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Carlos Gutierrez-Solana
b.1947
CARLOS GUTIERREZ-SOLANA is an artist, curator, arts administrator, museum professional, birdhouse maker, and gay man.
As an artist he has exhibited his work and site-specific installations and presented his performances throughout the country since 1972. Originally trained as a figurative/representational painter most of the work has focused primarily – though not exclusively, on the body, specifically the male body, gender, sexuality, space manipulation, mark-making, and AIDS. He has worked, and continues to work, with a variety of materials formats and genres including (but not necessarily restricted to): painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, theater, dance, glass, collage, text, and computer imaging, and now birdhouses.
As a curator he has developed numerous exhibitions and events in a wide range of subjects and media (including hooked rugs; ceramics; architecture; fashion, drawing, installation, photography, painting, sculpture, and AIDS) on both coasts and throughout New York State, but he is probably best known as “that guy who did a miniature golf course created by artists for Artists Space.” Exhibits he has created have been presented at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; The Queens Museum, NY; The Newark Museum, NJ; The Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Jamestown Community College, NY; Lake George Arts Project, NY; and Artists Space and the New York Transit Museum, both in NY, among others.
As an arts administrator and museum professional he has been an exhibit designer/fabricator for the Staten Island Children’s Museum; curator for the Queens Museum; director of the Visual Artists Program for the New York State Council on the Arts – for 10 years; artistic and executive director of Artists Space, and deputy director for the New York Transit Museum. He’s also lectured extensively on a variety of subjects, participated in numerous workshops with both school-age children and adults, and served on many art panels throughout the country.
As a gay man he’s been out since 1970 and was diagnosed HIV+ in 1989. He has been asymptomatic with an undetectable viral load for many years. He is single and leading a happy, productive life.
CARLOS GUTIERREZ-SOLANA
430 West 24th. Street, Apt. 14A • New York, NY 10011-1339
H: (212) 242-3244 • C: (917) 370-8453 • E-mail: maricas2005@nyc.rr.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – Artist
Solo Exhibitions
Cocktales
Bookstore & Bindery Gallery, Point Reyes, California 1975
Group Exhibitions
Time Returns: A Continuous Now
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (May 10 - August 4) 2019
Et Tu, Art Brute?
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY (Nov. 17 - Jan. 28) 2017/18
Love Positive Women
Handmade Paper Valentines created by artists & activists to be mailed to women living with HIV internationally. Program & exhibit sponsored by Intl. Comm. of Women Living with HIV; Visual AIDS; Fire Island Artist Residency and Dieu Donne.
Dieu Donne Art Center, New York, NY (Jan. 25 - Feb. 3) 2016
4/2 X W/2
A Miniature Art Exhibition & Sale (Sep. 19, 2015 - Jan. 30) 2016
Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC2015/16
Art in a Box
Benefit Exhibit for Children at Risk
The Painting Center, New York, NY (December 6 - 31) 2015
Radiant Presence
Digital Slide Show For The 26th Annual Day Without Art (December) 2015
Organized by Visual AIDS. New York City, San Francisco, Miami
(Art Basel) & numerous other art institutions, AIDS service organizations,
and universities nationwide. Curated by: Bill Arning; Ian Alteveer; Chris Vargas; Rae Lewis-Thornton;
Mark S. King; Allen Frame; Maria Mejia; Jack Mackenroth, and Kimberly Drew
Arroz Con Mango: Life Through Cuban Eyes
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (October)2015
Curated by Oriol Gutierrez, Editor-in-Chief, POZ Magazine
Buscando Hogar
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (April)2014
Curated by Tamara Oyola Santiago, Public Health Educator/Activist
What’s in Your Closet
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (March)2013
Curated by Travis Chamberlain, Assoc. Curator of Performance and
Manager of Public Programs, The New Museum, NY, NY
For the birds! Fanciful Follies for our feathered Friends Birdhouses by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana and Mary Hays
Voelker Orth Museum, Flushing, New York (Sept 29 – Nov 18) 2012
PRIDE ETIQUETTE:Works on Gender, Identity, and Sexuality byKenneth Sean Golden, Shari Diamond, Paulo Freitas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,Jonathan Leiter, and Carlos Gutierrez-Solana
Westbeth Art Gallery, New York, NY (June 24 – July 8) 2012
If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (January) 2012
Curated by Stuart Sandford, Artist (London)
Why do you Insist on Flaunting
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (March) 2011
Curated by Sacha Yanow, Director, Art Matters (N.B. Exhibit title taken from my Reverse
Questionnaire series)
Sex, Drugs & Religion
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (September) 2008
Curated by Frank Spinelli, M.D.
Universal Love
Iberoamerican Theater Festival, Teatro Jorge Eliecer Gaitan 2006
Bogota, Colombia
Curated by Jorge Rodriguez, ArteHoy
Compassion, Responsibility, and Independence
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (January) 2006
Curated by NYU Tisch High School Photography Program
Night Work
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (April) 2005
Curated by Sarah Lippek
Fashion Underground: Subway Inspired Accessories
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex 2005
Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY(Exhibition concept and gowns)
Universal Love
Biblioteca Central de Bogota 2004
Bogota, Colombia
Curated by Jorge Rodriguez, ArteHoy
Making the Private Public
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (July) 2004
Curated by Brian Clamp, Director, Clamp Art Gallery, Chelsea, NY
3The Pride Show2
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY (June) 2003
Curated by Jackson
Transitional Space: An Exploration of Adolescent Identity and Homelessness
Visual AIDS Web Gallery, New York, NY 2001
Curated by Navah Steuner & Rene Ortiz of Safe Space
Night of A Thousand Drawings – Benefit Exhibition & Sale
Artists’ Space, New York, NY 2000
Postcards from the Edge – Visual AIDS Benefit Exhibition & Sale
Andrew Krepps Gallery, New York, NY 2000
Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY 2001
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY 2002
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY 2005
CRG Gallery, New York, NY 2011
Cheim & Reid Gallery, New York, NY 2012
Sikkena Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 2013
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2014
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY 2015
Sikkena Jenkins & Co., New York, NY 2016
Desire: Contemporary Photography from the Visual AIDS Archive Project
Robert B. Menschel Gallery, Lightwork, Syracuse University, NY 1999
DIFFA Pink Umbrellas Project: An ABSOLUT Remembrance
NYC Grand Finale. Barney’s New York & Madison Square Park, NYC 1998
The Gun as Image
Florida State Univ. Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL 1997
Engendros: A Photographic Exhibit about Gender and Sexuality
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center, San Antonio, TX 1996
Artists Talk Back: Visual Conversations with El Museo Part III Reaffirming Spirituality
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 1995
The AIDS Cure Project Art Show
King Plow Arts Center, Atlanta, GA 1994
Souvenirs of Lake George II/The Satisfied Customer Show
Lake George Arts Project, New York, NY 1994
Projects: in memory of…
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1993
Night of 1,000 Drawings
Artists Space, New York, NY 1993
Queer
Wessel-O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY 1990
Censored/Censured
Bauhouse Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 1990
Coastal Exchange III
1708 E. Main Gallery, Richmond, VA 1990
HOMO Erotic Art Show
Jim Diaz Gallery, New York, NY 1988
Poetic Visions: Contemporary Latin American Artists
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 1987
Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum – Rutgers University 1987
New Brunswick, NJ (National Traveling Exhibit):
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY;
Miami Univ. Art Museum, Oxford, OH; Museo de Ponce, Puerto Rico;
Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL;
Atlanta College of Fine Arts, GA
Carlos Gutierrez-Solana/Eva Vincent/Jeffrey M. Weiss
San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1975
Carlos Gutierrez-Solana/Oliver Jackson
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1975
Male/Female
University Art Gallery, University of California, Davis 1974
Third World Painting/Sculpture Exhibition
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1974
Lois Freeman/Cathy Goodell/Carlos Gutierrez-Solana/Christin Nelson/Dottie Reid
University Art Gallery, California State University, San Jose 1973
Joel Glassman/Carlos Gutierrez-Solana/Paul Kos
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA 1973
Installations/Performances
Where Have All the Guardian Angels Gone? (Installation)
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 1995
Men Seeking Men. Part I: Call Me (Performance/work-in-progress)
Performance Space 122, New York, NY (Feb 7) 1992
In Memoriam (Installation with window drawing)
1708 E. Main Gallery, Richmond, VA 1990
Bureaucrats on Parade (Readings & Performances)
With: Jewelle Gomez; Gregory Kolovakos; Reuben Sandwich & Gary Schiro.
A benefit for the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force. (Jan.29)
Dixon Place, New York, NY 1989
Poetic Visions/Shattered Dreams (Installation & Performance)
To benefit 3 Western NY AIDS organizations.
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1988
Poetic Visions/Shattered Dreams (Installation & Performance)
Performance during the opening of the exhibition: Poetic Visions:
Contemporary Latin American Artists
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 1987
Art-O-Biography (Installation & Performance)
Performance created for video tape for the exhibition: Outside of Cuba/
Fuera de Cuba at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1987
RECALL: 4 for 4 (Residency, Site Installation & Closing Performance)
Dedicated to the memory of: Domingo Gutierrez de la Solana and,
George Burris; Clifford Schaffer and Neil Ralph.
Long Island University, Southampton Campus, NY 1986
Cambio (Performance)
Study for Cuban-American Interchange
Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL 1982
Drawing/Quarters (Performance)
La Mamelle Arts Center, San Francisco, CA 1976
Action/Drawing (Performance)
San Francisco Art Institute Annual, CA 1976
Figure/Drawing (Installation & Performance)
San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1975
Study for “Figure/Drawing” (Performance)
2790 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 1975
Cut-Out (Performance)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1973
4 in March (Installations & Performances)
A.S.U.C. Studio Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1972
Soft Jesus (Performance)
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1972
Eagle (Performance)
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1972
Publications/Reviews
Contact Sheet # 103 – Exhibition Catalogue: Desire. Pages 24 & 25
August 30 – October 17, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY 1999
Contact Sheet # 97 – 25th Anniversary Edition. Catalogue. Pages 24 & 94
Lightwork, Syracuse, NY 1998
San Antonio Express-News
This City Takes a Giant Step into Nude Age. Commentary. Page 3A
Roddy Stinson Sept. 1, 1996
San Antonio Express-News
Exhibit Examines Gender, Sexuality Exh. Review. Page 7F
Dan R. Goddard Oct. 20, 1996
La Voz de Esperanza
Engendros Exh. Review. Pages 3-4
Kathy Vargas Oct. 1996
San Antonio Express-News
Artists to Talk About AIDS ‘Life’ section
Elda Silva Nov. 2, 1996
El Museo del Barrio
Part III: Reaffirming Spirituality Exh. Catalogue. Page 32
Susana Torruela Leval, Curator 1995
Contact Sheet # 82
Lightwork, Syracuse, NY Fall 1994
High Performance
Virginia is for Lovers by Eric Gutierrez. #51. Page 15 Fall 1990
The Village Voice
Scene and Heard by Robert Atkins. Page 96 Sept. 25, 1990
Rutgers University Press/Miami University Press
Outside of Cuba/Fuera de Cuba Exh. Catalogue. Pages 266-269 1989
High Performance
Performance review by Gary Nickard. #46. Page 65 1989
The Buffalo News
Performance review by Richard Huntington Sept. 10, 1988
Art Papers, Atlanta
To Have and Have Not: Who’s Supporting the Arts Today
Volume 12, # 5. Pages 4 – 15 Sept/Oct 1988
New York Magazine
Making a Difference by Wendy Goodman, with Candace Allenson &
Robert McElroy. Pages 64 – 74 Mar. 21, 1988
The Hartford Courant
‘Magic Realism’ Defines Exhibition of Latin American Artists Sep. 20, 1987
East Hampton Star
From the Studio by Rose C.S. Slivka Jan 8, 1987
Southampton Press
Perspectives: The Transformation of the Gallery at LIU/Southampton
by William Henry Dec 11, 1986
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980
by Thomas Albright. 1975. Page 281 1985
Art News
Vol. 74, # 8. Page 72 Oct. 1975
La Mamelle
Vol. 1, # 2. Pages 26 -28. Interview by Lois Freeman Fall 1975
Art Week
Vol. 6, # 29. Page 6 Sep. 6, 1975
Art Week
Vol. 6, # 22. Page 16 Jul. 12, 1975
Grants/Awards
New York Dance & Performance Award (Bessie) – Special Citation
Dance Theater Workshop, Producer. New York, NY 1991
Art Matters, Inc. 1988 & 1995
Cintas Foundation Fellowship
Institute of International Education 1974-75
Education
University of California, Berkeley, CA MA – 1972
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri BFA – 1970
RESUME.Artist_Full. Updated: October 19, 2012