Born Cuba, 1952. Lives and works in New York City.

Education
1978 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
"Stardust", Lesley Heller Fine Art, New York, NY
"PROJECT ROOM: IN THE AMERICA(s)...POST", MIART Fair, curated by Omar-Pascual Castillo, Milan, Italy

2007
"pink girl", Gary Marotta Fine Art, Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2006
"Metaplasmic", Gary Marotta Fine Art, Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts

2005
"Black & White", Gary Marotta Fine Arts, Boston, Provincetown, Massachusetts
"mentor/protege" Manuel Pardo & Maggie Simonelli, New York, NY

2004
"Two Cubans in Monterrey", Galeria Pepe Arcaute, Monterrey, México
"Manuel Pardo & Maggie Simonelli", Gary Marotta Fine Art, Provincetown, Massachusetts
"MetaPlasmic", Serendipity, Palm Beach, Florida

2003
"METAPLASMIC", VanBrunt Gallery, New York, New York
"New Works", Serendipity, Palm Beach, Florida
"Metaplasmic: Recent Drawings and Paintings", Main Art Gallery, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton, California

2002
"Le Universe", K.O. Gallery, Mexico City, México

2001
"Le Jardin", Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey, México

2000
"Designer Urns", Burlingham Marotta, Boston, Massachusetts

1999
"From Paradise", Generous Miracles, New York, New York

1998
"Un cubain a Paris", Galerie Piltzer, Paris, France
Burlingham Marotta, Boston, Massachusetts

1997
Tobey Fine Arts, New York, New York
Burlingham Marotta, Boston, Massachusetts

1996
"Mother and I in Technicolor", Griffin-Linton, Venice, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions ( continued )

1992
"Conquest/Consequences", Arch Gallery, New York, New York

1991
"Late 20th Century Still Lifes (the work of Manuel Pardo)",
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York. Feb 19-April 7.

1989
"Still Lives at Last", Helio, New York, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
"pink girl manuel pardo", SCOPEmiami, Gary Marotta Fine Art, Miami, Flordia
"Free Radicals", curated by Omar Pasqual Castillos.GE Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico

2006
"Contemporary Cuban Drawing", Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, New York

2005
"Masaryk: Arte, Moda & Visa", Visa Black and O Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico, 2005
"Incognito", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
"OmniArt: Art Basel Miami", curated by Julia Herzberg, Ph.D, essay by Susana Torruella Leval,
Director Emeritus, Museo del Barrio, New York, Miami, Florida
Contemporary Art Fair (AAF), ParadigmArt, New York, New York

2004
"Incognito", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
"100 Artists see Satan", CSU @ Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton, CA
"Trouble in Paradise", Van Brunt Gallery, New York, New York
"Urban Flora", Generous Miracles, New York, New York
"Only Human", Van Brunt Gallery, New York, New York

2003
"Freehand", Red Dot, New York, New York
"Manuel Pardo. Three Roses", Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, New York

2000
"Arte de América Latina", Wally Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

1999
Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA. November
"Arte de America Latina", Wally Findlay Gallery, New York
ArtMiami, Miami Beach, Florida
"Latin America Actual", Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
"Small/Big Paintings from Latin America", Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
"Mostly Paper", Rose Burlingham-Claudia Baez, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions ( continued )

1998
Chicago Art Fair, Annina Nosei Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Exchange, Rose Burlingham, New York

1997
The Art Exchange, Rose Burlingham, New York

1996
"Codpiece", Griffin-Linton Gallery, Venice, California
"A Labor of Love", curated by Marcia Tucker. The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York (January 20-April 14)
"Exotic Erotik", curated by Gerard Goodrow, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Cologne, Germany

1995
"Temporarily Possessed", Semi-Permanent Collection. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (Sept. 15- Dec 17, 1995)

1994
"Red Windows", Barney's, New York
"Art and Jeans", Pasage de Retz, Paris, France
"Bad Girls West," curated by Marcia Tucker, UCLA, Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1993
"Body Artspace," Hartford, Connecticut

1992
White Columns, curated Jan Avgikos, New York, New York
"Local Fauna", Arch Gallery, New York
"Crisis and Epidemic", Arch Gallery, New York

1991
"Outrageous Desire", Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
"Something Strange", White Columns, New York
"Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions", curated by Susana Torrella Leval, Woodstock Artists
Association, Woodstock, New York

1990
"Lieblingsbilder/ Jo Melom" Traveling exhibition, 68 elf Forderverein Junger Kunst, Cologne,
Germany; The Cult, Vienna, Austria; Kilato Galeria, Budapest

1988
"Ways in Being Gay", Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
"Benefit Auction", The New Museum Of Contemporary Art, New York
"Save the Animals", Benefit Auction, Sotheby's, New York
Group Exhibition, Wilcov/Goldfeder Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions ( continued )

1987
"The Other Man: Alternative Representations of Masculinity", The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York. May 8- June 12 1987.
"Images of Latin American Culture", Travelling exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York;
East Carolina University Gallery, North Carolina
"Paper, Paper, Paper", Helio Galleries, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Royce Gallery, Miami, Florida
"Homenaje al Afro Latino", Museo del Sol, Washington, DC
"Surface Tension", Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York

1986
"Caribbean Art/ African Currents", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY
"Benefit Auction", The Organization of Independent Artists, New York
Group Exhibition, Schreiber/ Cutler, New York

1985
Group Exhibition, Neo Persona Gallery, New York
"Benefit Auction: Mexican Relief", Christie's, Mexico City, México
"10 Years at Cayman Gallery", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY

Lectures
"How to build a career in spite of…?"
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

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Cal State @ Fullerton, California
Cal State @ Fullerton, California
SUNY Purchase, New York

Bibliography: Articles, Reviews, Essays & Catalogs
Hirsch, Faye. "Marcia Tucker, 1940-2006", Art in America, December 2006.
Loecke, John. "The Message is the Medium", Gotham Magazine, photographs by Laura Moss,
November 2004.
Sierra, Justo. "Masaryk: Arte, Moda & Visa", exhibition catalogue, Mexico City: Visa Black and
O Galeria, 2005.
iDe una vez! , A College Course for Spanish Speakers. Fabian Samaniego, Francisco Rodriguez
and Nelson Rojas. Houghton-Mifflin Co.: Boston, New York, 2008.
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100 Artists See Satan, Arts & Leisure Section, Museum Listings, Orange County Register,
Sunday, August 1, 2004.
"Two Cubans in Monterrey", El Norte, Culture Cultura, March 3, 2004.
"Un Cubain a Paris", Le Figaro, Paris, France, 1998.
The New Art Examiner, Review, Late 20th Century Still Lifes, March 1991.
VOICE, June, 30, 1998, pg. 5 & 66.
-Vogue, Mexico, February 2004.
Castillos Omar Pasqual. "Radicales Libres", exh. catalogue, GE Galeria, Mexico. 2007
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Goodrow, Gerard A. "Four Positions on Sexuality in the Art of the Nineties." Exotik Erotik, exh.
cat., Cologne, Germany: Ursula Blickle Foundation, 1996.
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