BIOGRAPHY
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ANGEL OTERO
1981 Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico 
  Lives and works in Brooklyn
   
Training  
2009 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA
2004 Universidad de Puerto Rico
   
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2018 Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
  Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2017 The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, Bronx, NY
2016 Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
  Murmurs, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Born in the Echoes, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong, CN
2015 New Paintings, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
  Lago, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
  Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, E
2014 ANACHRONIC, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Gates of Horn and Ivory, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
  SCAD Museum of Art Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN
  Walter Otero Contemporary, San Juan, PR
  Angel Otero: Material Discover, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2012 The old lansquenet is laughing at us, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
  Angel Otero, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
  Galerie Isa, Mumbai, IN
2011 The Dangerous Ability to Fascinate Other People, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
  Memento, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2008 Cooking Boogaloo, Contemporary Art Workshop Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Angel Otero, Recent Paintings, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Revelando Enigmas, Galeria Prinardi, San Juan, PR
   
Selected Group Exhibitions 
2018 Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts Columbus, OH, 
2017 Art Goes Logomo, Logomo, Turku, FI
2017 What's Up NEW YORK, curated by Lawrence Van Hagen, New York, NY
2016 SPLOTCH, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
  We've Been Hiding Too Long, David Achenbach Projects, Wolkenburg, DE
  Surface Area, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
  Nexo / Nexus: Latin American Connections in the Midwest, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2015 Civilization and Its Discontents: SAIC Alumni Exhibition, Selections from 1985-2015, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  The Fire Next Time, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SP
  Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
  Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  Horizon, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong, CN
  PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Between Worlds, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, IN
  Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Mystic Fire, Paradise Row, London, UK
  Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX 
2013  10 Under 40, Istanbul '74, Istanbul, TR
  Amor Fati, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 
  PAINT OFF, PAINT ON, Halsey McCay Gallery, East Hampton, NY 
  A Pinch of Saffron, Dash of Vermouth, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY 
  Prague Biennale 6, Prague, CZ 
  Istanbul '74, Istanbul, TR
  Transforming the Known, works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Hague, NE
  XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, NY  
  On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte, Les Palmas de Gran Canaria, E
  Farewell Rodney,curated by Rashid Johnson, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel  
2012  Sotheby's S2 Gallery, New York, NY 
  The Sound of Painting, Palazzo Saluzzo-Paesana, Turin, IT
  Surface in Volume, Luce Gallery, Turin, IT
  Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2011  The Second Seating for the Last Supper, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, E
  It Ain't Fair, OHWOW, Miami, FL
  American Patrons of the Tate and W Magazine, Kreemart, New York, NY
  Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KA
  Art Club on Dover Street, London, UK
  NY: New Perspectives, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
  The [S] Files/The Street Files, El Museo’s 6th Bienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2010 Misericordia, curated by Birte Kleeman, Prism, Los Angeles, CA
  Touched, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2009 Constellations, curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
2008 New Wave, curated by Christian Viveros-Faune, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
  Fridge, Normal Projects Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Latino Nation, USA, University Museum, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
  New Insight Exhibition, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
  Group Painting Exhibition, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 You Are In My Space, Gallery G2 and Project Space, Chicago, IL
  Open and Closed, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL
2006 Universality of Art, Galeria Prinardi USA, West Palm Beach, FL
  Tributo a Basquiat Puerto Rico, Galeria Prinardi a Hotel Normandie, San Juan, PR
2005 Visions of Excess, New Space, Chicago, IL
   
Awards  
2009 The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts
2007 Trustee Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  First Place Award and Members Choice Award, Visual Arts Competition
  Civic and Arts Foundation, Union League Club of Chicago
  Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Fellowship Award
2005 Recognition Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago