KUKULI VELARDE

Born: 1962, Cusco, Peru

Studio: Philadelphia, PA

EDUCATION

1988-92              BFA Hunter College, University of New York. Magna Cum Laude.

AWARDS

2009                   USA Knight Fellow. Santa Monica, LA.

2005                   Special Award. EV+A 2005. Limerick, Ireland.

2003                   PEW Fellowship. Visual Arts. Philadelphia, PA. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant in Visual Arts. Philadelphia, PA.

2000                   Anonymous is a Woman Award, New York, NY.

1999                   Leeway Foundation, Window of Opportunity Award. Philadelphia, PA.

1997-98             Artist in Residence, Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Fellowship, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.

1997                   Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Sculpture Award. New York, NY.

1996                   Artist in Residence, Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellowship in the Arts, Institute for the Humanities,                                  

                            University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1993                   Recognition for Freedom of Expression, Andy Warhol Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Merce Cunningham

                            Foundation, etc., MOMA. New York, NY.

1992                   Bronx Council of the Arts Fellowship, New York, NY.

EXHIBITIONS

+Traveling   *Catalogue

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010       Patrimonio, Barry Friedman Ltd, New York, NY

2007       Plunder Me Baby, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY

2001       Isichapuitu. John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI.

1999       Kukuli Velarde: From Isichapuitu And Pure Love Series. International Biennial of Lima, Peru.

1998       Isichapuitu. John Elder Gallery, New York, NY.

                Isichapuitu (work in progress) Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.

                Metamorphosis. Long Island University, Long Island, NY.

1996       Homage To My Heart, Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1995       Homage To My Heart, INTAR, New York, NY.

1993       Underdevelopment In Progress: 500 Years, Installation with Ana Ferrer, Soho 20. New York, NY.

                New Ceramic Sculpture, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, NY.

1992       Underdevelopment In Progress: 500 Years. Installation with Ana Ferrer (censored), Institute of Technology, New York, NY.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009       Uber Portraits. Bellevue Museum of Arts. Bellevue, Wa.

2007       Man and Beast, Garth Clark Gallery Project Space, Long Island City, NY

2005       EV+A 2005. International Exhibition. Limerick, Ireland.

2003-4    Form and Contents: Corporal Identity- Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany+

2003       Home/land: Artists, Immigration, and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

                De lo que soy/Of what I am. Lehman College Art Gallery. Bronx, NY.

2002       Dialogue-Installations. Taller Boricua Gallery. New York, NY.

2001       Monsters and Wonders. De Cordoba Museum. Lincoln, MA.

                Ceramics, Cultural Connections. Plattsburg State Art Museum, Plattsburg, NY.

2000       Glimpse to the Invisible, NCECA Invitational, Arvada, CO.

1999       Looking in the Mirror: Aspects of Figurative Ceramics. Riley Hawk Galleries. Columbus, OH.

1997       Art-Making, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY.

                Shades of Blue: 12 Residents of Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA.

                Four Women in Form, Hostos Art Gallery, New York, NY.

1996       Artists from the Bronx, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.

                Domestic Partnerships: New Impulses in Decorative Arts from the Americas. Art in General. New York, NY.

                Labor of Love. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

1995       Dialogues of Peace, Palais des Nations, Ariana Park, Geneva, Switzerland.

                Ceramists of Color, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, New York, NY.

                Heroes and Heroines, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts. NJ.

1994       Foire Internationale d'Art Latinoamericaine; Carla Stellweg Gallery. Brussels, Belgium.

1994       Transformers, An independent Curators Inc.+.

                Beyond Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants, Bronx Museum of Arts, NY.

                Artists Select Artists, 20th Anniversary of Artists Space, New York, NY

                Reclaim, Recover, Reaffirm: A 25 Year Dialogue "Reclaiming History Through Contemporary Art". El Museo del                         

                Barrio. New York, NY.

1993       Intimate Lives: Women and Their Work, Austin, TX.

               Testimonio. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

               Three Video Installations, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.

                Longwood Studio 1992-93 Fellowship Artists, Bronx Council on the Arts, NY.

1992       Uncommon Ground: 23 Latin American Artists, SUNY New Paltz, NY.

                New Talent, Carla Stellweg Latin American and Contemporary Art, NY.

                Remerica America, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY.

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Catalogues

Barros, Ricardo. Facing Sculpture: Portfolio of Portraits, Sculpture and Related Ideas. (2004)

Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. (Themes and Hudson, New York, London, 2001)

Mathieu, Paul. Sex Pots: Eroticism In Ceramics. (2003)

Indych, Anna. Kukuli Velarde: Cantaros de Vida. (John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, 2001)

Peterson, Susan. The Art and Craft of Clay.

Periodicals

Bonami, Francesco. Global Art: Kukuli Velarde. (Flash Art, November, 1993)

Henneberger, Melinda. Redefining 'Immigrant' In the Bronx, (The New York Times, February 20, 1994)

Indych, Anna. Kukuli Velarde: Syncretizations: Re-conquering the Conquest. (Sulfur, 1995)

Koplos, Janet. Kukuli Velarde at Garth Clark, (Art in America, February 2008)

Miller, Ivor. We, the Colonized Ones, Kukuli Speaks. (Third Text, #32)

Morgan, Robert Coolidge. Kukuli Velarde, (American Ceramics, vol. 15 No. 1, 2006)

Ramirez, Yasmin. Kukuli Velarde at Carla Stellweg. (Art In America, March, 1993)

Velarde, Kukuli. Isichapuitu (Ceramics Monthly, 1998)

Velarde, Kukuli. Heresies. (Latina, # 27, 1993)

_________. Portfolio (American Crafts, 1999)