Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2017
"The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca" The Noguchi Museum, New York, New York

2003  
“Gonzalo Fonseca,” Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

1999  
“Gonzalo Fonseca,”Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote

1994  
“Mundos de Gonzalo Fonseca,” Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

1991  
“Gonzalo Fonseca: Sabbakhin Sculpture,” Arnold Herstand, New York

1990  
“Gonzalo Fonseca,” Venice Biennale, Italy, representing Uruguay

1989  
“Fonseca, Sculpture & Drawings,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois

1988  
“Gonzalo Fonseca: Sculpture & Drawings,” Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York

1986  
“Gonzalo Fonseca: Sculpture,” Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York

1978  
“Fonseca,” Fiera di Bologna, Italy

1977  
“Sculture di Gonzalo Fonseca,” Galería del Naviglio, Milán, Italy

1976  
“Gonzalo Fonseca,” Galería Adler/ Castillo, Caracas, Venezuela

1974  
“Gonzalo Fonseca,” Galería Conkright, Caracas, Venezuela

1970  
“Gonzalo Fonseca, Recent Works,” The Jewish Museum, New York

1962  
“Gonzalo Fonseca, Selected Works,” The Portland Museum, Oregon

1953  
“Gonzalo Fonseca Ceramica” Gallery San Marco, Rome, Italy

1952  
“Gonzalo Fonseca Paintings,” Studio Claudio Matinenghi, Rome, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2008  
“Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.

2004  
“Inverted Utopias,” (Heterotopías: medio siglo sin lugar: re-curated), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

2002  
“Continuita: Arte in Toscana, 1945-2000,” organized by the Sistema Metropolitano Arte Contemporanea.

2000  
“Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm”, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium & IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

“Heterotopías: medio siglo sin lugar,” curated by Héctor Olea and Maricarmen Ramirez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (December 2000-March 2001)

1999  
“North & South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas,” Cecilia de Torres, New York

1998  
“The School of the South,” Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York

“La Escuela del Sur - El Taller Torres-García,” Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1997  
“A Escola do Sul,” Pavilhão Cultural Renée Behar, São Paulo, Brazil

“La Escuela del Sur,” Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

“Torres-Garcia y 10 Artistas del Taller,” Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Dibujos en papel,” Galería Clavé, Caracas, Venezuela

“El Taller Torres-García,” Museo Central de Costa Rica, San Juan

“Una estética permanente.60 mil años de escultura moderna,” Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain

1996  
“The Still Life,” Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York

“Le Cercle de Torres-García,” Zabriskie Gallery, Paris, France

“Constructive Universalism-School of the South,” OAS Museum of the Americas,

Washington, D.C.

1995  
“65 Years of Constructivist Wood,” Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York.

1994  
“Torres-García y la Escuela del Sur,” Quinta Galeria, Bogotá, Colombia

1993  
“Latin American Artists of the 20th Century,” MOMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1991  
“El Taller Torres-García, The School of the South,” Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin,Texas; Museo de Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico DF; The Bronx Museum, New York

1988  
“The Latin American Spirit: Art & Artists in the U.S., 1920-1970,” Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Fl.; Inst. of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico; El Paso Museum of Art,Texas; The Bronx Museum, New York

1987  
“Latin American Artists in New York since 1970,” A. M. Huntington Gallery, Austin, Texas

1986  
“Torres-García and his Legacy,” Kouros Gallery, New York.

1985  
Group Show, Veksolund, Denmark

1970
“Universalismo Constructivo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,” Buenos Aires, Argentina

1960  
“4 Constructivist works of the El Taller Torres-García,” The New School University, New York

1956  
“Jonges Schilders uit Uruguay,” Stedelljk Museum, Amsterdam

Exposición de Arte Plástico, Museo San Martín Artigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1954  
“Bienal de Arte,” São Paulo, Brazil (Uruguayan Delegation)

1950  
“Torres-García & his Workshop,” OAS Museum, Washington, D. C.

1946  
“Arte de América,” Maison de l'Amérique, Paris, France

1943-

1949  
El Taller Torres-García exhibitions in Uruguay, Argentina, France,

Italy and the United States

 

Public Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin

Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

 

Works in Public Spaces

1996    
Jardín de esculturas Palacio Libertad, Montevideo

1995    
Faret Tachikawa Fund, Tokyo, Japan

1990    
"Muro Bianco" residence of Patricia Cisneros, Caracas.

1983    
Work in marble for an interior patio, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas

1970    
Seven marble works, Alza Laboratory, Palo Alto, California

1968    
Monument in Wood, Paul Friedberg Associates, Architects, Bronx, New York

1968-7  
Cement tower, 40 feet high, Olympic Games Committee, Mexico.

1967    
Mural in cement, P.S. 46, David Todd Associates, Architects, New York

1967  
Mural commission (destroyed), The Toy Building, New York, NY

1960s
Marble work installed on 70th Street in New York City in front of The Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund)

1965    
3 Sculptures: “The Building” (wood), “The Sun Boat” (cement), “Underpass” (cement), Wittlessey, Conklin and Rossant Architects, Reston, Virginia

1960  
Mural in polished brick, Medical Center, Queens, New York

1959  
Mosaic, The New School University, New York

 
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