BIOGRAPHY
Born San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lives and works in New York City and El Yunque
rainforest in Puerto Rico
Papo Colo is a poet who uses concepts to produce art
and an artist that chooses any medium, depending on its purpose.
Papo Colo is a multi-dimensional artist: performance,
theater and installation artist, painter, writer, and graphic designer. In 1982
he co-founded Exit Art, an internationally known cultural center in New York.
He has been curator and cultural producer of Exit Art and has organized over
100 shows in which he was also the exhibition and graphic designer. In 1992 he
founded the Trickster Theater to expand his experiments as an
inter-disciplinary artist.
1984 - present Co-founder/Artistic
Director Exit Art
1998 - present Founder/Director
Trickster Theater
1991 – 1993 Founder/Director
The Cultural Space
WEBSITES
www.papocolo.com
www.trickstertheater.org
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Jumping
the Fences, Galeria de la Raza, San
Francisco, CA
2008 Genie
In the Bottle, Nyehaus, NY
1997 Voyage, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA
Paintings, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins
Park, PA
1991 Zero
Identity, The Cultural Space, NY
(essay)
1990 Holy
Wars, The Cultural Space, NY (essay)
Evidences.
From the Postcolonial to the Hybrid State,The
Cultural Space, NY (essay)
1986 Will,
Power and Desire 1976-86, Exit Art,
NY (catalog)
Rosa
Esman Gallery, NY
Herter
Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1984 Monique
Knowlton Gallery, NY
1983 Images
of the New World, Intar Gallery, NY
1982 Lost
and Gained Paradise, Just Above
Midtown Gallery, NY
1980 Untitled/Anonymous, El Museo del Barrio, NY (catalog)
1979 Documentos
Falsos, Galeria Ciento, Barcelona,
Spain
1978 Cimarron, Forma Gallery, Miami, Florida
1977 Armas
Blancas, Mec-Mec Gallery, Barcelona,
Spain (catalog)
Contradiction, Spanish Institute, NY
1976 Paintings, Casablanca Gallery, NY
Cayman
Gallery, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 100
Years (version # 2 , ps1, nov 2009),
PS1, NY
Voces
y Visiones, El Museo del Barrio, NYPerformance Art, Opening October 2009, Le Générateur, Paris, France
Puerto
Rico: Geographia Humana: Imagenes del siglo XXI, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR
Negritude, Exit Art, NY
2008 The
Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality, Exit Art, NY
Arte
≠ Vida, El Museo del Barrio, NY
Otro
Cara, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico,
Santurce, PR
FAS
- Feria de Arte Sonoro, La
Respuesta, Santurce, PR
2007 Pulpo, National Gallery of Puerto Rico, Old San Juan, PR
Jumping
the Fences, Galeria Jesus Gallardo,
Mexico
Salsa
Requiem, Taller Boricua, NY
2006 Rewind,
Rewind, Institute of Puerto Rican
Culture, San Juan, PR
Re-Shuffle:
Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Art
In General, NY
The
Downtown Show, Grey Art Gallery,
NYU, NY
2005 Works
from the Permanent Collection, El
Museo del Barrio, NY
Island
Nations, The RISD Museum,
Providence, Rhode Island
Scenery
2 (A Reconstruction), Vlaams
Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
2004 Performance
en Vivo, Arohead, Museo de Arte de
Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR
2001 globe>miami<island, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach FL
1999 The
2nd Annual Portrait Show,
Jorgenson Gallery, NY
1993 Quincentenary:
Recollections, Resistances, Reconstructions, Hillwood Art
Museum,
C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University
1992 Concurrencies, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY
Will
/ Power, Wexner Center for the Arts,
Columbus, OH
SLOW
ART: Painting in NY Now, P.S. 1, NY
1991 World
Disorder, The Cultural Space, NY
NY:
The Next Generation, Carnegie Mellon
Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1990 Out
of Abstraction, Islip Art Museum,
Long Island
Illegal
America, Exit Art, NY
1986 Eclectic, Rosa Esman Gallery, NY
The
Logical Liberation, Fashion Moda, NY
New
Art NY, Harlem School of the Arts,
NY
In
the Tropics, Bronx Center for the
Arts, NY
1985 Collaborations, Alternative Museum of Art, NY
1984 Aqui, Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern
California, CA
1983 Traditions
and Modern Configurations, Monogram
Products, NY, travels
to Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Inside/Out, Bronx River Restoration, NY
Textos
Infernos, Galeria Venezuela, NY
Latino
NY, Gallery 1199, NY (curated by
Lucy Lippard)
1982 Dirty
Pictures, White Columns, NY
Illegal
America, Franklin Furnace, NY
Face
to Face, Alternative Museum, NY
Ritual
& Rhythm, Kenkeleba House, NY
The
Beauty Show, ABC NO RIO, NY
Unseen
Realities: The Spiritual in Art,
Tweed Gallery, N.J.
1981 Dark
Thoughts: Black Paintings, Pratt
Institute NY
Land/Urban
Scapes, Islip Art Museum, Islip,
L.I. (catalog)
VARS
AT JAM, Just Above Midtown Gallery,
NY
1980 Marking
Black, Bronx Museum of Art, NY
(catalog)
Amnesty
International, Barcelona, Spain
1979 Private
Icons, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
(catalog)
1978 Resurgimiento, El Museo Del Barrio, NY
Variations
on Latin Themes in NY, Center for
Inter-American Relations, NY
1977 Roots
and Visions, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. travels to
Tucson
Museum, Everson Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago,
and Palacio del Minerias, Mexico City (catalog)
1976 NAM, Brooklyn Museum, NY
The
Spirit of Independence, Cayman
Gallery, NY
IMAN:
NY, Center For Inter-American
Relations, NY
1975 First
International Encounter of Video,
Center of Art and Communication,
Buenos
Aires, Argentina
International
Festival of the Arts, NY
PERFORMANCES, PUBLIC ACTS, AND INSTALLATIONS
2008 Salsa
Requiem, NY
2007 Jumping
the Fences, Puerto Rico/New York
Pulpo/Octopus, National Gallery of Puerto Rico, Old San Juan, PR
The
Universe Is Hidden in the Trees,
Puerta de Tierra, PR
2006 There’s
No Place Like Home, Puerta de
Tierra, PR
Blood
Kisses, The Armory, NY
2004 Arohead, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR
1999 The
Diferencia, part of The History
of the Future performance series, Franklin
Furnace, NY
1998 The
Traveler, Trickster Theater, NY
1997 Terra
Bomba, Exit Art/The First World, NY
1996 Resonance, Trickster
Theater, NY
1995 Imaginary
Beings, First World Theater, NY
1994 Let
the Artist Live! Exit Art/The First
World, NY
1992 Stolen
Kisses, First World Theater, The
Cultural Space, NY
Zygmunt,
First World Theater, The Cultural Space, NY
Sud-acá / SUDACA,
part of the Parallel History performance
series: Speaking Tongues,
Exit Art, NY
1990 Sud-acá / SUDACA,
Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA
1986 The
Differencia, Exit Art, NY
1984 American
Enigma, Fisher Art Gallery,
University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA
1983 Battle
Value, Monogram Products, NY
De-Colonize
Puerto Rico, United Nations, NY
Visual
Memory, Wake Forest Art Gallery,
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Against
the Current, Bronx River
Restoration, NY
1982 Language
is the Mechanic of Culture, Franklin
Furnace, NY
Octopus, El Museo del Barrio and Exit Art, NY
1978 American
Apart Art, mail art, NY
1977 Superman
51, Westside Highway, NY
Artyard, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Low
Clouds, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1976 Walking
Sculpture, West Broadway, NY
Coronation, West Broadway, NY
EXHIBITION AWARDS
2003 The
New York Times Best Show of the Year: Exit Biennial: Reconstruction
2001 Library
of Congress acquires REACTIONS for
permanent collection.
International
Art Critics Award for the exhibition The End
1995 Bessie, NY Dance & Performance Award for Let The
Artist Live!
1994 International
Art Critics Award for the exhibition Endurance
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2004 New
York State Council on the Arts - Artist Sponsored Project in Theater
1991 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship - Painting
NY
Foundation for the Arts - Painting
1987 Art
Matters, Inc.
Franklin
Furnace Fund for Performance Art
1983 National
Endowment for the Arts - Visual Arts
1982 New
York State Council on the Arts - Artist Sponsored Project
1981 CAPS
Grant in Painting
National
Endowment for the Arts - Visual Arts
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