Galería Cavecanem, Sevilla, Spain
Jose María Sicilia Biography
Madrid, Spain, 1954
Established Spanish painter and graphic artist Jose Maria Sicilia currently resides in Paris and Palma de Mallorca.
In 1980 he abandoned his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid to move to Paris. In Paris he began his artistic career, with work that had its roots in expressionism. Sicilia was later to become one of the most prestigious young Spanish artists of the eighties.
He moved to New York in 1985, where a new structural lay-out and great simplicity in shapes allowed him to explore in depth chromatic values and textures that finally led him to discover monochromes.
In 1989 he received the National Prize in Visual Arts from the Ministry of Culture of Spain.
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2002 - Le Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimee, La Louviere (Belgium)
2001 - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Issoire (France) - Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon (Portugal)
2000 - Galeria Tomas March, Valencia - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris - Musee des Beaux Arts de Caen (France) - Michael Hue Williams, London, U.K. - Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona - Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon
1999 - Tamada Projects Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. - Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium.
1998 - Museo de la Pasion, Valladolid - Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo de San Jose de Costa Rica - Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London - Joseph Helman Gallery, New York - Gian Ferrari Art Contemporanea, Milan - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris.
1997 - Galeria Maior, Pollensa - Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid
1996 - Joseph Helman Gallery, New York - Ediciones T, Barcelona - Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Galeria Gandy, Prague - Galeria Pyo, Seoul - Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1995 - Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona - Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan
1994 - Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid - Blum Helman Gallery, New York - Galerie Jaspers, Odense - Michael Hue Williams, London
1993 - Fundacion Pilar i Joan Miro, Palma de Mallorca - Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon - Galeria Comicos Luis Serpa, Lisbon - Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1992 - Blum Helman Gallery, New York - Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich
1991 - Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid - Pabellon Mudejar, Sevilla
1990 - Blum Helman Gallery, New York - Galerie Pierre Huber, Geniva - Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona - Thomas Seagal Gallery, Boston
1989 - Runkel-Hue Williams, Ltd., London - Gian Enzo Esperone, Rome
1988 - Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris - Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid - Palacete Embarcadero, Madrid - Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 - Blum Helman Gallery, New York - Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco - CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Burdeos - Cultural Rioja, Logroño; Centro del Carmen, IVAM, Valencia
1982 - Galerie Trans/Form, Paris
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS - CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Burdeos - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla - Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio - Coleccion Banco de España, Madrid - Coleccion Arte Contemporaneo Fundacion La Caixa, Barcelona - Coleccion Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid - Coleccion Fundesco, Madrid - Col?leccio Testimoni de La Caixa, Barcelona - FRAC (Fonds Regionaux d'Art Contemporani), Midi Pyrenees - Fundacio Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona - IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia - Musee d'Art Contemporain, Toulouse - Musee d'Art Moderne et la Creation - Museo Extremeño Iberoamericano de Arte Español Contemporaneo, Badajoz - Museo Marugame Hirai de Arte Español Contemporaneo, Marugame - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid - Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo - Museum of Modern Art, New York - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York