Catalina Chervin / Curriculum vitae (abbreviated).
Born in Corrientes, Argentina in January 1953. Lives and works between NY and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Graduated from The National School of Fine Arts “Ernesto de la Cárcova” (1973-1979), she was also trained by great Argentinean masters like Teresio Fara,Juana Butler, Kenneth Kemble, Ideal Sanchez, Eolo Pons, Emilio Renart, among others. She has been working at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in NY for 35 years and also with Takuji Hamanaka. She worked in collaboration at Lothar Osterburg’s (NY, 2004-2010-2015), Kathy Caraccio’s (NY, 2003) respective workshops and with Devraj Dakoji at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop (NY, 2017 / 2022).
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023: 2023 “Black Vocabulary “. Franklin Rawson, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts. San Juan, Argentina.
2022: "Nigredo". Legislature of the province ARTE CO. Art Fair. Corrientes. Argentina.
2021 "Catharsis" Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary. New York, NY, USA.
2020 “Atmospheres and Entropy”. Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires . Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018 Sonnets of healing installation. Argentine Embassy and Jaggedart Gallery. London, UK.
2016 Atmospheres and Entropy - Works on paper by Catalina Chervin,solo travelling exhibition,OAS F Street Gallery, Art Museum of the
Americas, Washington, DC; Herman Maril Gallery,University of Maryland, College Park,MA; Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY,
USA
2016 Catalina Chervin, Jewish Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 As I breath, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, Germany, Catalog
2012 Pasaje 865 Foundation,Buenos Aires, Argentina,Catalog
2008 Animal Gallery, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2007 The Writing of the Invisible,Maman Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Catalog
2002 Arroyo Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Kunstgewinn Gallery, Köln, Germany
British Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998 Drawings, S. Gallery, Woldemar-Winkler Foundation, Gütersloh, Germany Drawings, J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main,
Frankfurt, Germany
1995 OEA Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina,Catalog
1990 Art Gallery, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, USA
1984 Del Retiro Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Catalog
1980 Altamira Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 TEFAF Maastricht, Galería Patrick Heide Gallery. Maastricht, Holand
2022 DEVRAJ DAKOJI | PRANAMU, LIFE FORCE
The Printmaking Workshop, Robert Blackburn. EFA, New York, USA
2019 Drawing Biennial, Franklin Rawson Museum, San Juan, Argentina
2018 XIX Edition of the International Print Award Premio Leonardo Sciascia,Fondazione Federica Galli, Milano, Italia
2018 19 TEFAF Maastricht,Patrick Heide Contemporary Art Gallery, Netherland
2017 Recent Acquisitions El Museo’s Collection, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
2003 17 International Graphic Art Biennial Dry Point Uzice, City Gallery of Uzice, Serbia
2014 16 The Blackburn Exchange Show, New York, NY, USA
The Armory Show, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, NY, USA
2015 Streams of Being: Selections from the Art Museum of the Americas, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Maryland USA
2014 Art Basel Hong Kong, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Intuitionists, Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
Charity Auction for the Berlin Castle, Berlin, Germany
2013 Obsessive Traces, Drawings by Five Artists, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012 Re-Open International Contemporary Printmaking Exhibition, Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2011:
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Voces y Visiones: Signs, Systems & The City, El Museo del Barrio,New York, NY, USA
Marked Differences/Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, curated by Roberta Waddell, Kentler International Drawing Space,
Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Narrando Historias: diálogos sobre la gráfica contemporánea, Borges Cultural Center,Buenos Aires, Argentina;Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA
The Print Club of New York, Prints from member’s collection (1994 - 2010), The National Art’s Club, New York, NY, USA
Art Cologne,Maman Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2010 H. ART, Herefordshire Art Week, The Drawing Gallery, London, UK
2009 Contemporary Prints, The Drawing Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Drawings, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2007 Viewing Program, Artist Registry, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
2006 40 Artists and 40 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, London, UK
2003 Newer Genres, Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
International Print and Drawing Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan.
2000 Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia, Spain
Award for Artistic Creativity in Visual Arts, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina
2001 XII The San Juan-Puerto Rico International Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Printmaking, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1996 V International Biennial,Drawing,Cuenca, Ecuador
1993 Surrealism in Latin America, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
Collections
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
The British Museum, London, UK
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NY, USA
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
AspekteImaginativer Kunst Im 20 Jahrhundert, KunstmuseumBochum, Bochum, Germany
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
Woldemar WinklerCollection,Gütersloh, Germany
University of Essex, Collection of Latin American Art, Essex, UK
Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, USA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Permanent Collection, QQC Art Gallery. City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Eduardo Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Juan R. Vidal Provincial Museum of Fine Arts. Corrientes, Argentina
Franklin Rawson Art Museum, San Juan, Argentina
The Printmaking Workshop “Robert Blackburn”, New York, NY. USA
The Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY. USA
Selected Awards
2018 First Prize Drawing. Manuel Belgrano Drawing Award. Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Premio a la Trayectoria, AAVRA (Asociación de Artistas Visuales de la República Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lifetime Achievement Award- AAVRA (sAssociation of Visual Artists of the Argentine Republic). Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005 Alberto J. Trabucco Drawing Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003 First Prize National Drawing Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Third Prize Manuel Belgrano Drawing Award, Eduardo Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1995-99 Finalist International Drawing Award,Ynglada Guillot Foundation, Barcelona,
Spain
1988 JenaroPérzVillamil Drawing Award, Ferrol, Spain
Fellowships
2014 Fellowship in Visual Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York,NY, USA
2010 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, NY, USA
2004 Fellowship in Visual Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation,New York, NY, USA
2001 Fellowship in Visual Arts, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Presentations
2018 Visiting Critics Series, New York Academy, New York, NY, USA
2015 Visiting Scholar, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2009 PCNY Artists’Showcase 2009, The Print Club of New York, New York, NY, USA
2002 Visiting Artist, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
1997 Invited to Art Omi Residency, New York, NY, USA
Publications, Bibliographies and Illustrations
2021: ArtNexus. Hutchinson Modern and Contemporary. Alberto Barral.
2021: Catalina Chervin “Catharsis”. Robert C. Morgan .The Brooklyn Rail.
2020: Book "Atmospheres and Entropy ". Catalina Chervin. 1998 / 2020. MACBA,
Museun of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Text: Robert C. Morgan - Dr Angel M. Navarro - Dr Marietta - Mautner Makhof
Dr Susan Owens - Norman Kleeblat - Dr Edward Sullivan - Dr Joshua Halberstam.
2016: “Atmospheres and Entropy, Works on paper by Catalina Chervin”. Text - curator : Dr. Susanna V. Tempkin .
2016 Edward J. Sullivan: Catalina Chervin atCecilia de Torres Ltd. New York, NY, Art Nexus Magazine
2013 Marietta Mautner Markhof, Catalog essay, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, Germany
2009 Contemporary Argentine Drawing, Olmo Ediciones, Michael Nungesser essay, Berlin, Germany
2007 Edward J. Sullivan,Catalina Chervin and the Grotesque of the Quotidian, Catalog essay, Maman Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 The line and the color in fair doses, Rafael Squirru, La Nación Newspaper, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Responses: Intercultural Drawing Practice, published by Liverpool School of Art and Design,Center for Art International Research,
Liverpool, UK
1998 Sepp: “Hallucinated Realities”; Robert Morgan: “Catalina Chervin” ; Roque De Bonis: “Seismograph”; Graciela Kartofel: “An ink tear”,
Catalog essay , Museo de ArteContemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996 Chervin, in her Palace, RafaelSquirru, La Nación Newspaper,Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991 Lelia Driben: There is a Vacuum, Diario Uno más Uno, Mexico, DF, Mexico
1991 Aldo Galli: The Pass of Dreams, La Nacion Newspaper, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1990 José Gomez Sicre, Drawing, Washington, DC
1990 César Magrini, And the rest is silence, Catalog essay , IDB, International Development Bank,Art Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
Included in Algemeines Kunstler-Lexikon Art Dictionary, Berlin, Germany