Ana, a striking mixed medea sculpture by Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz. From the estate of the artist.
Painter and printmaker and sculptor Juan Manuel Gomez-Quiroz was born in Santiago de Chile on February 20, 1939 -2021. He studied at the Gregorio de la Fuente workshop in 1956 and enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, University of Chile, the following year. In 1962 he traveled to Rhode Island on a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the School of Design, and then again to Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Finally, he settled in New York, where he took courses at the Pratt Graphic Center.
From 1969 to 1976 he served as adjunct professor of art at New York University. He was a member of the jury at the Arts Olympics event and in 1988 he taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology's Printmaker Workshop in New York. The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art hired Quiroz as curator and administrative assistant in 1986. In addition to printmaking and painting, he was an avid reader and self guided student of literature, and in 1971 he began exploring art book techniques, employing his knowledge of sculpture to create a three dimensional book of poems by Pablo Neruda. From 1986 to 1988 he served as president of the HH Silverman Publishing Company, and between 1995 and 2000 he was director of the Writer's Space at Hostos Community College.
Solo exhibitions:
Decor Rooms, Santiago de Chile, 1961
Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1964
Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1964
Ledesma Gallery, NY, 1964
Second Annual Exhibition of lithography, Univ. of FL, 1965
Yale University Art Gallery. Connecticut, 1966
University Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 1967
Alonzo Gallery, NY, 1970
Ten Downtown, NY, 1971
Summit Art Center, NJ, 1972
Ars Concentra Gallery, Lima, Peru, 1975
Schubert Gallery. Marbella, Spain, 1977
Gloria Cortella Gallery, NY, 1978
Pacanins Gallery, Mexico City, MX, 1979
Museum of Modern Art, Guadalajara, MA, 1979
Museum of Latin American Engraving, San Juan, PR, 1980
Omar Rayo Museum, Rodalnillo, Colombia, 1984
Todd Capp Gallery, NY 1986
Euclidian and Non-Euclidian Nudes, Sutton Gallery, NY, 1986
Sutton Gallery, 1988
Juan Gomez Anthology, Works on Paper, Museo de la Nacion, Peru, 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art of the Univ. of Chile, Santiago, 2007