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WALDO BALARTimages curriculum

Born in 1931 in Cuba

Living and working in Madrid

Education

  • 1954 Graduated as Certified Public Accountant from Havana University, Cuba
  • 1955-1957 Post-Graduate Studies in Political and Economic Sciences, Santo Tomás de Villanueva University, Havana, Cuba
  • 1959-1962 Art Studies at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
  • Less For More,  Casado Santapau Gallery , Madrid, Spain
2023
  • Paysage Géométrique, Bendana Pinel Gallery (Paris) in collaboration with Casado Santapau Gallery (Madrid).
2021
  • Ritmos y campos de sentido, Museo Francisco Sobrino, Guadalajara, Spain
  • Roy Gallery, Felanitx/Mallorca, Spain
2020
  • Nudos Génesis, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
  • Museo del Greco, Toledo, Spain
  • Roy Gallery, Felanitx/Mallorca, Spain
2017
  • Miami Biennale, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Florida, USA
2016
  • Galerie 100 Kubik, Köln, Germany
  • Guillermo de Osma Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2013
  • Ideobox, Miami, USA
2012
  • Henrique Faria fine Art, New York
  • Espacio B, Madrid, Spain
2009
  • Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
  • Sianoja, Sala de exposiciones “José Hierro”, Noja, Santander, Spain
2008
  • 10st Literary Studies: new ways for literature and art. Patio de la Alhóndiga, Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, Spain
2006
  • Edurne Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • Galerie für Konkrete Kunst, Berlin/Potsdam
2004
  • Museo Casa de los Tiros, Granada, Spain
  • Casa de Cultura, Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain
2002
  • Sculpture of Light, Casa de Galicia, Madrid, Spain
  • Luz, Orden, Intuición, Trazos Tres Gallery, Santander, Spain
  • SYSTEEM & INTUÏTIE,Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
  • Florida International University, Miami, USA
  • LA BOHEME Art Gallery, Coral Gables, USA
2001
  • Sistematizaciones, Acanto Gallery, Almería, Spain
2000
  • Imagen Ortogonal Fragmentada/Integrada, 90º, IOFI, Edurne Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1999
  • Galeriehaus e.V.,Installation, Nürenberg, Germany
1997
  • Black Painting, Edurne Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1996
  • The Embassy Gallery, Coral Gables, USA
1995
  • T Leerhuys Gallery, Installation, Bruges, Belgium
  • Quadri-Ben Durant Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1994
  • Edurne Gallery, Installation, Madrid, Spain
1993
  • Eugenia Cucalón Gallery, Installation, New York, NY, USA
1992
  • Cyan Gallery, Liege, Belgium
  • Nuba Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1990
  • Edurne Gallery, Installation, Madrid, Spain
1989
  • Heads & Legs Space, Liege, Belgium
  • Graff & Schelbe Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • L’Idée Gallery, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
  • Mona Gallery, Denia, Spain
1987
  • Edurne Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1983
  • Kandinsky Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • CRAC Gallery, Aranjuez, Spain
  • Microteam Inauguration, Madrid, Spain
1982
  • María Luisa Gallery, Calpe, Spain
1981
  • Kandinsky Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1980
  • Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Zamora, Zamora, Spain
1977
  • Galería Arte-Sanos, Asunción, Paraguay
1975
  • Galería SEN, Madrid, Spain
  • Club Internacional de Prensa, Madrid, Spain
1973
  • Casa de Cultura, Cuenca. Spain
1972
  • Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Installation, Madrid, Spain
1971
  • Graham Gallery, New York, USA
1970
  • Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, USA
  • Graham Gallery, New York, USA
  • SOHO First Festival, Installation, New York, USA
1969
  • SD Gallery, Guatemala, Guatemala
  • Cisneros Gallery, New York, USA
1968
  • Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, USA
  • Studio Gallery, Washington D. C., USA
1967
  • Iris Clert Gallery, Paris, France
  • East Hampton Gallery, New York, USA
1966
  • Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1965
  • Cisneros Gallery, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions (last 20 years)

2024
  • KALEIDOSCOPES, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Paris, France; In collaboration with Galería Casado Santapau.
2023
  • TRANSIT: Materia, espacio, color y tiempo at Palacio Los Serrano, Fundación Ávila, Spain.
  • Cromático, Art Center Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes
2021
  • This must be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975, Americas Society, NY USA
  • ARCO 2021, Casado Santapau gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019
  • Forum für Konkrete Kunst, Jena, Germany
  • Kunstraum Roy, Kunnersdorf, Germany
  • ARCO 2019, Guillermo de Osma Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2019, Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • Die farben der geometrie, 100 Kubik Galerie, Köln, Germany
  • FRIEZE New York, Casado Santapau gallery, New York, USA
2018
  • ART COLOGNE, Galerie 100 kubik, Cologne, Germany
  • Art Düsseldorf, Casado Santapau Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • ARCO 2018, Guillermo de Osma Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2018, Casado y Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2018, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA
2017
  • Radical, Quadri Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  • ARCO 2017, Guillermo de Osma Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2017, Casado y Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2017, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Madrid, Spain
  • Conciencia Colectiva, Museo de Teruel, Teruel, Spain
  • Papers I Collages, Lonja de Sant Jordi, Alcoi, Spain
  • Cuban Abstraction, Art Nouveau, Miami, USA
  • Karl Braun Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Cintas Foundation, Miami, USA
  • PAMM, Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA
  • Circulo Cultural Español, Miami, USA
  • Nouveau Cologne Fine Art Fair, Galerie 100 kubik, Köln, Germany
2016
  • Karlsruhe Art Fair, Wein, Austria- 100 Kubik Gallery – Cologne- Germany
  • ARCO 2016, Galeria Henrique Farias, Madrid, Spain
  • ARCO 2016, Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Spain
  • ArtMadrid’16 – Galerie 100Kubik, Cologne, Germany
  • Interacción, Centro de Holografía y Arte Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, Spain
  • Vanidades, Intelecto, Espiritualidad – Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
  • Hipocamps – Alicante University, Alicante, Spain
  • Poème de l’Angle Droit, Casado and Santapau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • Imagining Spaces: constructions in color and text, Henrique Faria Gallery, New York, USA
  • Berlin Art Fair, Galerie 100 Kubik, Cologne, Germany
2015
  • Klaus Baun Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
  • ARCO 2015 Galería Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Spain
  • ESTAMPA, Galería José de la Mano, Madrid, Spain
  • 60 años de geometría, Sala El Club, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
2014
  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Guillermo de Osma Gallery, Miami, USA
  • Hommage an Eine Grüdergeneration, Akademiegalerie im Weisbachschen Haus, Plauen, Germany
  • ARCO 2014, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Madrid, Spain
  • Diálogos geométricos, Edurne Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • Neon, Vom Leuchten der Kunst, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2013
  • Neon-Vom Leuchten der Kunst, Museum für Konkret Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
  • Espacio e Identidad, Fuencaral 77, Madrid, Spain
  • Pinta London, Henrique Faria Gallery,
  • The Grauwinkel Collection Berlin, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
  • PARC, Peru Arte Contemporáneo, Henrique Faria Fine Art
  •  The Armory Show, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA
  • Abel Martin, Serígrafo, Museo Salvador Victoria, Rubielos de Mora, Teruel, Spain
2012
  • Pinta – Henrique Faria Fine Art – Stand B-02, New York
  • Art Basel Miami Beach, Henrique Faria Fine Art
  • The Armory Show, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, USA
  • Art Karlsrube, Galerie Lindner & Roy, Viena, Austria
  • “Zur Magie des Quadrates”, Galerie Edition Roy, Berlin, Germany
  • “Accrochasge”, Galerie Edition Roy, Berlin, Germany
  • 30 Pintores de una Generación Irrepetible, Museo Salvador Victoria, Rubielos de Mora, Spain
  • Botero Studio, Palm Beach, USA
2011
  • Institute für Neue Technische Form, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Ornament-Seriality, Museum Vasarely/Museum Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
  • Constructivismo y otras actitudes de la racionalidad, Orfila Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • De líneas, formas, medidas, color y materia, Edurne Gallery, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
  • Art Karlsrube 2011, Galerie Lindner & Roy, Viena, Austria
  • Galerie Edition Roy, Berlin, Germany
2010
  • Art Karlsrube 2010, Galerie Lindner & Roy, Viena, Austria
  • Then & Now, Abstraction in Latin American Art from 1950 to Present, Deutsche Bank AG, New York, USA
2009
  • Galerie Edition Roy, Berlin, Germany
  • Re-connaitre, Paksi Képtar, Museum Paks, Hungary
  • Hommage an eine gründergeneration Bauhaus 2009, Forum Konkrete Kunst, Erfurt, Germany
2008
  • Ein Jahr 31 Positionen 30 Raum, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany
2007
  • Ausgerechnet… Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würsburg, Germany
  • Constructivo, Concreto, Reductivo, Inteligible, Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio, Aranjuez, Spain
  • Zawzig/25 ein Ausblick, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 100 Tage im Amt., Markt Rosstal, Rosstal, Germany
2006
  • Geometric, Why not? Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, USA
  • Forum Konkrete Kunst Erfurt, Townhall Gallery, Mainz, Germany
  • Latin Collector Gallery: Abstraction: Presence of Cuban Painters in New York (1950s-70), USA
  • Valdepeñas Art International Exhibition, Valdepeñas, Spain
2004
  • Encuentro de Artistas, Espacio-Arte “El Dorado”, Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo, Spain
  • Identidades, Edurne Gallery, Madrid
  • Art Basel, Atelier-Editions Fanal, Basel, Switzerland
2003
  • Europa, Konkret, Reduktive, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland
  • “10-TEN-X”, FORUM KONKRET KUNST ERFÜRT, Germany
  • Salida de Emergencia, Cuban Art in Exile, Cadiz, Spain
  • L’Arte Costruisce l’Europe: Arte Struktura, Milano, Italy
2002
  • “Europa, Konkret, Reduktiv”, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany
  • “3rd Exposición de Donaciones de Obra Gráfica a la Biblioteca Nacional

Collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, USA
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami, PAAM, Miami, USA
  • Chrysler Museum of Art, Virginia, USA
  • Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert, Konkrete Kunst in Europa nach 1945
  • Sammlung Grauwinkel Berlin
  • Görlitzer Sammlungen, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz, Germany
  • Museum of Modern Art, Hünfeld, Germany
  • kfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
  • Museum de la Communauté francaise de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • Museo Paraguayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Asunción, Paraguay
  • Museo Nacional y Centro de Artes Reina Sofía, Madrid, España
  • Museo Postal y Telegráfico, Madrid, España
  • Sammlung Simpfendörfer, Wiesbaden
  • MACBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Museo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain

Publications

  • The Practice of Concrete Art, The european Society’s Path towards Knowledge, 2011, ADvana Vieja, Spain
  • Ensayos Sobre Arte, 1993, Betania, Spain