Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera
Born	Arturo Herrera 1959 Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	Venezuela
Education	University of Tulsa, University of Illinois at Chicago
Known for	Collage, Drawing, Sculpture
Awards	DAAD Fellowship

Arturo Herrera (born 1959) is a Venezuelan visual artist who exhibits internationally, known for his melding of cartoons and collage. He has had one-person exhibitions at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dia Center For The Arts, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Whitney Museum of American Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.

Utilizing fragments of imagery borrowed from popular culture, Arturo Herrera creates collages, felt sculptures, and wall paintings that lie on the shifting border between legibility and abstraction.

1999-Jan. 16, 2000.

Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Fundación D.O.P., Madrid, Spain.
Tate Britain, London (England), United Kingdom.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Colección D.O.P., Paris, France.
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Hong Kong, China.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), Caracas, Venezuela
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
UBS AG Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, U.S.A.
ARCO Foundation Collection, Madrid, Spain

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