Julie Saul Gallery

EDUCATION
1988 Massachusetts College of Art, Painting, Media Arts, Boston, MA
1985 Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Painting, Havana, Cuba 1980 National School of Art, Havana, Cuba

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 The Other Side, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything is Separated by Water, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN

2006
Seville Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Sevilla, Spain
New Work Sono Qui, Gallery Pack, Milan, Italy
Traces of Fragmented History, Dubois Institute Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Traces of Fragmented History, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Backyard Dreams, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Pan African Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

2004
3X3 Dak'Art Bienale: Threads of Memory, Dakar, Senegal Talking Pictures, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Elevata, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA Something New, Something Old, Schneider Gallery Chicago Ill

2003
Interiority or Hill Sided Moon, La Marrana, Montemarcello, Italy
One Thousand Ways to Say Goodbye, Henie Onstad, Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

2002 M.M. Campos-Pons, Gallery Pack, Milan, Italy

2001 Nesting, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000 Nesting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

99-00 Meanwhile the Girls Were Playing, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

1998
Unfolding Desires, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Spoken Softly with Mama, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
History of People. . . Part I, "A Tonw Portrait", Lehman College, NJ
M.M. Campos-Pons, Sustenance, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL

1997
Abridor de Caminos, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
M.M. Campos-Pons, New Work, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
When I am not Here/ Estoy Alla, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
When I am not Here/ Estoy Alla, The Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, NY

1996
M.M. Campos-Pons, New Work, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 History of People Who Were Not Heroes, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Recent Work, Miami Dade Community College Gallery, Miami, FL

1993
Let me Tell You, INTAR, Latin American Gallery, New York, NY
Racially Inscribed Body, Akin Gallery, Boston, MA

1992 Como el Cuerpo de un Hombre es un Arbol … / How the Body of a Person is a Tree …, Gallery La Centrale/Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada

1991
Amuletos/Amulets, Burnaby Art Gallery, B.C., Canada
Sangre Negra/ Black Blood, Gallery Burning, Montreal, Canada
A Woman at the border/ Una Mujer en la Frontera, SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, NY

1990
A Woman at the Border/ Una Mujer en la Frontera, Presentation Room JPL Building, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada
Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario, Canada

1989 Isla/ Island, Castillo de la Fuerza/Castle of Royal Force, Havana, Cuba

1988 Erotic Garden or Some Annotations on Hypocrisy/ Jardin Erotico, Kennedy Building Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

1985 Acoplamientos/ Coupling, Gallery L, Havana, Cuba

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
Dispersed, MoAD, San Francisco, CA
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, Smithsonian Museum, WA, DC

2005
Getting Emotional, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Pan African Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
RAMPA - Signaling New Latin American Art Initiatives, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Some Color: A Color Photography Exhibition, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Dreaming Now, The Rose Museum, Brandeis, Waltham, MA
Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
Dispersed, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA

2003
Dak'Art, The Biennial of Contemporary African Art, 6th edition, Dakar, Senegal Visualizing Diaspora/ Constructing Self, GASP Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Brookline, MA
De lo que soy/ Of what I am, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Remberence Fields, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Inside/ Outside, Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Only Skin Deep, ICP, New York, NY

2002
Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Portrait as Performance, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA

2001
Authentic/ Ex-centric: Africa in and Out Africa, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum Eki, Kyoto, Tkamatsu City Museum of Art Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan

2000
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Visibility, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Likeness of Being, Contemporary Self Portraiture by 60 Women Artists, DC Moore Gallery, NY
The Rutgers Center for Innovative Print & Paper Annual Exhibition, NB, NJ
Religion, Contemporary Interpretations by Women, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, NH

1999
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
Uncommon Perspectives, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Spirit Manifest, Religious Imagery in Current Boston Art, Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
Desde el Cuerpo, Alegoria de lo Femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Ritual Acts Videos by Women, Decordova Museum, MA
Crossing/ Traversee, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

1997
Trade Routes, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa Invasion, Saaremaa Biennale, Kuressaare, Estonia
Caribbean Vision: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, Smithsonian, Washington DC
The Constructed Photograph, Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, MA
The Portrait as Object / The Figure as Ground, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum, CT

1996
Skin, M.M. Campos-Pons & Sandy Slone, Crieger/Dane Gallery, Boston, MA
Grifu, Campos-Pons, Carlos Cardenas, Tomas Esson, C.M.A.C., Cambridge, MA
Latin American Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Caribbean Visions: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Center for the Fine Arts, FL
Witness, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal Quebec, Edmontan Art Gallery, Alberta, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Denver Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC,
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
My Magic Pours Secret Libations, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl

1995
Latin American Women Artists, 1915 - 1995, Milwaukee Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, NM
Cuba, La Isla Posible, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Human/ Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1994
Rejoining the Spiritual: The Land in Latin American Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Transcending the Borders of Memory, Norton Gallery & School of Art, FL
1993 Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Witness, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Seventh Triennial Exhibition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Memos for the Next Millennium, Boston Center for the Arts & the Space, Boston, MA
4 Artists Edition, The Space, Boston, MA
The Year of the White Bear, (a project of Guillermo Gomez Peña/Coco Fusco), Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago, IL,
Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
El Corazon Sangrante/ The Bleeding Heart, Fundacion Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

1992
Ways to See: New Art From Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Year of the White Bear, The Walker Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Our View of Struggle, Gallery 44, Center for Contemporary Photographs, Toronto, Canada
Ethos, The York Quay Gallery, Harbor Front, Toronto, Canada
El Corazon Sangrante/ The Bleeding Heart, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada,
Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA

1991
Africa in America, Traveling Show from 4th Biennial of Havana, Spain
IV Biennial de La Havana, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana
El Corazon Sangrante/ The Bleeding Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Senki Sem Sziget/ No Man is an Island, Ernst Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary

1990
Cuba OK, Stadische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
No Man is an Island: Young Cuban Art, Porin Taidesmuseo, Finland,

1989
Contemporary Art from Havana, Riverside Studios, London, UK, Aberstwyth Arts Centre, Dyfed, Wales
Made in Havana, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisborne, Australia
Raices en Accion, Nuevos Artistas Cubanos/ Roots in Action, New Cuban Artists,
North Lima Art Museum, Peru, Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela Lo Erotico en el Arte, University of Havana, III Biennial
of Havana, Cuba laffy Palace, Vienna, Austria The Sculptural Object, Center for the Development of Visual Art, Havana, Cuba
Contemporary Art from Havana, Contemporary Art Museum of Sevilla, Spain

1988
Made in Havana, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Raices en Accion Nuevos Artistas Cubanos/Roots in Action, New Cuban Artists, Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico
Havana in Madrid, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
Exhibition of Cuban Painting, House of Culture, Ibn Khaldoun, Tunisia, Africa
Signs of Transition: 80's Art from Cuba, MOCHA, New York, NY Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA
Cuban Art in Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Creadoras Cubanas/Cuban Woman Creators, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Contemporary Cuban Art, Gallery Tetriakov, Moscow, Russia

1987
The Love, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Veintitantos Abriles, Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba Aire Fresco / Fresh Air, Fund of Good Culture, Havana, Cuba

1986
Africa Inside Cuba 6 Fine Artists, (Bedia, Lam, Mendive, Olazabal), Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba,
National Museum of Anthropology, Luanda, Angola 10 Años del ISA, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
ARA OKO, Museum of Guanabacoa, 2nd Havana Biennial, Cuba

1984
13 of March Exhibition, University of Havana, Cuba
Salon III of Small Formats, Gallery L, Havana, Cuba
Higher Institute of Fine Arts Exhibition, First Havana Biennial, Cuba

1983 13th of March Exhibition, University of Havana, Cuba

1980 Four Young Creators, (Marta M., Perez B. Regina F., Eidania Perez, M. M. Campos-Pons), Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba

COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
The Fog Museum Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Arts, FL
The Good Culture Fund, Havana, Cuba
Heine Kunstalle Oslo Norway Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
The Mac Arthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of the National Center of African American Artists, Boston, MA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of Fine Arts Havana, Cuba
The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL Polaroid
Polaroid Collection, Boston, MA
Rutgers University Center for Innovative Print and Paper, NJ
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Victoria and Albert Museum London UK
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2004 The Artist Resource Foundation, MA

2002 LEF Foundation, Cambridge, MA

2000 Polaroid Artist Support Program, Boston, MA

1997
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, NY
Visiting Foreign Artist, The Photographer's Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Visiting Artist, Rutgers University Center for Innovative Print and Paper, NJ
Polaroid Artist Support Program, Boston, MA

1995
Ella Jackson Artist and Scholars Fund, Truro Center for the Arts Castle Hill, MA
Nominated for the Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Multimedia Fellowship Installation / Interactive Category, NY
Art Reach 95 Award, National Congress of Art & Desing, Salt Lake City, UT
BAM, Visual Artist Initiative, Finalist

1994-93 Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe College at Harvard, Cambridge, MA New England Foundation for the Arts, Regional Fellowship, MA

1992-91 Foreign Visiting Artist Grant, Media Arts, Canada Council Painting Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

1990 Painting Fellowship, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

1989 Medal of Hono, City of Guanabacoa, Cuba

1986 Honorary Mention - XVII International Festival of Painting, Cagnes Sur Mer, France

1985 Symposium of Scientific Studies, Research Award, Higher Institute of Art, Havana, Cuba

1983 Mention, Painting - 13th of March Competition, University of Havana, Cuba PERFORMANCE AND MULTIMEDIA

2004 Domestic Rhapsody; Getting Emotional, (live performance, 45 minutes) ICA, Boston, MA

2002 One Stich at a Time, (live performance, 60 minutes) Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway

1998 Intervention, (live performance, 15 minutes) Art in General, New York, NY

1995 Letter to My Mother, (live performance, 45 minutes), The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

1994
Letter to My Mother, (live performance, 45 minutes) Colloquium Room, The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
Letter to My Mother, (live performance, 45 minutes) Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Foto Fest, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
The Seven Powers Come by the Sea, (live performance 30 minutes), Miami Dade Community College, Gallery North, Miami, FL

1993
La Voz del Silencio/ The Voice of Silence, (live performance, 3 hours), The Space, Boston, MA
Baño Sagrado/ Sacred Bath, (3/4" video, 30 minutes), INTAR Latin American Gallery, New York, NY,
Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA

1992
The Seven Powers Come by the Sea, (live performance, 1 hour), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
La Voz del Silencio/ The Voice of Silence, (live performance, 3 hours), Gallery La Centrale/ Powerhouse, Montreal, Canada

1991 Baño Sagrado/ Sacred Bath, (3/4" video, 30 minutes), Commissioned by the Western front Society, Vancouver, Canada

PUBLIC ART COMISSIONS
1999 Not Just Another Day, Donnell Media Center New York Public Library
1990 Space for Love, Permanent installation in Embassy Hotel, Room 44 London, Ontario, Canada
1986 Wall Installation, Hospital Provincial de Pinar del Rio, Commissioned by the Cuban Fund for the Fine Arts, Cuba

PUBLICATIONS
2007
Snodgrass, Susan, "Vestiges of Memory", Art in America, November
Sheets, Hilarie M, "The Persistance of Memory", ARTnews, February
Moore, Allison, "Previews," Artforum, January

2005 Fardy, Jonathan, "A GASP of Fresh Air", ArtsMedia, March- April Edgers, Geoff, "Perchance to Dream", Boston Globe, February 4

2004 McQuaid, Cate " Art Blossoms Around the City", Boston Globe, December 26

2003
Smith, Roberta, "MMCP Back Yard Dreams" New York Times Febrauary 4 Temin, Chrisitine, " Getting Under the Skin", Boston Globe, February 13
Hopkins, Randi, "Mother Nature on the Run", Boston Pheonix, September 10

2001 Temin, Christine. "From Cuba to Boston to Venice." Boston Sunday Globe. July 1