Mario Carreño Morales
| Mario Carreño y Morales | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May, 24, 1913 Havana, Cuba |
| Died |
December 20, 1999 Santiago de Chile, Chile |
Mario Carreño y Morales (May, 24, 1913 in Havana, Cuba – December 20, 1999 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) was a Cuban painter.
He studied painting at the Academia de San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba from 1925 until 1926. In 1934, he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain. In 1937 he was a student at the Ecole des Arts appliqués, Paris, France and that same year, at the Académie Julian, Paris, France. Among his teachers was Jaime Colson.
Solo exhibitions
- 1930 – "Mario Carreño", Salón de Merás y Rico, Havana, Cuba
- 1947 – "Carreño: Recent Paintings", Perls Galleries, New York City
- 1978 – "Mario Carreño. Pinturas", Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
- 2000 – "Exposición en Homenaje a Mario Carreño", Galería de Arte Patricia Ready, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Group exhibitions
- 1932 – "Exposición Única de Pintores y Escultores Cubanos", Lyceum, Havana, Cuba
- 1943 – "The Latin American Collection", Museum of Modern Art, New York City
- 1944 – " Exhibition of Modern Cuban Painters, March 17,1944, Museum of Modern Art,MoMA, New York City
- 1951 – I São Paulo Art Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- 1952 – XXVI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Awards
- 1956 – Guggenheim International Award, New York City
- 1982 – National Prize of Art of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- 1987 – Cintas Foundation Fellowship, New York City
Collections
Many of his pieces are in the permanent collections of:
- Carrol Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
- Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida
- Colección D.O.P. by Fundacion D.O.P., Paris
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile,
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba
- Museum of Modern Art, New York City
- International Business Machine, New York City
References
- Mario Carreño: Selected Works (1936-1957), by Jesús Fernández Torna. ISBN 978-0-615-58712-7
- Vicente Báez, Virilio Pinera, Calvert Casey, and Anton Arrufat, Editors; Pintores Cubanos, Editors; Ediciones Revolucion, Havana, Cuba 1962 (Spanish)
- Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutiérrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzón, Dannys Montes de Oca; Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century; (California/International Arts Foundation 2001); ISBN 978-0-917571-11-4
- Jose Viegas; Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo XX; (California International Arts 2004); ISBN 978-0-917571-12-1 (Spanish)
- Eduardo Luis Rodríguez; The Havana Guide: Modern Architecture 1925-1965; (Princeton Architectural Press 2000); ISBN 978-1-56898-210-6
External links
- Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana. Libros de Pintura Cubana, Mario Carreño
- www.mariocarreno.com
- Sinfonía en Amarillo important artwork from 1952 which represented the artist at the pavilion of Cuba in the II Biennial of São Paulo in 1953 (Cataloged in pag.113, under N° 9 of the Biennial catalog)
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