Sara Modiano
(1951-2010)
Sara Modiano (1951-2010) – An accomplished Colombian-born artist, she demonstrated her professional acumen as a conceptual artist with an impressive forty year career of numerous exhibitions and excellent critical reviews. Modiano established her reputation in the fields of Painting, Installation, Sculpture and Performance Art. Modiano created a body of work which is part of Colombia’s national patrimony.
Her work has been displayed in solo shows and group exhibitions in noteworthy galleries and museums around the world, including France, Spain, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Hungary, Australia and the United States. She received numerous awards and prizes for her work and represented her country of Colombia at Biennale exhibitions in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Australia.
Modiano’s insights on simplicity as a fundamental factor in the essence of the human being and as a vital condition of existence are of great importance. The art world agrees that her qualities as an artist and her teachings as a person are a legacy that have much to contribute to generations to come.
Education
1967- 1969 School of Fine Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
1969- 1971 School of Fine Arts, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia
Awards
1978 XXVII Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
1976 XXVI Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales y Salón Regional, Zona Norte, Cartagena, Colombia
1976 Adquisición V Abril Artístico, Museo de Zea, Medellín, Colombia
1975 Award of Excellence II Chile Biennale from the University of Chile
1975 Honorary Mention, Salón de las Artes Visuales, Valparaiso, Chile
Art Biennales
1984 V Art Biennale, Sydney Australia
1981 XVI Art Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1981 IV Art Biennale, Medellín, Colombia
1975 II Art Biennale, Valparaiso, Chile
Solo Exhibitions
2004 CUBE II: Multi Media Art Experience “Art Loves Design”, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida
2004 Featured Artist, Art Miami 2004, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida
2003 CUBE I: Multi Media Art Experience “Art Loves Design”, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida
2003 La Resistencia de L’Art, Mallorca, Spain
1982 Quintero Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
1979 Galeria de la Oficina, Medellín, Colombia
1979 Centro Colombo Americano, Barranquilla, Colombia
1975 Belarca Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1974 Barrios Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
Group Exhibitions
2012 BePART Miami Art Auction, Miami, Florida
2012 Concerning the Spiritual in Art - Homage to Sara Modiano, Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
2012 Homage to Sara Modiano, Bal Harbour Art Nights, Bal Harbour, Florida
2008 Bale Latina: Artist Lounge, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2008 Auction Exhibition Contemporary Latin American Art, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Los Angeles, California
2008 Extended Boundaries, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C.
2008 IKF Latin American Art Auction, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida
2007 Arte Americas, Miami, Florida, w/ Remy Toledo Gallery (New York)
2007 L.A. Presencia: Latin American Art in The United States, MOLAA, Long Beach, California
2007 Collateral Material, Museo de Casablanca, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2007 IKF Latin American Art Auction, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida
2006 Palm Beach 3, Contemporary Photography w/ Remy Toledo Gallery (New York)
2006 Earth and Art Enigmas, Damien B. Contemporary Art Center, Miami, Florida
2006 Arte Americas, Miami, Florida, w/ Remy Toledo Gallery (New York)
2006 Between Body and Language, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York
2006 IKF Latin American Art Auction, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation, Miami, Florida
2005 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery (New York)
2005 Standing on the Soapbox, City Hall Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
2004 Cube II: Multimedia Art Experience, Art Basel, Miami Beach
2004 Fresh, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida
2004 City of Miami Time Capsule, Miami, Florida
2004 Invited Artist, Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
2003 Cube I: Multi Media Art Experience, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida
2003 Salón Atenas, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
2003 Invited Artist, Premi d’ Arts Plastiques, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2002 Invited Artist, Premi d’ Arts Plastiques, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1986 Contemporary Colombian Art, The Mall Gallery, London, UK and Brussels, Belgium
1985 100 Años de arte colombiano 1886-1986 (100 Years of Colombian Art 1886 – 1986), Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia
1984 International Mail Art Exhibit, Club of Young Artists, Budapest, Hungary
1984 Colombia en tres dimensiones (Colombia in 3 D), Museum of Modern Art Bogota, Colombia
1983 Aspectos de lo tridimensional (Aspects of the Tridimensional), Museo de Arte La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
1983 ARCO Madrid, Quintero Gallery, Spain
1982 Women of the Americas – Emerging Perspectives, Kuoros Gallery and Center for International Relations, New York
1982 Five Colombian Artists, Espacio N.O., Chaves Gallery, Portoalegre, Brazil
1980 Arte en los 80 (Art in the 80’s), Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia, Museum of Modern Art, Pereira, Colombia and Garces Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia (1981)
1980 Salón Atenas, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
1979 Arte contemporáneo de la costa, (Contemporary Art from the Coast), Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia
1979 Vanguard Art Festival, Barranquilla, Colombia
1978 9 Women Artists of Colombia, World Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.
1978 International Art Exhibition in Amiens, Picardie Museum, Amiens, France
1978 Salón Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
1977 Los novísimos de Colombia (The Newisms from Colombia), Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1977 40 artistas mujeres (40 Women Artists), Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
1976 VI Salón de Artistas Contemporáneos Colombianos, Museo Universitario, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
1976 XXVI Salón Regional y Nacional of Visual Arts, Bogotá, Colombia
1976 V Abril Artistico, Museo de Zea, Medellin
1975 XXV Salón Nacional de Artistas, Bogota, Colombia
1975 IV Salón Nacional de Arte, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia
1975 Los que son (The It), Barrios Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
1974 Nombres nuevos en el arte de Barranquilla (New Names in Art in Barranquilla), Barrios Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
Museum Collections
■ Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
● Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
■ Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
■ Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA
■ Museo de Arte Moderno, Barranquilla, Colombia
Magazine Features
■ Summus, feature story written by Jodie Dinapoli, pp. 29-37; Vol. 10, 2010
■ Artes Santo Domingo, feature story written by Jodie Dinapoli, pp. 164-167; Vol. 25, 2007
■ Arte al Dia Internacional, feature story written by Professor Carol Damian, pp. 60- 64, Vol. 118, 2007
■ Revista Diners, feature story by Mauricio Velez, April 2006
■ Letra Urbana (online), featured artist, story by Mirta Kozolchyk, February 2006
■ Art in America, featured artist, by John Perreault, pp. 37-43, Vol. 5, May 1982
Books and Catalogs
● Los recursos de la imaginación: artes visuales del Caribe colombiano, Eduardo Marceles Daconte, pp. 200-201, 2011
■ L.A. Presencia- Latin American Art in the United States, catalogue, Museum of Latin American Art, pp. 82 and 83, 2007
■ Los Salones Atenas en la Coleccion del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, p. 65, 2003
■ Premi Ciutat De Palma “Antoni Gelabbert” D’arts Plastiques 2001, Casal Solleric, catalogue, pp. 52, 128, 129 and p. 130, 2001
■ Cien años de arte colombiano 1886-1986, Museo De Arte Moderno De Bogota, Benjamin Villegas and Associates, p. 218, 1985.
■ Private Symbol, Social Metaphor, catalogue V Sydney Biennale, Leon Paroissien, 1984
■ Colombia en tres dimensiones (Colombia in Three Dimensions), Jornadas Culturales de Colombia, Introduction by Eduardo Serrano, Impresión OP Graficas Ltda, 1984
■ Aspectos de lo tridimensional en el arte colombiano, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Saenz & Cia Ltda,1984
■ ARCO 84- Arte Contemporáneo, catalogue, Feria Internacional de Madrid, IFEMA, p. 285, 1984
■ Women of the Americas- Emerging Perspectives, catalogue, Center for Inter-American Relations and Kouros Gallery, Caltone Lithographers Inc, 1982
■ XVI Sao Paulo Biennale, catalogue, Museo de Arte Moderno, Zanini Walter, 1981
■ V Salón Atenas, catalogue, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia, Impression Printers Ltda., November 1980
■ Los novisimos colombianos, catalogue, Museo de Art Contemporáneo, Caracas Exposición No. 23, June 1977