Rodolfo Abularach (January 7, 1933 – August 30, 2020) was a Guatemalan painter and printmaker of Palestinian descent.

Biography

He was born in

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. His work focuses mainly on the human eye. He attended the Escuela Nacional de las Artes Plásticas in

, starting in 1947 and graduating in 1954. Later on, he studied in

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on a Guatemalan government grant, studying at the Arts Student League and Graphic Arts center. His works were featured in a 2019 exhibition at the

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Permanent collections

Permanent Collections (selection) Metropolitan Museum, New York MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York AMA - Art Museum of the Americas (OEA), Washington, D.C. Collection of Chase Manhattan Bank, New York New York Public Library, New York New York Interchem, New York Hammer Museum of Los Angeles, CA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Collection Grundwald Sala Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia Instituto de Cultura Hispánica, Madrid, Spain University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela Sala Mendoza, Fundación Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela Cartón y Papel de México, México, D.F. Museo Cuevas, México DF IDB - Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Colección Leticia Guerrero, Banco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador MUNAM - Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de Guatemala Dirección de Artes, El Salvador Museo de la “Pinacoteca Nacional”, La Paz, Bolivia Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Sao Paulo, Brasil Museo de Arte “La Tertulia”, Cali, Colombia Fleming Museum of Art, Vermont Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), Milwaukee, Wisconsin Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela Lowe Art Museum, Miami Alternative Center for International Arts, New York LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California National Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Consejo Mundial de Grabado, San Francisco, California Museum of Art, Bagdad, Iraq Museum of Art, Cairo, Egypt The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth,Texas Museo Panarte, Panamá Royal Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Museo Del Barrio, New York Banco de Guatemala, Guatemala Museum of International and Contemporary Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad, Norway

Awards

1957. First Prize in Painting: "Central American Contest" Guatemala City 1959. Prize in Drawing, V Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1961. Prize in Drawing, New York University, NY 1963. First Prize in Drawing, "Current Art of America and Spain", Madrid, Spain 1965 First Prize in Painting, "Salon Esso de Jóvenes Artistas", El Salvador, C.A. 1967 First Prize in Drawing, Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela 1969 First Prize in Drawing, IX Festival of Art, Cali, Colombia 1970 Prize in Graphic Arts, Silvermine Guild of Artists, Connecticut Foreign Relations Award, Biennial of American Graphic Arts, Santiago, Chile First Prize in Drawing, National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California First Prize in Drawing, Pan American Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Cali, Colombia 1971 Prize in Graphic Arts, IV International Miniature Graphics Exhibition, New York, NY 1972 Prize in Graphic Arts, II Latin American Biennial of Graphic Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1977 Prize in Graphic Arts, I Biennial of American Art, Venezuela 1980 Special Edition Award and Merit Award, III International Biennial, World Print Council, San Francisco, California 1987 Silver Medal, Latin American Biennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2003 Tribute Municipality of Guatemala; 2010 Tribute "Artist of the Year" from the Rozas Botrán Foundation, Guatemala 2017 Medal of the Orden del Arrayán, Guatemala 2019 Carlos Mérida” Award, Guatemala

Solo shows (more than 100 shows)

1947 Galería Nacional de Turismo, Ciudad de Guatemala 1954 Galería Arcadi, Ciudad de Guatemala 1955 Studies in Pen and Ink, Escuela de Artes Plásticas del Museo Arqueológico de Guatemala 1961 David Herbert Gallery, New York, NY 1966 Sala L.A. Arango, Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia 1967 Galería Schaefer-Diaz, Guatemala City 1969 Bucholz Gallery, Munich, Germany 1970 Galería Colibri, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Galería Vertebra, Cuidad de Guatemala; Graham Gallery, New York, NY; Pyramid Gallery, Washington D.C. 1971 Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia; 1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY 1973 Museo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico; “Sala Estudio Actual” Caracas, Venezuela; Galería Fundación, Caracas, Venezuela 1974 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Ciudad de Guatemala; Galería Pacanis, México D.F.; Galería Forma, San Salvador, El Salvador. 1975 Galería Siglo Veintiuno, Quito, Ecuador; Galería Briseno, Lima, Perú 1976 Balería Echandi, Ministerio de Cultura, San José, Costa Rica; Galería Tague, Managua, Nicaragua; Galería Estructura, Panamá City; Alternative Center of the Arts, Nueva York, NY 1977 Arte Actual de Iberoamerica, Madrid, Spain 1978 Galería San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia; Galería El Túnel, Guatemala City; Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia 1979 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador ; Galería Panarte, Panamá City, Panamá 1980 Galería Partes, Medellín, Colombia 1981 Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia; Moss Gallery, San Francisco, California; Miami Dade Public Library System, Miami, Florida; Galería Arte 80, Panamá City, Panamá 1982 Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia; Borjeson Gallery, Malmo, Sweden; Galería Atenea, Barranquilla, Colombia; Galería Siete, Caracas, Venezuela 1983 Galería Diners, Bogotá, Colombia; Galería Etcétera, Ciudad de Panamá 1985 Museo Ixchel Guatemala City 1986 Galería Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia; Centro Cultural Portales, Cochabamba, Bolivia;Galería Época, Santiago de Chile 1988 Galería del Patronato de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de Guatemala 1989 Galería del Patronato de Bellas Artes, Ciudad de Guatemala; Galería El Túnel, Guatemala City 1991 Galería Plástica Contemporánea, Ciudad de Guatemala; Art Miami 91, Miami, Florida 1992 Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia; Museo Brattlebord, Art Center, Vermont 1994 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá 1996 Esculturas de Rodolfo Abularach, Galería “El Ático”, Ciudad de Guatemala 1997 Galería “Valanti”, San José, Costa Rica; Retrospectiva Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Paiz, Ciudad de Guatemala; Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1999 “Volcanos and other Fires” CDS Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Museo Ixchel (Arte Religioso), Ciudad de Guatemala 2005 Centro Cultural de España y Centros de Formación de la Cooperación Española, Ciudad de Guatemala 2006 Proyecto Cultural El Sitio, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 2007 Centro Cultural de España, Ciudad de Guatemala 2008 Retrospectiva, Museo Santo Domingo, Antigua Guatemala 2010 Galería El Túnel, Ciudad de Guatemala 2011 Museo Rayo, Colombia 2013 Museo Rayo, Colombia 2016 Galería Sol Del Río, Ciudad de Guatemala 2017 Centro Municipal de Arte - Correos, Guatemala 2019 Municipalidad de Guatemala 2020 AMA - Art Museum of the Americas (OEA), Washington DC 2021 Museo nacional Carlos Merida - MUNAM, Ciudad de Guatemala

References

1933 births 2020 deaths Artists from Guatemala City 20th-century Guatemalan painters Guatemalan people of Palestinian descent 21st-century Guatemalan painters Guatemalan printmakers 20th-century printmakers 21st-century printmakers 20th-century Guatemalan male artists 20th-century Guatemalan artists 21st-century Guatemalan male artists 21st-century Guatemalan artists {{Guatemala-bio-stub