Gonzalo Fuenmayor
1977
Barranquilla, Colombia
Barranquilla, Colombia
9 Works exhibited on Kooness
Represented by
Galería El Museo
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Works by Gonzalo Fuenmayor
Gonzalo Fuenmayor has questioned the ideas of what a Latin American artist should be. He makes drawings and installations which persistently deal with two major topics for him: cultural hybridity and transnational identity. Concerned about the effects of modernization and progress not only on natural environments, but mostly on Latin American culture and its ways of being displayed internationally through stereotypes and common places. His aim seems to be not exclusively, to denounce banalization but also to understand its aesthetic mechanisms and cultural power. In the last years he produced large-scale charcoal drawings (of subjects such as palms, storms, royal interiors and furniture), by which he explores tropical symbols in a surreal contact with an opulent and elegant imagery. His work triggers political and sensitive responses, as its stands firmly in the vernacular and artistic tradition of ornament, deeply rooted in the subcontinent.
Gonzalo Fuenmayor (b. 1977, Barranquilla, Colombia) has re-launched these conceptions in a worldwide spectre. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in USA, Latin America and Europe. His work was recently showcased in The Florida Prize 2018, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando; a solo exhibition “Tropical Mythologies” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2015; “Caribbean Crossroads," at the Queens Museum, NY; as well as recent solo shows at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in 2018 and Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, in 2016.
Solo shows
2023
Gonzalo Fuenmayor - Tropismos, Galeria El Museo
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Bretonian Slip, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
2020
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Palindromes, Dot Fiftyone Gallery
Los Macondos, Galeria El Museo
2019
Empire, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
2017
Tropicalypse, Dot Fiftyone Gallery
2016
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Picturesque, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Group shows
2024
Visiones de la naturaleza, Galeria El Museo
2023
The Tropics, Adelson Galleries
2022
Gonzalo Fuenmayor + Marcos Castro, "Tremors in Paradise", Dot Fiftyone Gallery
Collective Art installation II, The Art Design Project
Macondo: Colombian Imaginaries, Casa AmaCord
2020
On Paper, Dot Fiftyone Gallery
Galeria El Museo at PArC 2020, Galeria El Museo
2017
ARTIST AS SUBJECT: 20th Anniversary Show, Dolby Chadwick Gallery
2015
A Sense of Place: Selections from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Mana Contemporary
Fair booths
2024
Galeria El Museo at Pinta PArC 2024, Galeria El Museo
Galeria El Museo at Zona MACO 2024, Galeria El Museo
2023
Galeria El Museo at Latin American Galleries Now 2023, Galeria El Museo
Galeria El Museo at SP–Arte 2023, Galeria El Museo
2020
Dot Fiftyone Gallery at ZⓈONAMACO 2020, Dot Fiftyone Gallery
2015
Dot Fiftyone Gallery at arteBA 2015, Dot Fiftyone Gallery
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