Arturo Herrera (Caracas, 1959) lives and works in Berlin.

Arturo Herrera employs a wide variety of elements by the appropriation of the Art of '50s, '60s, '80s and popular culture to create a multilayered body of work featuring justapoxitions and associations of deconstructed images. His work is made of collages, photographs, sculptures, works on paper and wall paintings. The artist often uses a fragmented language by mixing cartoon imagery with different elements to allow the interpretation of the visitors who, on decrypting the codes of the original source, will investigate on contents and forms. The resulting works hang in balance between implicit and explicit, related to the potentiality of the viewer’s unconscious intuition. In collages, cut felts, photography and wall paintings, the artist sets up a never solved tension between perception and recognition. More than eradicating and fragmenting the image, Herrera dislocates and fragments abstractionʼs legibility.

His work has been shown in solo exhibition in international public and private Institutions, including: Art Station Wolfsburg Central Station, Wolfsburg, Germany (2019); OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy (2018);  Tate Modern Bankside, London, UK (2016); Museum London, London, UK (2015); Americas Society, New York, USA (2011); Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (2010); Fundación Odalys Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela (2009); The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, USA (2007); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2005); Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA (2001); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2001); MoMA PS1, New York, USA (2000); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (1998); The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA (1998); MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (1995).

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in Institutions such as: ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (2018); GAM – Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin and Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (2017); Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA (2015);  Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA (2014); Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, USA (2013); Fundacíon Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2011); Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2011); MoMA, New York, USA (2009);  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2008), among many others.

He has participated in biennials and international exhibitions such as: 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2011); 5th Prague Biennale , Prague, Czech Republic (2011); 7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009); 1st Prospect Biennial of Contemporary Art, New Orleans, USA (2008); 24th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2004); 4th Biennale Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2003); Whitney Biennial 2002, New York, USA (2002); 6th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (1999).

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