WILFREDO CHIESA BIO
E D U C A T I O N
School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico, BFA, 1972
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2013 The Art Cabinet, Nantucket
2011 Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City 2008 Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge
2006 Biaggi Faure Fine Arts, San Juan
The Art Cabinet. Nantucket 2005 Galerie Swanstrom, Boston The Art Cabinet, Nantucket
Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, Boston 2004 Entre Estudio & Galería, Puebla, Mexico
2002 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York City
Galería Tamara, San Juan 2001 Isole Gallery, Boston
1998 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York City Elite Gallery, Miami
1997 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston 1995 Elite Gallery, Miami
1994 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston 1993 Elite Gallery, Miami
1992 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston 1991 Galería Rojo y Negro, Madrid, Spain
Leonora Vega Gallery, San Juan
1990 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston
1988 Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan
1986 Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan
1985 Galería Artconsult, Panama City, Panama 1984 Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico
Museum of Modern Art, Bogota , Colombia 1983 University of Massachusetts, Boston
1982 San Juan Art Student’s League
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
1979 Thorne’s Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts 1978 Bell Book and Candle Gallery,
San Juan
Cayman Gallery, New York City 1977 La Casa del Libro, San Juan
S E L E C T E D G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2013 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, PR, “Puerto Rico: Apertura al Paisaje| Feroz/Feraz”
2011 Obra Galería, San Juan, 10th Anniversary
Art Cabinet at Sherbourne Hall, Nantucket
2010 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, “Careos/ Relevos”
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, “La Mirada del Tiempo”
Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, “Imagine it Thick in Your Own Hair”
Milk Gallery, New York City, “Stoked on Spring”
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York, Inaugural Exhibition
Art Cabinet at Sherburne Hall, Nantucket, 16 Years of ACN
2009 Art Chicago, Peter Findlay Gallery
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, Pierre Menard Gallery
2008 CIRCA PR, Space Other Gallery
Art Chicago, Peter Findlay Gallery 2007 Scope Miami, Space Other Gallery
Peter Findlay Gallery at Art Chicago
Art Cabinet Nantucket Summer Salon
2006 Biaggi & Faure, San Juan, “Maestros de la Abstracción”
2005 Obra Galería, San Juan, “Maestros de la Pintura Puertorriqueña”
LatinArte Latino, Dallas, Latin American Painters
2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “Latin America on Paper”
Harbor Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston, “Faculty Show”
2000 Galería de Arte La Caja China, “La Música de la Caja”, Seville, Spain
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, “Tesoros de la Pintura Puertorriqueña” Albright-
Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, A Walk through the Paper Forest: Latino Prints and
Drawings from El Museo del Barrio
1997 Museo de Las Américas, San Juan, “Pequeño Formato”
Galería Espacio, San Juan, “Portafolio de Dibujos”
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “The Art of Diversity”
1996 Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC/ Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce/
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, “Chiesa, Hernández Cruz, Irizarry, Suárez”
1995 Galería Espacio, San Juan, “Espacio Cromático” 1993 Elite Gallery, Miami, “Latin
American Spectrum”
Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, “Gallery Artists”
Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, “Preferencia de Artistas”
Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, “Creaciones en
Papel”
1992 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, “Wilfredo Chiesa-Oscar Paez” Elite Gallery,
Miami, “Latin American Spectrum”
Museo de Las Américas, San Juan, “El Portafolio Gráfico en Puerto Rico”
1990 Elite Gallery, Miami, “Latin American Spectrum”
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York City, “Latin-Art ‘90”
Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, “The Reductive Image”
1989 Norwegian International Print Triennale, Fredrikstad, Norway
Boston Center for the Arts, “Above, Beyond and Within”
1988 Istituto per la Cultura e l’Arte, Catania, Italia
The Space Gallery, Boston
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, “Abstract Visions”
1986 International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington DC/ Squibb Gallery, Princeton/Museo
de Historia, Antropologia y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, “Puerto Rican Painting:
Between Past and Present”
First International Painting Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
1985 International Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Noruega
AARON Gallery, Washington DC, “First Latin American Annual”
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, “Bienal de Pintura”
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico/ Museo del Barrio, New York City, “25 Años de Pintura
Puertorriqueña”
José M. Lázaro Library, University of Puerto Rico, “El Cartel Abstracto en Puerto Rico”
1984 The St. Paul Insurance Company, Minnesota, “Latin American Art” 1983 La Caixa, Ibiza,
España, “Objetos”
Museo del Arsenal, San Juan, “Congreso de Artistas Abstractos”
Fourth Biennial of Contemporary Music, San Juan 1982 The Chase Manhattan Bank, San
Juan, “Arte Actual”
Bank of Boston, Boston, “The Massachusetts Banking Fine Arts Collection: Water”
Student’s Center Gallery, University of Puerto Rico
Northeastern University, Boston, “Encuentros”
Bank of Boston, Boston, “Landscapes Reinterpreted” Prospect Park, Brooklyn, “Art Across
the Park”
1981 Sutton Gallery, New York City, “Paper Assemblages” Fourth Biennial of Art, Medellín,
Colombia
Henry Street Settlement, New York City
Sutton Gallery, New York City, “One of Each”
1980 The Children’s Museum, Boston, “The Islands Project” Boston Center for the
Arts University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Faculty Show”
1979 Fourth Biennial of Latin American Prints, San Juan
Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, “Gallery Artists”
University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Faculty Show”
1978 Center for Inter-American Relations, New York City Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston,
“Artist Books”
1977 Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
UNESCO, San Juan, Painting Annual
1974 Third Biennial of Latin American Prints, San Juan
1973 Museo de Bellas Artes de Puerto Rico, San Juan, “Reyes, Chiesa, Bonilla”
1971 Museo de Historia, Antropologia y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, “Seis
Artistas Jóvenes”
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Harvard University
Lowe Museum of Art, Miami
University of Massachusetts, Boston The Boston Public Library
The New York Public Library Princeton University
The Library of Congress
El Museo del Barrio, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
Museo Vial, Roldanillo, Colombia
Museo de Arte de Medellín, Colombia
Biennial of Medellín Collection, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
International Print Museum, Fredrikstad, Norway
Istituto per la Culture e l ́Arte, Catania, Italia
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
La Casa del Libro, San Juan
Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña, San Juan
Interamerican University, San Juan
P U B L I C A R T A N D C O M M I S S I O N S
ALBUS. INDIGO. Two Large-scale Painting commissioned by Congress Group ventures for
33 Arch Street, Boston, 2004
RES IPSA LOQUITUR, Mural Painting, School of Law, University of Puerto Rico, 1988
BLANCO ESPAÑA, Large-scale Painting commissioned by The Massachusetts Institute of
Spain, Madrid, 1987
LA ROSA NERA, Public Installation with Marcos Irizarry, Campo di Santa Margarita, Venice,
Italy, 1984
AURORA, Large Scale Hand-Made Paper commissioned by The Bank of Boston, 1993
PUEBLO VIEJO, Billboard, Museo Vial, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia, 1982
SALITRE, Public Installation, Prospect Park, New York City
A R T I S T S ' B O O K S
VISIÓN APARENTE, Nine Intaglio Prints, Boston, 1988
TANGO, Seven Silkscreen Prints with Poems by Anthony Petrosky, Boston, 1982
RELATOS DE UN PAISAJE ASESINADO, Twelve Silkscreen Prints with Poems by Tomás
López Ramírez and music of Rafael Aponte-Ledée, San Juan, 1976
D I S T I N C T I O N S
Artist In Residence, Boston Center for the Arts, 2003-2004 Member, Academy of Art, Ciencia
e Historia de Puerto Rico Artist In Residence, The Artist Foundation, Boston, 1982 Fellow,
The McDowell Colony, 1981
Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Council for the Arts, 1980 First Honorary Prize, Painting,
UNESCO, San Juan, 1977
Grant, Fondo de Becas para las Artes Plásticas, San Juan, 1976 Grant, Fundación Martínez-
Cañas, San Juan, 1975 opi
First Prize, Print, United Federal Savings, San Juan, 1974
Honorary Prize, Print, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, 1973
First Prize, 450th Anniversary of San Juan, Casa de España, San Juan, 1973
P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
Review Board, Drawing, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2004
Public Art Commission, Cambridge Arts Council, Massachusetts, 1997-2001
Board of Directors, The Space Gallery, Boston, 1989-1993
Visual Arts Advisor, Dante Alighieri Society of Boston, 1990
Review Board, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, 1990
Panelist, Symposium, “Latin America Awakens”, Massachusetts College of Art, 1989
Guest Artist, Graduate Program, Painting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
Panelist, Symposium, “25 Años de Pintura Puertorriqueña”, Museo del Barrio, New York
City, 1986
Review Board, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, 1986
Guest Artist, Montserrat College of Art, Massachusetts, 1980
Advisory Board, Massachusetts Council for the Arts, 1980
Chief, Division of Painting, Centro Nacional de las Artes, San Juan, 1975
T E A C H I N G
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Faculty, Art New England Summer Workshops at Bennington College, Vermont, 1996 and
2000
Adjunct Faculty, Wellesley College, 1987
Instructor, Liga de Arte, San Juan, 1976-1977