Oswaldo Vigas
Maestro Vigas was a Venezuelan muralist painter, studied medicine at the Universidad De Los Andes de Mérida, Venezuela and finished his degree in the city of Caracas at the Central University of Venezuela. He worked painting, sculpture, engraving, ceramics and upholstery. It has more than 30 individual exhibitions, among them we highlight: 1952: "Oswaldo Vigas Retrospective: 1946-1952", Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo / Museum of Fine Arts, Edo. Caracas Venezuela; 1956: "Blanc et Noir", La Roue Gallery, Paris, France; 1957: Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain. / Gallery of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas: 1953-1957", Center of Fine Arts, Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas: 1953-1957, Eugenio Mendoza Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas: 1952-1957", Athenaeum of Valencia, Edo. Carabobo; 1967: "Beams: 1965-1967 paintings", Eugenio Mendoza Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Venezuelan Witches", Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington DC, USA; 1977: "Oswaldo Vigas: image of an expressive identity", Gallery of the National Institute of Culture, Museum of Italian Art, Lima, Peru. / "Ancestors", Consulate of Venezuela, New York, USA; 1978: "One hundred drawings from 1965 to 1978", La Trinchera Gallery, Caracas / "Oswaldo Vigas, an American mythology", El Callejón Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia. / Sign and magic, Durban Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela; 1996: "Comadres, equilibristas, fighters and other engenders", Ascaso Art Gallery, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela / "Oswaldo Vigas: an American man", Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba; He also participated in countless groups and among them we highlight: 1953: Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil; 1954: Works for the University City of Caracas, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. / XXVII Biennial of Venice, Italy, and Pan American Union, Washington, USA; 1957: Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; 1958: Carnegie International, Pittsburg, USA; Palace of the Inquisition, Cartagena, Colombia. / Contemporary Latin American art, Pan American Union, Washington DC, USA / University of Nebraska Art Gallery, USA / Paintings and drawings from Latin America, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, USA; 1963: Musée Maison de la Culture, Le Havre, France. / Venezuela, from landscape to plastic expression, Creuze Gallery, Paris, France. / Donner à voir No. 2, English Gallery-Bookstore, Paris, France. / Bradley, Byun, Beams, Le Gendre Gallery, Paris, France. / La boîte et son contenu, Neufville Gallery, Paris, France. / Adams Morgan Gallery, Washington, DC, USA / Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; 1978: Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; 1995: Salon de Mai, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France. / XXIX Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, special guest. / Venezuelan art in the 60s. The prodigious decade, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela. / Venezuela from l’art populaire à l’art contemporain, Center Culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France. / Being a sculptor 95, 700 Art, Maracaibo, Edo. Zulia, Venezuela; 2004: Image and figuration, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Caracas à Paris, French Alliance of Paris, on the occasion of his thirty years in Venezuela; 2010: Black Gallery Hipólita Art Gallery, Valencia, Venezuela. / Artist honored at the XV Cabriales Painting Salon, Chicago, USA / Beach Convention Center Miami, Florida, USA; 2011: IV Biennial of Sculptures, Trazos Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. He received the following awards and recognitions: 1942: Prize for the best illustration, I Exhibition Hall of Illustrated Poems, Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo; 1943: Athenaeum Prize of Valencia, I Arturo Michelena Hall; 1949: First prize, I Painting Salon, Ateneo de Mérida; 1950: Lastenia Tello de Michelena Award, VIII Arturo Michelena Room; 1952: Official Plastic Arts Award, XIII Official Hall / John Boulton Award, XIII Official Hall / Arturo Michelena Award, X Arturo Michelena Hall; 1955: Shell Company of Venezuela Award, "International Painting Exhibition", Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo; 1956: Second prize, III D'Empaire Hall / Acquisition Award, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Museum of Houston, Texas; 1958: Puebla de Bolívar Award, XIX Official Hall; 1959: Acquisition Prize, Contemporary Latin American Art Exhibition, Palace of the Inquisition, Cartagena, Colombia; 1964: Arturo Michelena Award, XXII Arturo Michelena Room; 1973: First mention, First Biennial of Latin American Art, Museum of Modern Art of Sogamoso, Colombia; 1992: Grand Prix S.A.S Le Prince Reinier III, XXVI International Prize for Contemporary Art, Principality of Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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