JUAN URBINA

Born in Caracas on August 21, 1955

He is an advisor for “El Universal newspaper campaign “Support to Venezuelan Fina Arts Artists”

He is a Founding member of “Fundacion Cultural Artistas de Petare (Caracas)

STUDIES:

1982-84 Painting and Drawing

Cristobal Rojas School of Fine Arts

1984-85 Engraving

Cristobal Rojas School of Fine Arts

WORKSHOPS:

Skin.

Cristobal Rojas School of Fine Arts

1989 Outdoor painting workshops

City Hall for the District of Sucre.

Sculpture: techniques and modelling.

Sofia Imber Contemporary Museum of Fine Arts (Caracas)

1990-01 Restoration workshop.

Cristobal Rojas School of Fine Arts

MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

1979 Painting, Casa de la Cultura ; German U. Lira, Petare (Caracas)

1980 Painting, Subway Gallery

1981 Painting, Macuto Sheraton Hotel

Engraving, Aragua 9^th National Show Room

1982 Sculpture, Espiral Gallery, EAP, Cristobal Rojas.

1983 Painting, Tito Salas Gallery

1991 Drawing, 5^th Drawing Biennial Exhibition, Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts,

La Rinconada (Caracas)

Painting, International Air Brush Biennial Exhibition

Painting, National Association for Engineers Show Room

Painting, First National Painting Show Room

Painting, Cuatricentenario (Quadricenntennial), Guanare.

1992 International Exhibition for Venezuelan Painters in Spain, Tenerife

Painting, First Collective Exhibition, “El Universal Support to Venezuelan Fine Arts Artists”

Painting, Cristobal Rojas 1^st Show Room of Fine Arts, Los Teques.

Drawing, 7^th Drawing National Biennal

Exhibition, Alejandro Otero Museum of Visual Arts, La Rinconada (Caracas)

Painting, Centro Gallery of European – American Arts.

1993 Painting, Viva Mexico Gallery.

Painting, COP ART Centro Gallery of European-American Arts.

1999 Collective Exhibit, Governorship of the Federal District

Collective Exhibit, Gallery Tito Salas, Petare

2000 Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Hotel Caracas Hilton, Venezuela

2001 “Il Encuentro de Jovenes Artistas y Grandes Maestros”, Grupo Li Centro de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

2002 "Sol to Soul"-Artistic Impressions from Venezuela, Collective Exhibit, SAFECO Insurance, Corporate Lobby Gallery,

Fountain Valley, California, USA

Collective Exhibit of newly acquired works for the permanent collection at the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, CA

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS:

1994 “False Figures”, Contemporary Art Gallery Tito Salas.

1995 “Internal Shipwreck”, Art Studio ‘Rafael Rivas Valiente’ Los Chorros.

1997 “Homage to the Fakir”, UNO Gallery

1998 “Storytellers of America”, La Previsora Foundation

FIA (Hispanoamerican ArtFair), Caracas Hilton

Individual Exhibit , Gallery Hausman, Hamburg, Germany.

1999 Dreams in a Circus, La Previsora Foundation

2000 Avenue Gallery Cleveland, Ohio, USA

2001 “Circus”, Mon Petit Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

AWARDS:

1992 First Prize

At the Painting Show Room, Sucre Autonomous Municipality.

1993 Special Mention

Petare Show Room, Sociedad Maraury

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:

Juan Urbina's work is represented in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach, CA