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Maribel Portela
Mexico City, 1960

 

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011  
Nature Altérée, Le Musée du Haut-Richelieu, and at L´Espace Desjardins du Théatre des Deux Rives.
Sant-Jean-Sur, Quebec, Canada.

2010  
Rosarium Philosphorum, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City

2008  
Dream Garden, SHCP Museum, Old Archbishop’s Palace, Mexico City

2006  
The Body Blossoming, Quintana Galleries, Portland, Oregon, USA

2004  
Dreams that bloom, Drexel Gallery, Garza García, N. L. Mexico.
Building with the look: Traveling exhibition, Hacienda San Gabriel de las Palmas, Mexico, Rafael Coronel Museum, Zacatecas, México, Former prision, San Luis Potosí, S. L. P., Querétaro Art Museum, Qro.
Mexico at the Forefront, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA

2003  
The goddesses, Quintana Galleries, Portland, Oregon USA

2002  
Rites and collectors, Drexel Gallery, Garza García, N.L., Mexico
Everyday´s goddess, Galería Itatti, Mexico City

2001  
Rites and collectors, Galería de la S. H. C. P., Mexico City
Day seeds, Sculptures garden, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

2000  
From memory and other stories, 527 Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

1999  
Recent Work, Art Felchlin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
Steel and clay, Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City
Calendar for living in the unreality, Drexel Gallery, Garza García, N. L., Mexico.

1998     
Journey to the Underworld or the false doors to Death: Installation, George R. Gardiner Ceramic Art Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Personal Altar, Art of the People Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

1997  
We are time, Drexel Gallery, Garza García, N. L., Mexico.

1996  
Recent Work, Meredith Kelly Latin American Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

1995  
Spiral Workshop-Visit 1500 clay figures, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico, DF

1994  
Shadows of Desire, Hakim Gallery, Mexico City
World full of mud, PEMEX executive Tower, Mexico City

1990  
The Garden of Eden, Arte Sur Gallery, Mexico City

1989  
The sinners, Kahlo-Coronel Gallery, Mexico City

1988  
The widows, San Carlos Academy Gallery, Mexico City
Sunbathers in love, Kahlo-Coronel Gallery, Mexico City

1987  
Women and passions on the fly, Casa del Lago Gallery, Mexico City

1986  
Seraphim, Somex Cultural Promotion Gallery, Mexico City

1985  
Mermaids, Constituyentes Museum, Mexico City

1983  
At night all cats are gray, T.V. 11th channel, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011  
Dialect of the urban landscape, Diego Rivera Mural Museum, Mexico City

2010  
Zona Maco, Drexel Gallery, Banamex Center, Mexico City
Art and Science Meet, Engineering Institute, UNAM, Mexico City
First Sculpture Simposium Mérida 2010, City Museum, Merida, Mexico.
Three by three, Sculpture, Painting, Engraving, San Luis Potosí Arts Center, Mexico.

2009  
20 years Fonca, José Vasconselos Library, Mexico City
Zona Maco, Drexel Gallery, Banamex Center, Mexico City
Latin American Art Fair, River North Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA
Latitudes in Transit, Hall B, National gallery, Jakarta.
Arte–Sano, Folk Art Museum , Mexico City

2008  
Immortality: A day of Dead Celebration, Main Gallery, Art Center Chicago, ILL, USA
International Symposium clay sculpture, Innsbruck, Austria Bauakademie-Lehrbauhof.
Women History, Mexico Artists in the Twentieth Century, Monterrey Contemporary Art Museum.
Women with no account (Mujeres sin cuenta), Cultural Institute of Mexico in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

2007  
From the Earth, Nigromante Fine Arts Museum, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
2006  
The obligation of reason (wholesale and retail), Alameda Central, Mexico City
Arteurbe, Cervantes International Fest, Guanajuato, Gto. Mexico.
Iberoamérica, Juxtaposing Spanish and Latin American Art, John P. Weatherhead Gallery, Ft. Wayne, In. USA

2005  
With the soul in the hands, Modern Art Museum, Mexico City
Contemporary Art Fair, Drexel Galería, Exhibimex Exhibition Center, Mexico City
International Symposium D’art in situ, Derouin Fondation, Val-David, Quebec, Canada.
A cross-cultural view of women in the arts, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA

2004  
The dream of the Earth: XXI Century trends, Cultural de México, Washington DC, USA
Flying paper eyes, Modern Art Museum, Mexico City
Contemporary Art Fair, Drexel Gallery, Exhibimex Exhibition Center, Mexico City
Visual log: paymente in kind Collection, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público Museum, Mexico City
1000 years of Porcelain, Jindezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Republic of China.
American Clay, Lia Bermudez Museum, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
The war, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA

2003  
Earthly bodies, Anthropology and History National Museum, Mexico City
Materials’ evocations: payment in kind Collection, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público Museum, Mexico City
Contemporary Art Fair, Drexel Galeria, World Trade Center, Mexico City
You’re an animal, José María Velasco Gallery, Mexico City
VI Monterrey Biennial, Arts Center, Monterrey, NL., Mexico.

2002  
Mexicansk Keramik, International Museum of Ceramic Art, Denmark.
Contemporary Art Fair, Drexel Galería, World Trade Center, Monterrey N.L., Mexico.
Sofa New York, Seventh Regiment Armory, NYC, USA
Sofa Chicago, Navy Pier Chicago, ILL, USA
Collective, Maresa Arévalo Gallery, Mexico, DF.
From a Woman’s perspective, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA
The earthly and the ethereal: Sculpture in small format, Makers in the States’ Program, CONACULTA 2002-2004
Exhibits, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, USA
Time, stone and clay, Art and Science Museum, UNAM, Mexico City
Mexican Sculpture: part three, Palace Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City

2001  
Winter collective, Mackey Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Domestic case, José María Gallery Velasco, Mexico City
Time images: payment of kind Collection, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público Museum, Mexico, DF.
Exchange 3+2” Small Format Ceramic: Contemporary Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Just Sculpture, Drexel Gallery, Garza García, N. L., Mexico.
AIDS daily, Chopo Museum, Mexico City
10 plus 10, Erick Harvie Theatre, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

2000  
5th  International Ceramic Biennial, National Arts Center, El Cairo, Egypt.
Parallel visions: payment of kind Collection, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público Museum, Mexico City
Notes for a collection of XXI Century, Modern Art Museum, Mexico City

1999  
Just a wink: Mexican sculpture in ceramics, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público Museum, Mexico City
34 Artistes Mexicains, Quand les impots deviennent un regal pour l’esprit, Cultural Center of the Embassy of Mexico, Paris, France.
Just a wink: Mexican sculpture in ceramics. Was shown in Ireland at the following spaces: Tig Fili Cock Gallery; Hunt de Limerick Museum; Dundalk Basement Gallery; Moore Society Gallery. May County; Wexford Art Center. Wexfor, American Art School. Dublin, Garter Lane Art Center. Waterford. In Mexico was presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca.

1998  
Art-Objetc toy, Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
Mujer in Situ, Chopo University Museum, Mexico City
Ceramic Art Second Biennial, Alfa Museum, Monterrey, N. L., Mexico.
Just a wink: Mexican sculpture in ceramics, Expo Lisboa 98, Portugal; Cultural Center of the Embassy of Mexico, in Paris, France, Galway Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland.

1997  
The body transgressions, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Third Monterrey Biennial, Monterrey Museum, N. L. Mexico.
Eleven by Eleven: artistic exchange, Portland, Oregon, USA

 

1996  
First Ceramic Art Biennial, Alfa Monterrey Museum, N. L., Mexico.
Prologue, Artespiral Library, Mexico City
Hyper reality, Pape Museum, Monclova Coah., Mexico.
Earth and Spirit, Ceramic Sculpture, Hakim-Arte Actual Gallery, Mexico City
Group Exhibition, Meredith-Kelly Latin Amercican Fine Art Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Lands, Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City
Creation in motion, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Art-Object toy, Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City
Exchange 3. Small format Ceramic, Contemporary Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
100 Artists against AIDS, Association of Economists, Mexico City
UNICEF, Auction Exhibition, World Trade Center, Mexico City

1994  
Contemporary Spanish-American Ceramics: a Gathering, Palacio 2, Brussels, Belgium.
By zone Zone, Independent space, Mexico City
Outdoor Sculpture, Rome’s Cultural Corridor, Mexico City
Earth, Oil, Paper, Galileo 100 Gallery, Mexico City

1993  
Contemporary nude, Galileo 100 Gallery, Mexico City
Art-Object Toy, Jose Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City

1990  
Ceramic Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City

1989  
Herbarium, Kahlo-Coronel Gallery, Mexico City
Expressions and Shapes, Grupasa Gallery, Mexico City

1987  
Group Exhibition, Grupasa Gallery, Mexico City
Young Art Encounter, INBA National Auditorium, Mexico City

1984  
Woman in the graph, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City

1983  
Engraving Workshop, UNAM’s National School of Plastic Arts, Mexico City

 

AWARDS                                          

2011  
Artist Residency FONCA-CONACYT Mexico-China, Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University. Pekin, China.

2001  
She is a member of the National System of Art Creators FONCA, Mexico City

2000  
Building Program in Ceramic, Mexico (Puebla), Canada (Banff)

1998  
Second Art-Object Toy International Biennial. 2º. Place, José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City

1994  
Grant for Young Artists, FONCA, Mexico City

1987  
Meeting on the landscape plastic. Special Mention, People’s Theater, Mexico City

1986  
50 years of struggle for power.  Acquisition Award, National Auditorium, Mexico City

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Mexico National Bank, Mexico City
Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
UNAM Engineering Institute, Mexico City
Bicentennial Garden, Jalapa,Veracruz, Mexico.
Garden of Sculptures, Jalapa,Veracruz, Mexico.
Alvar T. Carillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
City of Merida Museum, Yucatan, Mexico.
Archbishop Museum, Mexico City
Government Palace Museum, Monterrey NL., Mexico.
Museum of International Ceramic Arts, Denmark.
Foreign Secretary, Mexico City

PUBLICATIONS

2010
Rosarium Philosophorum, Editorial Praxis, 2010

2008
Dream Garden. Maribel Portela, 2008

2007
Summary # 88, Mexican Art Promotion, 2007

2003
Advento, Federito Motta Editore, 2003
Earthly Bodies, Sculpture in clay, Boris Hirmas Publishers, Mexico City 2003.
Time, earth and clay, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2003

2001
The human form in clay, Jane Waller, The crowood press LTD, Ramsbury, Malborough, Wiltshire, Sn8 2hr, England, 2001.

1999
Mexican Sculpture: Academy of Installation, National Council for Culture and the Arts, Fine Arts National Institute, Landucci Editores, S. A. de C. V., Milán, 1999.

New Acquisitions of work of art, Foreign Secretary, Landucci Editores, Milan, 1999

 

 

      

 
 
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