Juan Uslé

Juan Uslé was born in Santander, Spain in 1954. He now lives and works in Saro (Cantabria) and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973 to 1977.

Uslé first exhibited in New York in 1989 at the Farideh Cadot Gallery. His paintings have been shown in galleries and museums since 1981.

He is represented by Cheim & Read in New York City, Gallery Thomas Schulte in Berlin, Frith Street Gallery in London and LA Louver gallery in Los Angeles.

Solo exhibitions

• Carmen del Negro, Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Diputación Provincial de Granada Cultura: Area de Bienestar Social, Granada, Spain (5/5–6/25/00), traveled to Museo de Bellas Artes Ayuntamiento de Santander, Santander, Spain (7/7–9/2000)
• Noche Abierta, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (5/23–7/1/00)

• Llebrana and Gramaland, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
• Quartos Escuro e Amarello, Museu Serralves/Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal (5/18-7/8/01)
• Beauty & Sorrow, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
• Llebrana and Gramaland, Photographs, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2/9–4/7/01)

• Cheim & Read, New York
• Saro on paper. Juan Uslé, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium (12/5/02-1/18/03)
• Galerie Guislaine Houssenot, Paris
• First Time, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

• Open Rooms, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid Spain (10/16/03 - 1/12/04) traveled to: S.M.A.K., Gent, April/May/June 2004, Fundación Botin Santander Summer 2004; Imma Dublin
• September/October 2004
• New Painting, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

• Coágulo y Trama, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (6/24/06-7/24/06)
• Open Rooms, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander; SMAK, Stedlïjk Museum voor Actuale Kunst, Gent; IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

• Alegre (with Victoria Civera), Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium

• Frith Street Gallery, London, England (3/3/06-4/21/06)
• En Otros Ojos, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (6/22/06-7/15/06)
• Pieles y Miradas (with Victoria Civera), Galería Siboney, Santander, Spain

• Juan Uslé. Switch on / Switch off, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain (9/14-11/25/07)
• Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
• Luz Aislada, Zoom, Santander, Spain

• Juan Uslé, Ojo-nido, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California (5/22 - 7/5/28) Full exhibition page for Ojo-nido at LA Louver gallery
• Valencia Bancaja Headquarters, Valencia (4/1–6/30/08)
• Cheim & Read, New York (2/7–3/15/08)

Juan Uslé, La Novia de Belchite Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

• Nudos y Rizomas (knots and rhizomes). Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Majorca (01/29/10-05/02/10)

Museums and public collections

• Artium-Museo de Bellas Artes de Álava, Vitoria
• Autoridad Portuaria, Santander
• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
• Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Col-lecció Testimoni, "la Caixa", Barcelona
• Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "la Caixa", Barcelona
• Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deportes, Gobierno de Cantabria
• George Eastman House, Rochester, U.S.
• Collection Norte, Gobierno de Cantabria
• Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Ministère de Culture, Paris
• Foundation AENA. Colección de Arte Contemporàneo
• Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
• MIGROS, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• Musèe d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg
• Museo de Arte Contemporàneo Español, Patio
• Herreriano, Valladolid
• Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander
• Mueso de Torrelaguna, Madrid
• Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Español Contemporàneo, Badajoz
• Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
• Museum Marugame Hirai, Japan
• Museu Serralves, Porto
• Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
• Parlamento de Cantabria, Santander
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
• New York Public Library, New York
• Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
• Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
• Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• Tate Modern, London
• University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
• Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey