alicia penalba - Pan American Art Projects

ALICIA PENALBA
1913-1982
Born San Pedro, Argentina
Died Paris, France
Sculptor. She also designed tapestry and carpets produced by Manufacture des Gobelins, foulards, jewels
porcelain made by Sevres. Also made collages, serigraphy and lithography.
EDUCATION
1950-1953
Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
1948-1950
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
1944-1946
Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1930-1934
Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1982
Solo Exhibition. Museé de Beaux-arts, Chaux de Fonds
1980
Sculpture Exhibition. Mairie de Vernier Park, Saint Gall
Sculpture, Collage and Lithography. Artcurial gallery, Paris, France
Sculpture and Lithography. M. Ferrari Gallery, Brescia
1978
Solo Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1977
Penalba. Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Sculpture and Lithography Exhibition. Carmen Martinez Gallery, Paris, France
Solo Exhibition. Villand Galanis Gallery, Paris, France
1975
Penalba : sculptures. Artel Galerie, Genève
1966
Solo exhibition. Bonino Gallery, New York
Solo exhibition. Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
1965
Penalba. Gallerie Creuzevault, Paris, France
1964
A. Penalba. Retrospective. Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
A. Penalba. Retrospective. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven
A. Penalba. Retrospective. Stadistiches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich
1962
Solo exhibition. Museo de Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Solo exhibition. Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago
1961
Penalba. Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich
1960
Solo exhibition. Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris, France
Solo exhibition. Otto Gerson Gallery, Paris, France
1959
Solo exhibition. Fine Arts Associates Gallery, New York
1957
Solo exhibition. Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
A Forest of Sculptures. The Simon Spierer Collection - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC),
Bucharest
2006
Accrochage. Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Arena der Abstraktion. Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Accrochage d'été. Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
2003
Un jardin secret. Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc- Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La
Louvière
2002
Sculptures et Dessins . Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
1995
Des sculpteurs et la tapisserie : 20 ans d'abstraction : Arp, Calder, Adam, Hadju, Gilioli, Ubac, Penalba.
Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers
1979
9th Bienal Internationale de Tapisserie. Lausanne
Escultura e Vida. Open Air Sculpture Museum, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1966
Birds in Contemporary Art. Bonino Galllery, New York
Collective exhibition. Ecole de Paris, Paris, France
1965
4th Biennale Internazionale di Scultura Citta di Carrara. Carrara, Italy
Contemporary French Sculpultures. 8th Tokyo Biennial. Tokyo, Japan
1964
documenta 3. Documenta, Kassel
Meisterwerque der Plastik. Museo des 20, Viena
Meiddleheim besger Louisiana. Humlebaek
Pittsburg International Exhibition. Carnegie Institute
Selections from the Aldrich Collection. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Schmuck Internationale Ausstellung. Darmstadt
Group exhibition. Museum Boymans-van Beuninguen, Rotterdam, Holland
1962
Sculture nella Citta. Spoleto, Italy
Opening exhibition. Museum des 20 Jarhunderts, Vienna
Modern Sculpture. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
1961
Drawings by Sculptors. Smithsonian Institution, traveling exhibition
The Maremont. Crown Hall, Institute of Design, Illinois
The Maremont. Institute of Technology, Chicago
1960
Group exhibition. Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Rotterdam.
Cent sculpteurs de Daumier a nos jours. Musee d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Etienne
Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Collecting in the granite state. Corrier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
19 and 20 Century Painting and Sculpture. Otto Gerson Gallery, New York
1959
Sculpture Internacionale exhibition. Claude Bernard Gallery, Paris, France
documenta 2. Documenta, Kassel
Group exhibition. Museum Haus Lange. Krefeld
1958
Fifth Biennale d’Yverdon
L’art du XXIeme Siecle exhibition. Charleroi
Sculpture. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Pittsburg International Exhibition. Carnegie Institute
1957
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
Art et Industries Francaise. Kunstegewerbemuseum of Zurich
Sculpture d’un Temps Autre. Musee de Tours
1956
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
International sculpture exhibition. Rodin Museum, Paris, France
Group exhibition. Galerie du Dragon, Paris
Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
Phases. Galerie Kleber, Paris, France
1955
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
Third Biennial of Anvers,
Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
1954
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
15 Sculptors. Galerie Suzanne, Coninck
1953
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
Second Biennal of Sculpture, d’Anvers-Middleheim
1952
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris, France
AWARDS
1974
Prize, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France
1969
Special Prize, Hakone First International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, Ninotaira, Japan
1961
International Sculpture Prize, Sixth Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
COLLECTIONS
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Switzerland