This week I chose to research Arturo Herrera. Arturo was born 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied art at both the University of Tulsa as well as the University of Illinois at Chicago where he received a MFA. In 2003, he moved to Berlin for 11 years for a residency through the German Academic Exchange Service.
Arturo’s practice consists of collage, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. He uses fragments of imagery from pop culture. His work is almost in between legible and abstract. When finding and using elements such as books or comics, he enjoys giving the materials a “different” life. Herrera wishes to evoke a memory and recollection from his partially obscured images. His work can be described as both “provocative”and “open-ended”.
Herrera has received many awards such as a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship. He also has many solo exhibitions: Dia Center for Arts, NY, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, and the UCLA Hammer Museum just to name a few.

won’t let me upload photos, so I’m adding his website to view.

https://arturoherrera.org/