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Biography - Jose Maria Sicilia

Born

1954 Madrid, Spain.

Education

1975-1979 Beaux‑art de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

One‑person Exhibitions

2001 entre d’Art Contemporain, Issoire
1999 Galeria Tomás March, Valencia
1998 Joseph Helman Gallery, NY
Michael Hue Williams, London
Museo de Art Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon
Galria Maior, Pollensa
Galeria Academia, Salzburg
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia.
Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid
Palias de Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
Museo de la Pasion, Valladolid, Spain
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Joseph Helman Gallery, NY
Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Gandy Gallery, Prague
Pyo Gallery, Seoul
1994 BlumHelman, NY
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1992 “Sanlucar de Barrameda”, BlumHelman, NY
“New Spanish Visions”, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1991 BlumHelman, NY
“New Spanish Visions”, Queens Museum of Art, NY
1990 “Recent Work”, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
José María Sicilia, Runkel-Hue-Williams, Ltd., London, England
“Shadow Play”, Blum Helman, New York, NY
1989 “Works on Paper”, Runkel‑Hue Williams Ltd., London, England
1988 “Works on Paper”, Galerie Carreton Laune, Montpellier, France
Blum Helman, Los Angeles, CA
1987 “New Paintings”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY
“José María Sicilia, Paintings”, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
“Recent Paintings”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1986 “New Paintings”, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
“J. M. Sicilia”, Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Seville, Spain
1985 Sala de Exposiciones, Disputacion Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Seville, Spain
Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1984 Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
“José María Sicilia‑ Peinture, huile sur toile”, Galerie
Crousel‑Hussenot, Paris, France
1983 Galerie Gaston‑Nelson, Villeurbanne, France
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
1982 Galerie Trans/Form, Paris, France
1994 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

Selected Group Exhibitions

1994 “Comme dans une image”, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1993 Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
“Spanish Kaleidoscppe”, Sammlung, Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
1991 “Prints in Series: Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt and José María Sicilia”, Crown Point Press, NY
Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
“Abstraccion: Color”, Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
“Katherine Bowling, Bryan Hunt and José María Sicilia”, Blum Helman, “
“Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Communnity College, Fort Myers, FLA
1989 Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
Blum Helman, New York, with Tuttle/Young
1988 “Ten”, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
“Juxtapositions”, Salama‑Caro Gallery, London
Summer Exhibition, Vrej Baghoomian, New York
Barcelona, Sevilla, Sicilia & Mira”, Catherine Issert Galerie, St. Paul de Vence, France
“Works on Paper II”, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Nomes de Sap Sentir”, Galeria Charles Tache, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Arteunido, Barcelona, Spain
“VII Salon De Los 16”, Museo Espanol de Art Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
“Still Life: Beyond Tradition”, Visual Arts Museum, NY
“Spanish Painting in New York: Two Eras”, Baruch College Gallery, NY
“Espagne ‘87: Dynamiques et interrogations”, Musee d’art de la ville de Paris, France
“Biennale of Sao Paulo”, Brazil
“Spanish Identities II”, Bruno Fachetti, NY
1986 “D’Art Contemporain Midi‑Pyranees”, Toulouse, France
“Artificial Paradise”, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
“Arte Joven en el Palacio de la Moncloa”, Palacio de la Moncloa, Madrid, Spain
“Double Figures”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
“Three Spanish Artists”, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
“Pintores y Escultores Espanoles, 1981‑1986”, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion Caya de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
“Fondos del museo espanol de arte contemporaneo”, Fundation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
“Sixth Biennial of Sydney”, Sydney, Australia
“XLII Biennale de Venezia”, Venice, Italy
“Prospect 86”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Spanische Bilder”, Traveled to Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, and Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Junge Spanische Kunstler”, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
“Art Cologne”, Galeria Juana de Aizpura, Cologne, Germany
“17 Artistas, 17 Autonomias”, Pabellon Mudejar‑Parque de Maria Luisa, Seville, Spain
“New Visions in Contemporary Art”, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
1985 “The Importance of Reality in Spanish Contemporary Art”, Pori, Helsinki, Finland
“Five Spanish Artists”, Artists Space, NY. Traveled : Europalia Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, Ghent
“Bruno Ceccobelli/Jeff Gompertz/Jose Maria Sicilia”, Blum Helman Gallery, NY
“Nouvelle Bienniale de Paris 85”, ARC Musee d’a moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
“Nuove Trame dell’Arte”, Castello Colonna di Genezzano Rome, Italy
“Realisme”, Choisy le Roi, France
“V Salon de los 16”, Museo Espanol de Art Contemporeno , Madrid, Spain
“Cultural Forum of Budapest”, National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
IX Bienal de Ponetverde, Spain
“Le Matierisme”, Galerie Antiope, Paris
“11 European Painters”, National Gallery, Athens,Greece
“Four Spanish Artists”, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Currents”, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA “Acquisitions 1983‑84”, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France. Traveled to Fontainbleu, Strassbourg and Nice.
“Cota Cero (0,00) sobre el nivel del mar”. Traveled to Aclicante and Valencia, Spain.
“En El Centro”, Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid,Spain
“Art Espagnol actuel, jeunes artistes espagnoles”, Traveled to Strassbourg, Nice and Fontainbleu, France
“Ateliers 84”, ARC Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
“Spaanse Kunst”, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
“Colectiva”, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
1983 “D’Effects de Mode”, Musee Bonnat, Bayonne, France
“Loupain 83”, Chapelle Romanique‑Loupain, Montpelier, France
“Exposition collective”, Galerie Crousel‑Hussenot, Paris, France
“Seis Espanoles en Madrid”, Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
“La Imagen del Animal”, Monte de Piedad de Madrid, Spain. Traveled to Barcelona, Spain
1982 “Mouvances: huit artists pour le Japon”, Galerie Trans/Form, Paris, France
XII Biennale de Paris, France
1981 “Transitif‑instransigeant”, Galerie Trans/Form, Paris, France

Public Collections

Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
FRAC, Midi, Pyrennees, France
Musée d’art Moderne et de la creation contemporain, Toulouse, France
Museo de Art Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

Selected Bibliography

1988 Interview, August 1988, p.36
Flash Art, Summer 1988, p. 146
1987 Alberttazzi, Liliana. “José María Sicilia”, Galerie Magazine,(international issue), February/March 1987, p.55.
Baker, Kenneth. “Colorful, Somber Landscapes.”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, 1987.
Bonet, Jean Manuel. “Cuatro artistas espanoles en Burdeos” Diario 16, 1987.
Caley, Shaun. “José María Sicilia, Blum Helman.” FlashArt, May 1987, p.87.
Calvo Serraller, Francisco. Le Spasimo de Sicilia, (exhibition catalogue). Bordeaux capc Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Madrid: Palacio de Velazquez de Madrid.
Calvo Serraller, Francisco. “El Sueno Pictorico de la Razon.”New Art International, no. 5/6 October 1987, pp. 58‑61.
Calvo Serraller, Francisco. La nouvelle imagination, (exhibiton catalogue). Paris “L’imagination Nouvelle. Les annees 70-80 pp.58‑61.
Campoy, A.M. “VII Salon de los 16.” ABC de las Artes, May 14,1987.
Catano, Jose Carlos. Nomes Se Sap Sentir, (exhibition catalogue) Barcelona: Galeria Charles Tache, 1987.
Gallego, Jullian. Espagne 87 Dynamiques et interrogations
(exhibition catalogue) Paris: Arc ‑ Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris.
Garcia, Aurora. “José María Sicilia: Intensidad.” VII Salon de Los 16,1987 (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, 1987, pp.142‑49.
Paulina, Neto, Brigitte. “Images d’un peintre dans son atelier.” Liberation, 10‑11 October, 1987.
Tio Bellido, Ramón. “Entre matiere et geometrie.” Beaux Art, No. 50, October, 1987, pp. 50‑55.
Tully, Judd. “Post‑Franco cultural offensive puts Spanish art on the map.” New Art Examiner, January 1987, pp. 24‑27.
1986 Aizpuru, Juana de. “Diecisiete Artistas/Diecisiete Autonomías”(exhibition catalogue). Pabellon Mudejar, Seville.
Akira, Ikeda Gallery. “José María Sicilia, New Paintings”(exhibitioncatalogue). Nagoya, Japan.
Elliott, David et al. Double Figures/Dobles Figuras: Saura Arroyo, Sicilia, Barcelo (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Ministry of Culture, 1986.
Garcia‑Osuna, Carlos. “José María Sicilia.” Ya,October 291986 p. IX/33.
Gimenez, Carmen. “Arte Joven en el Palacio de Moncloa”, (exhibition catalogue) Madrid: Ministry of Culture, 1986
Grout, Catherine. “José María Sicilia” (interview). FlashArt, No. 127, April 1986, pp. 56‑8.
Hejny, Mathias. “Ein Abgesang auf den wilden Kampfgeist.”
Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, September 19, 1986.
Hoffman, Hilmar et.al. (essay on artist by Elizabeth Sussman)
Prospect 86” (exhibition catalogue). Frankfurt:
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany pp. 198‑200.
Hughes, Robert. “Egos, Kitsch and the Real Thing” Time, July 14, 1986, pp. 67‑8.
Jargue, Fietta. “El joven artista de hoy se siente cosmopolita, nomada y eclectico.” EL Pais, 9 August, 1986, p. 18.
Jose Maria Sicilia (exhibition catalogue). Seville, Spain:Galería La Màquina Española, 1986.
Lorente, Manuel. “José María Sicilia” ABC de las artes, November 27, 1986, p.79.
Machuca, Felix J. “Bolonia, meca del arte contemporaneo
andaluz” ABC de las artes, (Seville) 3 August, 1986,pp.61‑3.
Machuca, Felix J. “José María Sicilia: Pinto para saber cuàl es mi historia.” ABC de las artes, November 1, 1986, p. 31.
Navarro Arisa, J.J. “Polemica entre el pintor Sicilia” la galeria barcelonesa Day al Set por una exposicion.”
El Pais, October 31, 1986, p. 31.
Paz, Marga. et. al. “Espana en la XLII Bienal de Venecia, 1986.”(exhibition catalogue) Madrid, Ministerio de Culture 1986, pp. 80‑4.
Poroghesi, Paolo et al. XLII Esposizione Internazional d’Arte/La Biennale de Venezia (exhibition catalogue). Venice: Electa Editrice for Biennale di Venezia.
Power, Kevin. Spanische Bilder, (exhibition cataloge).
Hamburg, Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Quintvalle, Arturo Carlo. “D’All Artefice All’ Artista.”
Panorama (Milan) 13 July, 1986, pp. 8‑10
Ramon Danvila, Jose. “Las flores y el poder de la materia Jose Maria Sicilia.” El Punto, November 6, 1986.
Raynor, Vivien. “José María Sicilia.” The New York Times, January 3, 1986, p.c20.
Reina, Jesus. “José María Sicilia: Constante Busqueade.”
Puerta de Seville, p.29.
Schuchman, Manfred E. “Die Grosse parade der Postmoderne.”
Darmstadter Echo, September 18, 1986.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo et al. Espana En la XLII Biennale
de Venezia 1986 (exhibition catalogue). Madrid:
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Ministerio de Cultura, 1986.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo et al. Exposiciones: “El sueno pictórico de razón.” El Pais, October 31,1986 , p.14.(unsigned). “Encuentro en la Moncloa de jovenes artistas espanoles con los consejeros del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. ” El Pais, April 17, 1986.
(unsigned). “L’art et la maniere.” As, April 1986, p. 26.
(unsigned). La Luna de Madrid, no 33, December, 1986.
(unsigned). “José María Sicilia.” Diario 16, November 15, 1986.
Westfall, Stephen. “José María Sicilia at Blum Helman.”
Art in America, April 1986, pp.87‑88.
Zaya. “J.M. Sicilia: La Imagen como pretexto. ” Hartisimo, No. 8/9, October December 1985 pp. 105‑116.
Zimmer, William. “José María Sicilia‑Blum/Helman Gallery, New York.” Eye International, Prototype issue, 1986, pp. 46‑7.
1985 Casanelles, M.T. “José María Sicilia.” El Europa,January 17, 1985.
Chalumeau,Jean‑Luc. “José María Sicilia. “Opus International No. 97, Spring 1985, pp. 30‑31.
Cultural Forum of Budapest (exhibition catalogue). Budapest:National Gallery Budapest, 1985.
di Meana, Ripa et al. 11 European Painters (exhibition catalogue). Athens, Greece: NationalGallery, 1985, pp. 133‑44.
Evans‑Clark, Philippe. “New York: Ceccobelli, Sicilia, Gompertz -Blum Helman Gallery. ” Art Press, No. 95, September 1985, pp.58‑9.
Huici, Fernando. “José María Sicilia, en la densidad de la pintura.” El Pais, No. 269, January 5, 1985.
“The Importance of Reality in Spanish Contemporary Art.” Pori, Helsinki, Finland, 1985.
Lorente, Manuel. “José María Sicilia, un pintor joven con proyección internacional.” ABC de las artes, February 22, 1985.
Navarro, Javier Rubio. José María Sicilia (exhibition catalogue). Màlaga, 1985.
Nuove Trame Dell’Arte (exhibition catalogue). Rome:
Castello Colonna di Gennazzano, 1985.
Perez‑Guerra, José. “José María Sicilia, en vijande: Cosmopolita como panorama de pintura.” cinco dias, No. 1763, January 9, 1985.
Pinharanda, Joao. New Work: José María Sicilia (exhibition catalogue). Lisbon: Cómicos, 1985..
Piquest, Philippe. “José María Sicilia: qu’est ce qui fait un tableau?” Art Press No. 97,November 1985, p. 41.
Power, Kevin. Pintores y Escultores Espanoles 1981‑1986
(exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Fundación Caja de Pensiones, pp. 80‑99.
Power, Kevin. Cota cero (+0,00) sobre el nivel del mar (exhibition catalogue). Seville, Spain: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, p. 46.
Rivas, Francisco. “Cinco Artistas Espanoles: José María
Sicilia.: No. 134, 1985 pp. 83‑99.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo. “José María Sicilia/Vijande, Madrid.”
Flash Art, No. 121, March 1985, pp. 82‑99.
Sultan, Donald et al. Five Spanish Artists (exhibition catalogue). New York: Artists Space, 1985, pp. 82‑99.
Sussman, Elizabeth. Current: José María Sicilia
Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1985
1984 Aliaga, Juan Vincente. “José María Sicilia: La Intesidad de lo Imaginario.” Comercial de la Pintura, No. 14, 1984, pp. 124‑29.
Aliaga, Juan Vincente. “Sicilia: Une Lectura Nostalgica de la Bastilla.” Reull, No. 7, 1984.
Arnaudet, Didier. “José María Sicilia. ” Axe Sud, No. 11, Winter 1984 Bonet, Juan Manuel. “José María Sicilia.” Nouvelle Biennale de Paris 85 (exhibition catalogue). Paris, 1984, pp.63, 291, 295.
Espaliu, Pepe. “Entrevista con José María Sicilia Figura,Fall 1984.
Gareia, Auror. En el Centro (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Centro Cultural de la Villa, 1984.
Grout, Catherine. “José María Sicilia.” Flash Art, (French edition), No. 2 Winter 1984. Paz, Marga. “Entrevista a Jose Maria Sicilia.” Comerical de la Pintura, No. 4, October 1984, pp. 115‑23.
Paz, Marga. “José María Sicilia, la imagen de lo cotidiano.”Lapiz, No. 21, December 1984.
Piguet, Philippe. “José María Sicilia.” Flash Art (French edition), No. 5, Autumn 1984.
Power, Kevin. “Sicilia: Nettoyage de la Place de la Bastille.”
Figura, Autumn 1984, pp. 47‑53.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo et al. José María Sic Pinturas 1983‑1984 (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Galeria Fernando Vijande, 1984.
Tio, Bellido, Ramon. José María Sicilia (exhibition catalogue) Villeurbanne: Galerie Gaston‑Nelson, 1984.
Tio Bellido, Ramon. Art Espagñol actuel, Jeunes artistes espagñoles (exhibition catalogue). Toulouse, France: Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, 1984.
Tio Bellido, Ramón. “Sicilia is Back in Town” Ateliers 84:José María Sicilia (exhibition brochure). Paris: ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1984.
1983 Ott, Lise. “Sicilia‑Groussard/Montpellier, Galerie Christian Laune. ” Artistes, No. 16, Spring 1983, p. 142.
Serraller, Francisco Calvo. El Pais, October 1983.
Tio Bellido, Ramón. D’Effects de Mode (exhibition catalogue) Bayonne, France: Mus Bonnat, 1983 La Imagen del Animal (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Palacio de las Alhajas, 1983.
Loupian ‘83 (exhibition catalogue). Montpellier, France: Chapelle Romanique‑Loupian, 1983.
1982 Tio Bellido, Ramón. Sicilia, Fdez‑Shaw (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Trans/Form, Tio Bellido, Ramón. José María Sicilia: Peintures (exhibition catalogue). Villeurbanne, France: Galerie Gaston‑Nelson, 1982.
Tio Bellido, Ramón. MOUVANCES: huit artistes pour le Japon(exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Trans/Form, 1982.