Baruj Salinas - a Cuban Master - biography notes
Baruj Salinas - a Cuban Master - biography notes
Baruj Salinas was born in Havana, Cuba. He received his degree in architechture from Kent State University in Ohio.After his exile from Cuba in 1959, he moved to Miami.After a few years, he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he worked closely with painters of the stature of Miró and Tapies.His work can be seen in several important museums and collections in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2011“Caminos, 30 Años entre América y Europa”, Museo José Luis Cuevas, México, DF
“Baruj Salinas”, Ayuntamiento de Soria,
España
2008“Claros del Bosque”, America’s Collection,
Coral Gables, FL.
2007“Baruj Salinas: Homenaje a Maria Zambrano”, Sala de Exposiciones, Diputación de Málaga,
Spain
“Baruj Salinas: A Retrospective”, ICCAS Casa Bacardi, University of Miami,FL.
“New Paintings,” MDC InterAmerican Gallery,
Miami, FL.
2004“Otra Mirada”, Fabero, (Leon) Spain
“Gouaches” , Pesqueira Gallery, Key Biscayne
“Claros del Bosque”, MDC Frances Wolfson
GalleryMiami, Florida
2003“Otra Mirada”, Astorga, (León) Spain
"Pintar de Palabras",Centro Cultural Español,
Coral Gables, FL.
"Calzada, Consuegra y Salinas", King FineArts,New York, NY.
2002"Gesta", Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland
"NewWorks", Central Connecticut State University, Samuel Chen Art Center, Hartford, CT.
200125 Años de Obra Grafica (Retrospectiva),
Galeria Trazo, Mexico City
2000Partial Retrospective ofPaintings, Espace Vallon-
Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland
1999Galeria Trazo, Mexico City
1998America’s Collection, Coral Gables, Florida
Amalia Mahoney Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1997Fundación Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga,
Spain.
1996Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
Galeria Alfredo Melgar, Madrid, Spain.
1995Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
1994Shuyu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Forum de las Artes, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Art Gallery, Continental Bank, Miami,
Florida.
1993Galeria Torculo, Madrid, Spain.
Galeria Pemex, Mexico City
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables,
Florida.
Carte Blanche a Editart, Museo Villa du Parc,
Annemasse, France.
Caja de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
1992Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
Centro Cultural Fatima, Monterrey, Mexico.
Galerie Editart, "Nocturno Duo", in
collaboration with Vahe Godel, Geneva,
Switzerland.
1991Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
1989Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland.
Galeria Nomen, Barcelona, Spain.
1988Galeria Torculo, Madrid, Spain.
Galerie des Arcades, Bern, Switzerland.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Galeria del Palau, Valencia, Spain.
1987Centre Culturel Editart, Geneva,Switzerland.
Galerie in-Octavo, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1986Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland.
1985Galeria Rayuela, Madrid, Spain.
River Gallery, Westport, Connecticut.
1983Foster Harmon Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
Centre Culturel Editart, Geneva,Switzerland.
Galeria Nomen, Barcelona, Spain.
1982Galeria Joan Prats, New York, N.Y.
Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1981Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Schweyer-Galdo Galleries, Detroit, Michigan.
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain.
1980Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Art Package, Chicago, Illinois.
1979Galeria Sol del Rio, San Antonio, Texas.
Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland.
1978Forma Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
1978The Art Package, Chicago, Illinois.
1977Centre Culturel Editart, Geneva,Switzerland.
1976Armon Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
1975Centre Culturel Editart, Geneva,Switzerland.
Galeria Pecanins, Barcelona, Spain.
Harmon Gallery, Naples, Florida.
1974Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City
1971Palacio de Bellas Artes, Instituto Nacional de
Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Galerie Rene Borel, Deauville, France.
B.I.D. Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1970 Erdon Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Argosy Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
Exposicion Itinerante, Republica de El
Salvador.
1969Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft.
Lauderdale,Florida.
1968Galeria Mer-Kup, Mexico City
1967Galeria de Mexico, Montreal, Canada.
1962Miami Beach Art Center, Miami Beach, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004“De Ida y Vuelta”, Centro Cultural Espanol,
Miami, Florida
“Group Exhibition” , Homage a Maria Zambrano
Galerie Editart, Geneva, Switzerland
2003“Beltran, Bencomo, Cuenca y Salinas”, Westchester Public Library, Miami, FL.
“Diaspora:Bencomo, Lloveras y Salinas”, Walker Fine Arts, Denver. Colorado.
“Three Cuban Masters: Calzada, Consuegra & Salinas”, King Fine Arts, New York, NY.
2002"Cuban Painters", Editart, Geneva, Switzerland
2000"Homenaje al Lapiz", Museo Jose Luis Cuevas,
Mexico City
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca,
Mexico
Museo de Periodismo y las Artes Graficas y
la Fundacion Alvarez del Castillo,
Guadalajara, Jalisco,Mexico
Museo de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes,
Mexico
"Bencomo and Salinas", Two Man Show, Corbino Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
"El Viaje"..., Art Book and Exhibition of
Etchings by 17 artists, Caracas, Venezuela
1999"III Trienal Arte Grafico Internacional de
El Cairo,Egypt.
"Cuban-Sephardic Artists", Mizel Museum of
Judaica, Denver, Colorado
Museo Arte Contemporaneo Latino America
(MACLA), La Plata, Argentina
Throckmorton Gallery, New York, NY
Musee D'Art de Lelocle, Lelocle, Switzerland
"El Lapiz", Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico
City
1998"Loin de Cuba", Musee des Tapisseries,
Aix-en Provence, France
1997"II Trienal Arte Grafico Internacional de El
Cairo",Egypt.
- "Michel Butor et La Gravure", Musee Baron
Gerard, Bayeux, France.
1995"20 de Mayo", (Group Show) Cuban Museum of
Art, Miami, Florida.
Kawagushiko Museum, Japan.
1994Yamanashi Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan.
Vista Gallery, New York, NY.
"Selected Works from the Permanent
Collection", Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, Florida.
Symposium of Lithography, La Coruña, Spain.
"Carte Blanche a Editart", Musee Villa du
Parc, Annemasse, France.
1993"Premio Nacional de Grabado", Calcografia
Nacional, Madrid, Spain.
1992"Homage to Octavio Paz", Patiño Foundation,
Geneva, Switzerland.
Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City
1991Patiño Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Euroamericana de Grabado," Diputacion de la
Coruña, La Coruña, Spain.
1990Centre Culturel Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
1988"Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba", Center for the
Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
Galeria Rayuela, Madrid, Spain.
Gillman-Stein Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
"10 Jahre", Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel,
Switzerland.
1987"Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba", Zimmerli
Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
"Recent Development in Latinamerican
Drawing", The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
"International Bienal of Graphic Art",
Moderna Galerija, Ljubjana, Yugoslavia.
"Lateinamerikanische Kunstler", Galerie del
Mese-Fischer, Melteschwaden, Switzerland.
"Latin American Treasures from MiamiPrivate
Collection", Center for the Fine Arts,
Miami, Florida.
1986"Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano", MOCHA
(Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art), New
York.
"V Bienal de Dibujo y Grabado Domecq",
Mexico City
"VII Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano," San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
"Miro, Tapies, Salinas", Galerie in-Octavo,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
1985"Private Treasures, Public View", San
Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
Artconsult, Boston, Massachussetts
1984"ARCO' 84", Galeria Joan Prats, Madrid,
Spain.
"Art 15 '84", La Poligrafa, Basel,
Switzerland.
1983"III Europaische Bienale E.V.", Baden-Baden,
Germany.
"Premio Internazionale Biella per
L'Incizione, Biella, Italy.
"VI Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano", San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
"Hommage a Miro", Editart, Geneva, Spain.
"Obra Sobre Papel", Galeria Joan Prats,
Barcelona, Spain.
1982"New Acquisitions", San Antonio Museum of
Art, San Antonio, Texas.
"International Exhibitions of Original
Drawings",Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka,
Yugoslavia.
"Works on Loan", McNay Art Institute, San
Antonio, Texas.
1981"V Bienal de Grabado Latinoamericano", San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
Museo de Arte del Siglo XX, Alicante, Spain.
1980"II Bienal de Dibujo y Grabado Domecq",
Mexico City
Museo de Villafames, Castellon, Spain.
"Tramesa Postal", Barcelona, Spain.
"IX Bienal de Grabado de Ibiza", Museo de
Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain.
Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A.
1979"Fiesta de la Letra", Barcelona, Spain.
1978McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas,
U.S.A.
"VIII Bienal de Grabado de Ibiza", Museo de
Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain.
"Art 9' 78", La Poligrafa, Basel,
Switzerland.
1977"Arte Actual Iberoamericano", Centro
Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Madrid,
Spain.
1976"Artistas Latinoamericanos", Museo del
Ampurdan, Figueras, Spain.
1974Galeria Mer-Kup, Mexico City
Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City
- "Pintura Cubana", Miami Art Center, Miami,
Florida.
"Major Florida Artists", Foster Harmon
Galleries, Naples, Florida.
Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida.
1969Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Sala Acuna, Guatemala, Guatemala.
1968"Watercolor U.S.A.", Springfield, Missouri.
Galeria Mer-Kup, Mexico City
Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City
1967Le Moyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee,
Florida.
"Hortt Memorial Exhibition", Ft. Lauderdale
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
1966Galeria Mer-Kup, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
1964"Watercolor U.S.A.", Springfield, Missouri.
Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville,
Florida.
1963"Annual Juried Exhibition", Four Arts
Society, Palm Beach, Florida.
1962Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
"Hortt Memorial Exhibition", Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida.
1960Circulo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
1959Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
COLLECTIONS
Art Museum of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Arte del Siglo XX, Casa de la Asegurada, Alicante, Spain.
Bacardi Collection, Miami, Fl
Beit Uri Museum, Israel.
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain.
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland.
Cuban Museum of Art, Miami, Florida.
Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain.
Fundación Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain.
Fundacion Miguel Aleman, Mexico City
Institute of International Education, New York, NY.
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Musee Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
John Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
Lowe Art Museum (Cuban Collection) Coral Gables, Fl.
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
Museo Alvar Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Ayuntamiento de Soria, Spain
Museo Arte Contemporaneo LatinoAmericano (MACLA), La Plata, Argentina.
Museo Cuevas, Mexico City
Museo de Arte Moderno, Ibiza, Spain.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Museo de Villafames, Villafames, Spain.
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Museo Nacional D'Árt de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Museum of Art, Budapest, Hungary.
Museum of the Americas (OAS), Washington, DC.
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan.
Pemex Collection, Mexico City
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona.
Public Library, City of Miami, Miami, Florida.
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
University of Ohio Museum of Art, Miami, Ohio.
Villa de Montecatini Collection, Italy
Museo Maria Zambrano, Velez-Malaga, Spain
Hello
i obtained a collection of lithographs of Baruj Salinas since 1983 and have everyday loved to look at those works of art.
never tiring of trying to figure out what i am looking at on the wall.
i would love the opportunity to meet the artist in person and appreciate what he has created. my entire collection of art is Baruj Salinas art work
God has truly blessed us with his work