Curriculum Vitae
ARTIST
José Parlá
Born in Miami, 1973
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
Miami Dade College, Florida
Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia
New World School of the Arts, Miami
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, United States
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Buffalo AKG Museum, Buffalo, New York
POLA Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
El Espacio, Miami, Florida US
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong
London Business School, London UK
Caldera Arts, Portland Oregon
Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection, Dallas, Texas
University of Texas at Austin, Landmarks Program of the Fine Arts College
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Homecoming, Pérez Art Museum Miami
2023 Phosphene, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2022 Breathing, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Polarities, Library Street Collective, Detroit, Michigan
2020 It's Yours, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City
2020 The Awakening, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2020 Entropies, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Textures of Memory, HOCA Foundation, Hong Kong
2019 Textures of Memory Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2019 Isthmus, Istanbul74' Istanbul Turkey
2019 Anonymous Vernacular, Bryce Wolowitz Gallery, New York City
2018 Echo of Impressions, Ben Brown Fine Arts London
2018 No Space / Non Place, Neuberger Museum of Art Neu Space 42
2017 Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy. Mirrors
2017 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery,
ONE: Union of the Senses | Mono-Transfers
2017 Roots, SCAD Museum of Arts, Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia
2016 Roots, National Young Arts Foundation, Miami Florida
2016 Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Small Golden Suns
2016 Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas, Instincts
2015 Mary Boone Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, Surface Body Action Space
2014 Segmented Realities, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2014 Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York - IN MEDIAS RES
2013 PROSE, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2013 Broken Language, Haunch of Venison, London
2012 Gesture Performing Dance, Dance Performing Gesture
2012 BAM FISHER - Brooklyn Academy of Music
2011 OHWOW gallery, Los Angeles - Character Gestures -
2010 Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York - Walls, Diaries, and Paintings
2009 Reading through Seeing: New Works - Ooi Botos Gallery, Hong Kong
2008 Layered Days -Cristina Grajales, Inc. New York
2008 Adaptation / Translation - Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London
2007 The Grand Tour - Autopsy Gallery, Melbourne
2007 The Elsewhere Community - Monster Children Gallery, Sydney
2006 Cityscapes, Curated by Manon Slome Miami Beach
2006 The Mystic Writing Pad, Koehler Gallery, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Realismo Mágico, Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM FISHER curated by José Parlá & Claudia Hilda
2023 The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Baltimore Museum of Art
2022 Brooklyn Abstraction, Four Artists Four Walls, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2019 Reflections, Gana Art Center, Seoul
2019 Negus: Yasiin Bey, Julie Mehretu, Ala Ebtekar, José Parlá. Brooklyn Museum, New York City
2019 Beyond The Streets, New York City
2017 Victors for Art, U-M Museum of Art University of Michigan
2016 Post No Bills: Public Walls as Studio and Source - Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, NY
2016 SEEING | SAYING: IMAGES AND WORDS, Vann Every Gallery Davidson College, North Carolina
2015 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia - Imagining New Worlds, Wifredo Lam, Jose Parla, Fahamu Pecou
2012 Wrinkles of the City, Havana Cuba screening - 11th Havana Bienial, JR & JOSE PARLA
2012 Legal Tender - Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 It Ain’t Fair - O.H.W.O.W., Art Basel Miami Beach
2010 The New Grand Tour - Bryce Wolkowitz, New York
2009 The Kings County Biennial - Curated by James Fuentes
Kidd Yellin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Stages (Live Strong Foundation) - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Deitch Projects, New York
2008 The New Grand Tour - DNA Space, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing
2008 Hi & Lo - Curated by Takashi Murakami and Hiroshi Fujiwara
Kai Kai Ki Ki Gallery, Tokyo
2007 The New Grand Tour, Hong Kong
2007 Pirate Utopias - Futura and Jose Parla - Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London
2004 Mimmo Rotella and José Parlá Curated by Manon Slome
Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2004 The Barnstormers: Retrospective
2004 SECCA: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2003 What about New York? Agnes B., Galerie, Paris
PROJECTS & PERMANENT MURAL COMMISSIONS
2018 Amistad América, Landmarks,
Univiersity of Texas at Austin
2014 ONE World Trade Center,
New York City
2013 Hunt Library by SNØHETTA,
North Carolina State University
2012 BAM FISHER, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
New York
2012 11th Havana Bienial,
Cuba: Wrinkles of the City-Havana, Cuba. JR & José Parlá
2012 Barclays Center,
Brooklyn, New York
2010 Concord CityPlace,
City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
AWARDS, PANELS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Americans for the Arts’
Public Art Network Award (PAN)
2016 Miami Dade College
Alumni Hall of Fame Award Inductee
2014 Istanbul74’ Arts & Culture Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 Brooklyn Arts Council honoree, 2014
2014 Caldera Arts at Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon
2013 ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts
London, UK
2013 Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Wifredo Lam - Havana, Cuba
2013 Latin American Culture Center
Paris, France
Grand Prize, Best Documentary Short
2013 Best U.S. Premiere, Heartland Film Festival For Wrinkles of the City, Havana Cuba
Directed by JR & JOSE PARLA, 2013
2009 Artist talk-Painting Program, Syracuse University, New York
2006 Koehler Gallery, Whitworth College Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
Spokane, Washington
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