kwangju International Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
John Currin, Kate Buckhardt, Jose Antonio Hernández-Díez, Tony Ousler, Lorna Simpson, Sue Williams, Galleria Galliani, Génova, Italy
Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
1993
CCS 10/Arte Venezolano Actual, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenze, XLV Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Final Frontier, New Museum, New York, NY
Nuevas Adquisiciones 1991-1992, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caraca, Venezuela
1992
Ante América, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Queens Museum, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
I Biennal de Barro de América, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Sexta Edición Premio Eugenio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
1991
Venezuela/Nuevas Cartografias y Cosmogonias, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas
III Biennal Nacional de Arte Guayana, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
El Espíritu de los Tiempos, Galería Los Espacios Cálidos, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Video-escultura ’91, Sala RG, Caracas
1990
Los 80: Panorama de las Artes Visuales en Venezuela, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
III Biennal de Video Arte, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
1989
I Reseña de Arte en Vídeo, Sala RG, Caracas, Venezuela
Vídeo Instalaciones, Galería Sotavento, Caracas, Venezuela
1988
IX Festival Internacional de Super 8 y Vídeo, Brussels, Belgium
I Biennal Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Modalidades de Expresiones Libres y Fotografía, Galería de Arte Nacional y Galería Los Espacios Cálidos, Caracas, Venezuela
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