Mario Carreño y Morales (May 24, 1913 in Havana, Cuba – December 20, 1999 in Santiago de Chile, Chile) was a Cuban

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. He studied painting at the Academia de San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba from 1925 until 1926. In 1934, he studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain. In 1937 he was a student at the Ecole des Arts appliqués, Paris, France and that same year, at the

Académie Julian The Académie Julian () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907) that was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number a ...

, Paris, France. Among his teachers was Jaime Colson.

Solo exhibitions

* 1930 – ''"Mario Carreño"'', ''Salón de Merás y Rico'', Havana, Cuba * 1947 – ''"Carreño: Recent Paintings"'', ''Perls Galleries'', New York City * 1978 – ''"Mario Carreño. Pinturas"'',

Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas The Museum of Fine Arts ( Spanish: ''Museo de Bellas Artes'' or MBA) is an art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was founded in 1917, and was originally housed in the building now known as the Palacio de las Academias. Its current buildings were ...

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, Venezuela * 2000 – ''"Exposición en Homenaje a Mario Carreño"'', ''Galería de Arte Patricia Ready'', Santiago de Chile, Chile

Group exhibitions

* 1932 – ''"Exposición Única de Pintores y Escultores Cubanos"'', Lyceum, Havana, Cuba * 1943 – ''"The Latin American Collection"'', Museum of Modern Art, New York City * 1944 – " Exhibition of Modern Cuban Painters, March 17, 1944, Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York City * 1951 – ''I

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'', Sao Paulo, Brazil * 1952 – ''XXVI Venice Biennale'',

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, Italy * 1953 – "II

'', Sao Paulo, Brazil

Awards

* 1956 –

Guggenheim International Award The Guggenheim International Award was established in 1956 as "both a recognition of outstanding achievements in the visual arts and an important manifestation of international goodwill". A shortlist of artists and works were selected by juries to ...

, New York City * 1982 –

National Prize of Art of Chile The National Prize of Art of Chile, was created on November 9, 1942. It was awarded yearly since 1944 and alternated the mention among Painting or Sculpture, Music and Theatre. In 1992, it was replaced by the National Prizes of Plastic Arts, Musi ...

, Santiago de Chile, Chile * 1987 – Cintas Foundation Fellowship, New York City

Collections

Many of his pieces are in the permanent collections of: *

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, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee * Metropolitan Museum and Art Center,

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, Florida * Colección D.O.P. by Fundacion D.O.P., Paris * Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, *

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations. History It was founded ...

, Havana, Cuba * Museum of Modern Art, New York City * International Business Machine, New York City * Comesana Family, havana, Cuba * Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia

References

* Mario Carreño: Selected Works (1936-1957), by Jesús Fernández Torna. * Vicente Báez, Virilio Pinera, Calvert Casey, and Anton Arrufat, Editors; ''Pintores Cubanos'', Editors; Ediciones Revolucion, Havana, Cuba 1962 * Jose Veigas-Zamora, Cristina Vives Gutiérrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzón, Dannys Montes de Oca; ''Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century''; (California/International Arts Foundation 2001); * Jose Viegas; ''Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo XX''; (California International Arts 2004); * Eduardo Luis Rodríguez; ''The Havana Guide: Modern Architecture 1925-1965''; (Princeton Architectural Press 2000);

External links

Ediciones Vanguardia Cubana. Libros de Pintura Cubana, Mario Carreño
* www.mariocarreno.com

Artists from Havana Modern painters Cuban contemporary artists Académie Julian alumni 1913 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Cuban painters 20th-century Cuban male artists Naturalized citizens of Chile Male painters {{Cuba-painter-stub