PEPÓN OSORIO
Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1955,
Lives in Philadelphia, PA
EDUCATION
Universidad Inter-Americana, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1974
Herbert H. Lehman College, Bronx, NY, BS, 1978
Columbia University, New York, NY, MA, 1985
AWARDS
Alpert Award, California Institute of the Arts, 1999
John D. and Catherine MacArthur Fellwoship, 1999
Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist’s Fellowship, 1996-97
International Association of Art Critics Award, 1996
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Residency Award, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia,
PA, 1996
Lynn Blumenthal Memorial Fund, 1996
New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, 1995
Louis Tiffany Comfort Award, 1993
Lila Wallace Arts Partners International Artist Program, 1993
Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship, 1993
Theater Communications Group & National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship,
1990
Krasner Pollack Foundation Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship, 1988
New York Dance and Performance Award, 1985
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2000 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL, Latino and Beyond
National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, La Luz:
Contemporary Latino Art in the United States
Door to Door, Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico/ Museo de San Jaun/
Museo de Arte Contempraneo de Puerto Rico and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999 Transboricua, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
1998 Las Twines Storefront, South Bronx, New York, Las Twines
Las Twines Hostas Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Sala Seis: Pepón Osorio, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1997 Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester, CA
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, Badge of Honor
South Bronx and Manhattan, NY, El Cab
1996 Museo de Pedro Albizu, Campos, Chicago, bi-lingua-lismo
Galerie OZ, Paris, France, Pepón Osorio
Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York, NY, Badge of Honor
Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA,
En la barberia no se llora
1995 Storefront, 33 Broadway, Newark, NJ, Project 5: Pepón Osorio
– Badge of Honor
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop
1993 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, Scene of the Crime (Whose
Crime?).
1992 Museum of American Art, Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
The Wake: Aids in the Latino Community.
University of the Arts, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA,
Historias.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000 Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Illuminations:
Global Perspectives in Video Art
1998 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Not Only for Art’s Sake.
The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY,
Puerto Rican Equation
1997 Africus Institute for Contemporary Art, Johannesburg, South Africa,
2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997
Centro Cultural/Arte Contempororaneo Mexico City, Mexico, Asi esta la Cosa:
instalacion y arte objecto
en America Latina
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, American Stories – Amidst Displacement
and Transformatiomulto,
coordinated by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC, travel to:
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Fukui Fine Art Museum, Fukui, Kurashiki
City Museum of Art, Atorion, Akita, Prefectural Cultural Hall, Akita
Do It, 1997 – 2000, a traveling exhibition conceived and curated by
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and organized
and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI) New York. (catalog)
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, As Time Goes By:
History, Memory and
the Sentimental
International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, (catalog)
VI Cuban Bienniale, Havana, Cuba (catalog)
Techno-Seduction, Cooper Union, NYC with the College Art Association,(catalog)
1996 Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, American
Kaleidoscope: Themes
and Perspectives in Recent Art (catalog)
Humbolt Park, Chicago, Sculpture Chicago: Re-inventing the Garden City,
June.
The Old State House, Hartford, CT, Legacy/Legado: A Latino Bicentennial
Reflection, May.
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, The Home Show
II, April.
1995 Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Archeological Urban Data
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany, Dialog der Kulturen
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Art at the Edge: Social Turf.
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, Reclaiming Popular Culture.
Ceremony of Spirit, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA, and travel to;
Laguna Gloria Art
Museum, Austin, TX; Huino’eah Visual Arts Center, Honolulu, HI; Fullerton
Museum, Fullerton,
CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,
NY.
Installation Biennial, San Diego, CA, Insite 94.
1994 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, Outside the Frame:
Performance and the
Object, Spring and travel to Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug
Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, NY, IN the Ring
1993 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Biennial.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, In the Ring, March.
1992 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, The Edge of Childhood.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, The Invention of Childhood.
Monasterio de Santa Clara, Seville, Spain, Americas.
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, First Invasion: Contemporary Artists
of the Caribbean.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
The National Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
The Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY