Felix Gonzalez-Torres
1957 — 1996
Cuba
Highly respected Cuban-born American Artist.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) was a Cuban-born American artist who lived and worked in New York City. His work was the focus of several major museum solo exhibitions in his lifetime and after his death.
Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997) and the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000) and several of Gonzalez-Torres' works appearred in the "Open Ends" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York through Feb 2001.
Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery in 1990, where he continued to show his work until his death. The gallery represents his estate.
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