ARNALDO ROCHE
ARTWORK
Give Him Some Wheels and He Will Run (2013) Oil on Canvas 84” x 180”
Give Him Some Wheels and He Will Run (2013) Oil on Canvas 84” x 180”
Give him wheels and he will run (2013)
Oil on Canvas
84” x 180”
Gime Me Some Wings and He Will Fly (2013) Oil on Canvas 84” x 180”
Gime Me Some Wings and He Will Fly (2013) Oil on Canvas 84” x 180”
Give Him Wings and He Will Fly (2013)
Oil on Canvas
84” x 180”
Sunflower Flooded Field (2011) Oil on Canvas 72" x 72”
Sunflower Flooded Field (2011) Oil on Canvas 72" x 72”
Sunflower Flooded Field (2011)
Oil on Canvas
72" x 72”
ARTIST BIO
RESOURCES
ARNALDO ROCHE RABELL
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1955
Academic Background
1984 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1982 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1974-78 Studies in Architecture, UPR, Puerto Rico
Awards and Grants
2006 The Best Museum Solo Show Award, Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006 Award Winner of AICA Special Prize, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 Award Winner, Primera Bienal Internacional, Cumaná, Venezuela
1991 Award in the Visual Arts 10
1989 Painting Prize, Segunda Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Cuenca, Ecuador
1982 James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1981 Lincoln Award, Illinois State Government
Selected Solo Shows
2010-11 Bayamon Museum of Art, Bayamon, PR.
2009 Azul/ Blue, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009-08 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Museum of Latin American Art MOLAA, Long Beach , California
2008 Recent Works, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2008 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
2008 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Chicago Cultural Center , Chicago, Illinois
2007 Arnaldo Roche: New Work, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2006 Obra reciente, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá
2005 Obra reciente, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana
2004 At the Edge of Religion, Walter Otero Gallery, Puerto Rico
2003 Cain: The Stolen Landscape, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003 Fraternos, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
2002 Fraternos, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1996 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell -The Uncommonwealth, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada/ Kranner Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Urbana, Chicago
1996 Face to Face, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Museo de Arte Moderno, México D.F., México
1994 Fuegos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994 The Legacy, Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York, New York
1993 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, México
1993 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell: Recent Works, Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York
1992 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Galería Alejandro Gallo, México, D.F., México
1991 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1991 Frenetic Dreams, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
1990 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Frumkin / Adams Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1989 The Art of Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, St. Louis Galllery of Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri
1986 Eventos, milagros y visiones, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1984 Arnaldo Roche Rabell, Ponce Museum of Art , Ponce, Puerto Rico
Selected Group Show
2013 Pinta 13 (UP COMING)
2013 Chaco 13
2012-13 Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
2013 Puerto Rico.. Puertas al paisaje
2010–09 Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville Tennessee
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C./ The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
2008 Visiones: 20th Century Latin Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
2007 Selection of the Permanent Collection, Nassau County Museum, New York
2005-06 Portrait, El Museo del Barrio, New York/ San Diego Museum of Art, California/ Bass
Museum of Art, Florida
The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. / San Antonio
Museum of Art, Texas2005 Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2005 Go Figure, Multi-Cultural Aspects of the Human Form. Selections from the Permanent
Collection, Lowe Art Museum, Florida
2004 Contemporary Art From the Diane and Bruce Hall Collection, Tucson Museum of Art,
Tucson, Arizona
2003 Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art, Lowe Art Museum at the
University of Miami, Miami, Florida
2003 Urbanity Humanity: Acquisitions and Selections from the Permanent Collection, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
2002 Crisis Response, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode
Island
2002 I Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
2001 Humor and Rage, Caixa Fundation Catalunya, Barcelona, España
2001 Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, New Mexico.
2000 The Latin Caribbean: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Museum of Latin
American Art, Long Beach, California
1998 Primera Bienal Internacional, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Cumaná, Venezuela
1998 XXXème Festival International de la Peinture, Chateau Grimaldi, Cagnes-Sur-Mer,
Francia
1997 Absolut Art Biennial Invitational, Los Angeles, California
1996 Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1996 Going Places, Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York
1995 The Reconstructed Figure: The Human Image in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of
Art, New York
1995 Arts 1995, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Janssen Collection of Contemporary European and American Art, Jones Museum of Art
of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
1994 American Realism-Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Selections from the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,
D.C.
1993 Carib Art: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean, Curaçao National Commission for
UNESCO, Netherlands Antilles
1992-93 Latin American Artists of the XXth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France/ Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1992 Cruciformed: Images of the Cross-Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, Ohio
1992 Uncommon Ground: Contemporary Latin American Art, Art Gallery of The College at New
Paltz, New York
1992 Encounters, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1991 Awards in the Visual Arts 10, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico/ The
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
1991 Art and Architecture at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Illinois
1990 The Awakening, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1990 The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary
Hispanic Art
The Studio Museum, The New Museum, New York, New York
1990 National Drawings Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center; Little Rock, Arkansas.
1990 Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, Inc., Woodstock,
New York.
1989 Chicago Artists in the European Tradition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Illinois.
1989 Painting Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca , Ecuador
1987 Hispanic Art in the United States; Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors, The
Museum of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F., México, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
1987 Art of the Fantastic - 1920-1987, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; The
Queens Museum, Queens, New York
Center of the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, México,
D.F., México.
1987 XIX São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.
1987 15th Competition & Exhibition, The Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois.
1987 Recent Developments in Latin American Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois.
1986 Made in America; The Great Lakes States, Alternative Museum, New York, New York.
1986 Contemporary Works on Paper, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1984 Portrait Look-Alikes, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.
1983 The Big Pitcher; 20 Years of Abstracted Figure in Chicago Art, Hyde Park Art Center,Chicago, Illinois.
Selected Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Hirshhorn Museum, Painting and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Archer Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
De la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Bronx Museum, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Museum of Fine Art, Caracas, Venezuela
Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island City, New York
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Espacio 1414 Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Collection, Chicago, Illinois.
Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, RD.
Fundación Cultural de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
SADA Collection, Monterrey, México
Leipziger Volkszeitung Collection, Leipzig, Germany
Mexico Cultural Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Halle Collection, Tucson Arizona
Bacardi Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Museum of Contemporary Art Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Modern Art , Cuenca, Ecuador
Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Cisneros Capital Group Collection, Miami, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
Maison d’Amérique, Paris, France
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Reynolds House Museum of American Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina
Lowe Art Museum, Miami University, Miami, Florida
Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
Tourism Company, San Juan .
Bayamon Museum of Art, Bayamon, PR.
Museo de Antropología, Historia y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
Colección Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples, San Juan.
St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort, Rio Grande, PR.
