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Born in 1954 in Madrid
Lives and works in Majorca and Paris

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2010
Jose Maria Sicilia, Amos Anderson, Helsinki, Finland

2008
“Jose Maria Sicilia : New Works”, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Arts, New York, USA

2007
“Mutation des ailes”, Ecole d’Arts Plastiques, Chatelleraudais, France
"Eclipses", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2005
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canaries, Spain

2004
"El peso de las lagrimas", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

2003
"La Luz que se apaga", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
José María Sicilia, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
José María Sicilia, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal

2002
"En Flor", Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
"La tumba en el aire", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

2001
José-Maria Sicilia, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Issoire, France
"Paintings", Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, Portugal
"Jose Maria Sicilia", Galeria Maior, Pollença, Mallorca, Spain
"New works on paper and Mirrors", Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, U.K.
"Jose Maria Sicilia. Un despertar sense imatge", Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Galeria Carmen de la Calle, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain

2000
"De los espejos", Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Chantal Crousel,Paris, France
"En Flor", Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, France
Michael Hue Williams, London, U.K.
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
"Sicilia en Silos", Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain
"Los orificios, estampas", Galeria Estiarte, Madris, Spain

1999
"Flowers, bee-hives, head-rests", Stand Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Photo, Paris, France
"Selected Works", tamada Projects Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
"Jose Maria Sicilia, Recent works", Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium

1998
Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy
"Fleurs, ruches, repose-têtes", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

1997
"L’Horabaixa", Museo Nacional Centro d’Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; Palais des Beaux-arts, Charleroi, Belgium ; Museo de la Pasion, Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid, Spain ; Museo d’Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo d’Arte y Disegno Contemporaneo de San José de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

1996
Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gandy Gallery, Prag, Czech Republic
"La luz que se apaga", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas, Canary
"Obra Grafica", Ediciones T, Barcelona, Spain
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1995
Galeria Gian ferrari, Milan, Italy
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

1994
Michael Hue Williams, London, U.K.
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Jaspers, Odense, Denmark

1993
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Fundacion Pilar i Juan Miro, Palma de Majorca, Spain
"Et in Arcadia Ego", Sala del Banco Zaragozano, Saragosse ; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Grenada ; Centro d’Arte Palacio Almundi, Murcia, Spain
Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa, Portugal
Galeria Comicos Luis Serpa, Lisboa, Portugal
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1992
"Form+Farbe", Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
"Sanlucar de Barrameda", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
"Al aire de su vuelo", Pavillion Mudéjar, Sevilla, Spain

1990
Thomas Seagal Gallery, Boston, USA
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1989
Centro del Carmen, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Gian Enzo Esperone, Roma, Italy
Runkel-Hue Williams, London, U.K.

1988
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Palacio de Velasquez, Madrid, Spain
Palacete Embarcadero, Santander, Sapin
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1987
Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Sevilla, Spain
Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1985
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Koln, Germany
Galerie Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
Sala de Exposiciones, Disputacion de Malaga, Spain
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Sevilla, Spain

1984
Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain

1983
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France
Galerie Gaston Nelson, Villeurbanne, France

1982
Galerie Trans / Form, Paris, France

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
"3 x 3 x 3 x 3", Galerie de multiples, Paris, France
"Effeuillage", Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, Bruxelles, Belgique
"Acquisitions 2007-2008", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France

2007
"Mirage et désir", Port Izmir 07 Festival international d’Art Contemporain, Izmir Turquie

2005
"Voisins Officiels, Collection du Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu", Musée d’art moderne de Lille Métropole, France
"Las mil y una noches", Sicilia, Morente, Goytisoso, el Centro Atlànthico de Arte Moderno, Vagueta/Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain

2004
"Contrepoint", Le Louvre, Paris, France

2003
"Jardin des plantes", FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
"Through the Eye of a Needle", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2002
"Le vaste monde à livre ouvert. Manuscrits médiévaux en dialogue avec l’art contemporain", Bruges, Belgium

2001
"+ vrai que nature", Capc, Musée d’ art contemporain de Bordeaux, France

2000
Artissima, Arte contemporanea a Torino, Italy

1997
"Los ochenta en la Fundacio Central Hispano", Fundacion Museo Evaristo Valle, Gijon, Spain
"Nuevas Abstracciones Espanolas", Galeria Manuel Ojeda, Las Palmas, Canary
"Sibila. Obra Grafica", Galeria DV, San Sebastien, Spain
"Arte Espanol para el Fin de Siglo", Sala de Atarazanas, Valencia, Spain
"Helmut Federle, José Maria Sicilia, Michel Young" Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Limited, London, U.K.

1996
Monumentos , Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
"Postrimerias, Alegoriasde la muerte en el arte español contemporaneo", Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
"Aquellos 80", Casas del Aguila y La Parra, Conserjeria de Cultura, Santander"Torridos Terrenos", Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid; Sibila, Séville; Galeria Charpa, Valencia; Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
"1985-1996. Obra original sobre papel", Coleccion Fundesco, Sala de Exposiciones de Telefonica, Madrid, Spain
"Fondos para una coleccion", Sala de Exposiciones Plaza de España de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain
"Coleccion Testimonio 95-96"Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelone; Nueva Sala de Exposiciones Banco Herrero, Ovide, Spain
"Arte Español para fin de Siglo", Centro Cultural Tecla Sala, L' Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
"Small Scale", Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA

1995
"Corps de la Mémoire", L' Espace d' Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées, France
"Art Athina 3' 95", Athens, Greece
"A la Pintura", Coleccion Argentaria, Sala de Exposiciones Santa Inés, Sevilla"Malpais", Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

1994
"Artistas Españoles años 80-90"Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Comme dans une image", Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
"Autorretratos Españoles del Siglo XX", Fundacion Cultural Mapfre Vida, Madrid; Sala Amos Salvador, Logrogne, Spain
"Je vous ai tant aimés", CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux , France
"Col.leccio Testimoni 93-94", Sala Sant Jaume, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

1993
"Colección de Arte Contemporáneo", Madrid ; Pavillon Mudéjar, Sevilla, Spain
"Madrid 80", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Homenaje a Cravanne", Casa de Vacas, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain
"10 Pintores/10 Escultores en los 80", Estacion Maritima, Ayuntamiento de A Corogne, Spain
"Impulsos y Expresiones", Circulo Cultural de la Fundacion La Caixa, Granollers, Spain
"Desde la Pintura", Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico D. F., Mexico
"Noise", Galerie Christine de Bras-Yves Bical, Bruxels, Belgium
"What's about John?", Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rouen, France

1992
"A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper", Toni Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA"Espagne: 23 Artistes pour l'An 2000", Artcurial, Paris, France
"Pasajes", EXPO'92, Pavillon de España, Sevilla, Spain
"XII° Salon de los 16", Pavillon Mudéjar, Seville ; MEAC, Madrid, Spain
"Madrid, Pintado", Museo Municipal, Madrid, Spain
"Arte en España 1920-1990", Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain ; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico ; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
Museum Moderner Kunst, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria

1991
"Katherine Bowling, Bryan Hunt, J. M. Sicilia", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Abstracción: Color", Galería Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
"Prints in Series", Crown Point Press, New York, USA
"Imágenes Líricas: New Spanish Visions", The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, New York, USA
"Peinture et Matière", Galerie Hadrien Thomas, Paris, France
"Anniversary Exhibition", Galería Joan Prats, New York, USA
"Por la Pintura", Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca ; Palacio de Sastago, Saragosse, Spain
Galería Maior, Pollensa, Majorca, Spain
"Spanische Kunst Aktualitat und Tradition", Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
"Artistes pour Amnesty International", Hotel des Arts. Fondation des Arts, Paris, France
"Col.leccio Testimoni", 91-92, la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Tropismes", Tecla Sala, La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Los 80 en la Colección Fundación la Caixa", Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

1990
"The Garden", A/D Gallery, New York, USA
"Polyptiques et Paravents", Galerie Bellier, Paris, France
"Papiers-Generation 90", Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Galería Jorge Albero, Madrid, Spain
"Imágenes de la Abstracción", Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, France
"Imágenes Líricas, New Spanish Visions", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
"Colección Fin de Siglo", Galería Almirante, Madrid, Spain
"Pharmakon' 90", Nippon Convention Center, International Exhibition Hall, Chiba, Japan
"Visión Contemporánea III- Miquel Barceló, Luis Feito, J. M. Sicilia", Galería Puchol, Valencia, Spain
Turske & Turske, Zurich, Switzerland
"Modern Master IV", Runkel Hue Williams, London, U.K.
"Colección de Arte Contemporáneo del Patrimonio Nacional", Palau Sollerie, Palma de Majorca, Spain
"Six Artistes Espagnols à Paris", Centre d' Art Contemporain, Castres, France

1989
"Die Spanische Kunst in der Sammlung der Fundacio Caixa de Pensions", Barcelona ; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Stadtlische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany ; Centre Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
"Amigos del Centro de Arte Reina Sofía", MNCARS, Madrid, Spain
"Artistes Espagnols du XXème Siècle", Galerie Jean Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
"Coleccion de Dibujos", Galeria La Maquina Española, Madrid, Spain
"Important Works on Paper", Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, USA
"Weiner Dtwan: Sigmund Freud Heute", Museum des 20 Jahrunderts, Vienna, Austria
"I° Triennale de Dibuix", Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Salama- Caro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Spanish Masterpieces of the 20th Century", The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Spain Art Today: Barcelo, Iglesias, Muñoz, Sicilia", The Museum of Modern Art, Tanakawa, Karuizawa, Japan
Galeria Comicos, Lisbon, Portugal
"Mostly Still Lifes", Collection Dobe, Zurich, Switzerland
"Works in Paper", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Richard Tuttle & Michael Young/ J. M. Sicilia", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Paris por supuesto", Casa de España, Paris, France
"Cuatro Caminos: Barceló, Broto, Garcia Sevilla, Sicilia", Galería Jorge Albero, Madrid, Spain
"Le Prix de Montrouge 1976-1988", Centre Cultural et Artistique de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

1988
"Epoca Nueva: Painting and Sculpture from Spain", Chicago Public Library, Chicago ; Akron Art Museum, Ohio ; Meadow Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas ; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (1989) ; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnaty, Ohio, USA
"Sean Scully and J. M. Sicilia", Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
"Barceló, Sicilia, Tàpies", Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
"ROSC'88", Guiness Hop Store, Dublin, Irland
"Modern Master II", Runkel Hue-Williams Ltd., London, U.K.
"Vanguardias", Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain

1987
"Works on Paper II", The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
"Barcelo, Sevilla, Sicilia & Mira", Catherine Isert Galerie, St. Paul de Vence, France
"Spanish Identities", Bruno Fachetti Gallery, New York, USA
"Només Se Sap Sentir", Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
"VII° Salon de los 16", Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
"Still Life: Beyond Tradition", Visual Museum, New York, USA
"Spanish Paintings in New York: Two Eras", Baruch College Gallery, New York, USA
"Espagne 87, Dynamiques et Interrogations", ARC Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
"Eighty-Les Peintres d' Europe", CEE

1986
"17 Artistas/17 Autonomías", Pavillon Mudéjar-Parque de Maria Luisa, Sevilla, Spain
"Junge Spanische Künstler", Thomas Gallery, Munich, Germany
"New Visions in Contemporain Art", Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
"D'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenées", Centre Régional d' Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
"Artificial Paradise", Asher/ Faure, Los Angeles, USA
"Arte Joven en el Palacio de la Moncloa", Palacio de la Moncloa, Madrid, Spain
"Double Figures/ Dobles Figuras : Arroyo, Barcelo, Saura, Sicilia", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, USA
"Three Spanish Artists", Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
"Pintores y Escultores Españoles 1981-1986", Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
"Fondos de l Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo", Fundación Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
"VI° Biennale de Sidney", Sydney, Australia
"XLII° Venice Biennal", Spanish Pavillion, Venice, Italy
"Prospect 86", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Spanische Bilder", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg ; Wütembergischer Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"1981-1986: Peintres et Sculpteurs Espagnols", Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France

1985
"The Importance of Reality in Spanish Contemporary Art", Pori, Helsinki, Finland
"Five Spanish Artists", Artists Space, New York, USA
Europalia: Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, Gand, Belgium
"Bruno Ceccobelli, Jeff Gampertz, J. M. Sicilia", Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA
"Nouvelle Biennale de Paris 85", ARC Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
"Nuove Trame dell' Arte", Castello Colonna di Genazzano, Roma, Italy
"Réalisme", Choisy le Roi, France
"V° Salon de los 16", Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
"Cultural Forum of Budapest", National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
IX° Biennale de Pontevedra, Spain
"Le Matièrisme", Galerie Antiope, Paris, France
"11° European Painters", National Gallery, Athens, Greece
"Four Spanish Artists", Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, USA
"Currents", Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
"Acquisitions 1983-1984", Centre Régional d' Art Contemporain, Toulouse ; Fontainebleau ; Strasbourg ; Nice, France
"Cota Cero (0,00) sobre el nivel del mar", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville; Diputación Provincial de Alicante ; Palacio de Villanueva, Valence, Spain

1984
"En el Centro", Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain
"Art Espagnol Actuel, Jeunes Artirtes Espagnols", Centre Regional d' Art Contemporain, Toulouse ; Strasbourg ; Nice ; Fontainebleau, France
"Ateliers 84", ARC Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
"Spaanse Kunst", Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Netherlands
Galería Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Christian Laune, Montpellier, France

1983
"D'effets de Mode", Musée Bonnat, Bayonne; Centre Culturel, Dourdan, France
"Loupian 83", Chapelle Romanique-Loupian, Montpellier, France
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
"Seis españoles en Madrid", Galeria Fernando Vijande, Madrid, Spain
"La imagen del animal", Palacio de las Alhajas, Madrid; La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain