Arturo Herrera is a Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based visual artist known for wide-ranging work that is rooted in the practice of collage.
12 Facts About Arturo Herrera
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Arturo Herrera has been recognized with Guggenheim and DAAD fellowships and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Artpace, among others.
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Arturo Herrera's work belongs to the public collections of museums including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Museo Reina Sofia.
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Arturo Herrera was born in 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela and came to the US in 1978.
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Arturo Herrera studied art at the University of Tulsa, producing paintings that mixed abstraction and representation and earning a BFA in 1982.
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Arturo Herrera appeared in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and surveys at the Drawing Center, MoMA PS1 and Walker Art Center.
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Arturo Herrera has produced a diverse body of work in terms of medium and materials, but is best known for his mixed-media collages and works on paper, felt sculptures and site-specific wall paintings.
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The moving-image work Les Noces featured static, black-and-white montages of abstract imagery based on 80 photographs Arturo Herrera shot of cut-up scraps in his studio, which changed rapidly to the rhythms of Igor Stravinsky's ballet-cantata of the same title.
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In later exhibitions, Arturo Herrera has pushed in the direction of more complex work, often privileging form over concept and movement with references to dance and music.
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In two exhibitions, Arturo Herrera anchored several series in modern dance as a point of departure for formal and conceptual experimentation.
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In "From This Day Forward", Arturo Herrera presented dynamic collages, books and wall paintings that layered countless photographs, erratic strips of color and mural-sized shapes and incorporated the gallery space itself within its collaged framework.
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Arturo Herrera has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Art Matters and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.