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R A F A E L S Á N C H E Z
Havana, Cuba, 1960
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
duCret School of the Arts
One Person Exhibitions:
Unfinished Masterpiece Casino X, Las Vegas, 2008
Balloons Umbrellas Turntables Participant Inc, NYC, 2004
¿ Puff ? Z Deli, NYC, 1997
Unfinished Masterpiece Barneys Windows, NYC, 1997
Sugar Paintings Hoboken Dental Specialties, Hoboken, 1995
Teatro de la Cabeza Foundation Elba, Nijmegen, NL, 1993
R.S. Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, 1991
Unfinished Masterpiece D' Clic Arts Club, Paris, 1989
Black White Paintings, etc. Finck Residence, NYC, 1987
R.S. Hallwalls, Buffalo, 1987
Look Don't Touch Aljira Arts, Newark, 1985
Group Exhibitions:
Millennium Magazines Museum of Modern Art, NYC, 2012
Strange Birds Center for Book Arts, NYC, 2012
The (S)treet FilesEl Museo del Barrio, NYC, 2011
Double-Bill Art in General, NYC, 2010
Küf / Mold Rotterdam, 2009
Istanbul, 2007
Ghent, 2008
Unsteady Studio 1.1, London, 2006
This Hard, Gem-like Flame Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, 2005
The Record Show Exit Art, NYC, 2001
The Pineal Body w / Gail Thacker at Jenny's Place, NYC, 2001
Fashioned White Box Gallery, NYC, 1998 / Philadelphia, 1998 Alternatives Hallwalls, Buffalo, 1995
Mob @
Speedway Speedway Gallery, Boston, 1993
The Naming of the Colors White Columns, NYC, 1993
Dress Codes Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1993
Mob @
620 Pavonia Ave. C6, Jersey City, 1992
Selections Artists' Space, NYC, 1990
Mob @
3 Boys from Italy Pizzeria, Jersey City, 1989
Performance & Theatre Works:
Fandango! w / Jim Fletcher, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2008
Rafael Sánchez & Rafael Sánchez w / Rafael Sánchez, Gershwin Hotel, NYC, 2007
TABLE project w / Kathleen White, Gene Frankel Theatre, NYC, 2006
The Three Voices Performa, Participant Inc, NYC, 2005
REVOLVER Participant Inc, NYC, 2004
Subdivisions for Miss Gowanus, Red Dive, Gowanus Canal, Brklyn, 2003
Les Fleurs des Vents Fruit Farm Film Festival, McMinnville, OR, 2002
Market Theater, Cambridge, 2001
Gerswhin Hotel, NYC, 2001
Dark Pearl Armada Festival, Nijmegen, NL, 2000
The Libation Bearers Thread Waxing Space, NYC, 1999
Dream On Jackie 60, NYC, 1997
Water Boy Jackie 60, NYC, 1997
Feed the Birds Extrapol, Nijmegen, NL, 1996
Interlude a garden in Brooklyn, 1996
Rising for the Moon Jackie 60, NYC, 1996
A Goat's Song X-Teresa, Mexico City, 1995
Boog-a-loo Rushmore Festival, Orange County, NY, 1994
Bedtimestory Rushmore Festival, Orange County, NY, 1993
Filmography:
Rough Boy 5min. video with R. D. Realmuto, music: ZZ Top, 2008
REVOLVER 30min.performance video edit w / Laura Parnes, 2005
Rooftop Balloon Inflation
Filming Experiment Event w / Glen Fogel, duration variable, film & video, 2003
Lazy 7min. video, music: Deep Purple, 2003
Wuthering Heights 15min. super 8mm to video edit w / Yael Bitton, 1999
Stormtrooper in Stilettos 10min. video montage, music: Queen, 1998
Little Prayers 15min. super 8mm to video edit w / Claire Barnier, 1995
Awards & Residencies:
Braziers Artists Workshop, UK, 2004
Creative Capital Foundation, 2002
Braziers Artists Workshop, UK, 1999
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 1992
Usine Ephemere, Paris, 1989
Selected Bibliography:
ferran el otro, Pipa, "If The Medium is The Message, What Happens When the Medium(s) Disapear(s)?" is. # 1, Barcelona, 2012
alLuPiNiT (the New York City environmental magazine) co-editor w/ Kathleen White, vol.1: Luther Price, Winter 2008; vol. 2: Rats !!!, Fall 2008; vol. 3: TABBOO!, Winter, 2009 -10; vol. 5: Hunter Reynolds / Survival AIDS, Spring 2011
Rafael Sánchez / Sur Rodney Sur, Visual Aids Web Gallery, "The Architecture of Loss / Mark Morrisroe 1959-1989". April, 2011
Goldberg, Roselee, PERFORMA, New Visual Art Performance, Rafael Sánchez / The Three Voices, pg. 65, Performa NY / Art Publishers, 2007
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, “Rafael Sánchez: Balloons Umbrellas Turntables” October 1, 2004
Smith Regina, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, “Squaring the Circle: The Invocations of Rafael Sánhez” is. no. 62, Spring 2001
Jackson, Susan, Time Out New York, “Sheer Art Attack” is. no. 172, January 7-14, 1999
Adams, Brooks, The Print Collector’s News Letter, “ New Humanist Photography” Vol. XXVII #2, 1996
Kenny, Kay, The Jersey Journal, “Art Makes the Medicine Go Down Easier”, April 7, 1995
Arning, Bill, The Naming of the Colors, exhibition catalogue, White Columns, Kirby Gookin co-editor, 1993
Zimmer, William, The New York Times, “Painting with Peanut Butter and Jelly”, December 29, 1991
Sánchez, Rafael, “Panorama with Hood Ornament” Boston School, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Lia Gangitano editor, 1995
Collaborations, Plays, Films, Projects, Screenings, etc:
Dolmen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art & Citizenry
2011, Ms. Bette Midler; 2012, Dr. Steve Cannon
BOOKS RECORDS TAPES
w / Kathleen White, in.2004, ongoing >
Somewhat Portable Dolmen
w / Kathleen White, in. 2007, ongoing >
A Song For You
Anthology Film Archives 2002, 2004; Gershwin Hotel, 2006, 2009
People Without History
a play by Richard Maxwell, NYC Players, Performing Garage , 2009
Crime or Emergency
a play by Sibyl Kempson & Mike Iveson, PS 122, 2009
Ads
a projection work by Richard Maxwell & Michael Schmelling, NYC Players, PS 122, 2009
Monuments
a film by Redmond Entwistle, 2010
Eclipse
Robert Whitman Projects, DIA, NYC, 1983