Eugenio Espinoza Venezuela, b. 1950

Born in 1950 in the highlands of Venezuela., Eugenio Espinoza studied under Gego at the Instituto de Diseño Newmann-Ince in Caracas, and at Pratt Institute, NYU and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Some of his latest group and solo shows include: Tropical, Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America, National Gallery Singapore (2023) Sur Moderno: Journeys of Abstraction, MoMA, New York (2019); Room for Failure, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA (2019); Human Applause, Bortolami, New York (2018); Raising the Curtain, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid, Spain (2017); Artevida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014) Permission to be Global, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, (2014); Good, Blue Day, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, USA (2019); Unlocking Something, Galleria Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy (2017); Retro/Retrospective, 2016-1972, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain 2016); Unruly Supports, (1970 to 1980) at Perez Art Museum Miami, USA (2015).

A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Fine Arts for the U. S. and Canada(2017), Eugenio Espinoza work is in the permanent collections of Tate Modern, London, U.K.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fundacion Gego, Caracas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; the Fine Arts Museum of Houston, Texas; the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas; the Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Sao Paulo; Museo de Arte Moderna, in Rio de Janeiro; the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL; and several other prestigious private and public collections.