Angel Otero was born 1981. He is a contemporary visual artist specializing in painting.
Otero's work is characterized by an interest in personal history, expressionistic abstraction, and Spanish Baroque painterly traditions. He lives and works in Brooklyn but splits his time between New York and Chicago.
Early life and education
Otero was born and raised in Santurce in
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the jur ...
. At age 24, Otero moved to Chicago to earn a Master's of Fine Arts from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works for the New York City Department of Education, lives in Beacon, New York and studied at Lehman College, CUNY.
Career
His relationship with his family, his life in Puerto Rico, and his personal history figure greatly in his artwork. Stylistically, Otero practices a process-based art that combines painting and assemblage. Otero creates “oilskins, " which are created from paint poured onto glass and peeled off in sheets after drying. These skins are then grafted onto the artist’s canvas or sculpture. Otero combines them with other materials including resin, spray paint, and silicone. Both small and large-scale paintings are created using this method.
Otero has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions. In 2011 he will have his first solo exhibition, entitled ''Memento'', in New York a
Lehmann Maupin Gallery Otero has shown his work in solo exhibitions at the
Chicago Cultural Center
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(2010), Kavi Gupta (2009), the Contemporary Art Workshop Gallery (2008), and the
Union League Club of Chicago (2008). He will also take part in the group exhibition ''The
Files/The Street Files at El Museo's 6th Bienal'', which took place in 2011 at
El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum), is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the Cit ...
in New York. Otero's group exhibitions include ''Misericordia curated by Birte Kleeman'', Prism, Los Angeles (2010); ''Touched''
Lehmann Maupin Gallery(2010); ''Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection'',
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2009); ''New Wave curated by Christian Viveros-Faune'', Galeria Leyendecker, Spain (2008). Otero participated in
Art Basel Miami Beach
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and The
Armory Show, both in 2010. In the previous year, he was awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts.
References
External links
Angel Otero Official WebsiteEl Museo's Bienal: The (S) Files 2011Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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1981 births
Living people
People from San Juan, Puerto Rico
21st-century American painters
Puerto Rican painters
American male painters