Oswaldo Vigas

Oswaldo Vigas (Valencia, Carabobo, August 4, 1923 - Caracas, April 22, 2014) was a Venezuelan painter and muralist. He studied medicine at the University of Los Andes in Mérida and completed his career at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. His work encompassed painting, sculpture, engraving, ceramics and tapestry.

Biography

Childhood

Son of Dr. José de Jesús Vigas and Nieves Linares, descendant of Arturo Michelena. He was 10 years old when his father died and Vigas lived between Valencia and Tinaquillo.

1940

In 1941, he moved to Guacara, where he made his first paintings. His first known important work is the illustration of the Book of Poetry (1941) at the Ateneo de Valencia. In 1943, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his work Hojas Rojas, creating the exhibition that made him known. In 1945, he entered the University of Los Andes-Mérida to study Medicine. In 1946, he presented ¨Oswaldo Vigas¨ at the Ateneo de Valencia. His painting continues to be motivated by the human figure, with increasing deformation, greater freedom and thickening of the line in reinforcement of the general expressiveness of the work. In 1947, he participated in the V Salón Arturo Michelena, at the Ateneo de Valencia. In 1949, he moved to Caracas and completed his medical studies at the Central University of Venezuela; he never practiced as a doctor. He frequented the Taller Libre de Arte and actively participated in the artistic movement of the time, and periodically visited the Cristóbal Rojas School of Plastic Arts, where he interacted with Manuel Cabré, Martín Durban, Pedro Ángel González, Rafael Ramón González and Rafael Monasterios, among others. others. Furthermore, in the same year, he obtained the First Prize in the First Painting Salon at the Mérida Athenaeum. The human figure continues to be the central theme of his painting, increasingly distant from conventional figurativism. The line becomes more aggressive, he begins to use flat colors, lacerating them, and discovers pre-Columbian ceramics. All of this marks the preamble to "The period of the witches".

1950

In 1952, he obtained the Arturo Michelena Prize at the Ateneo de Valencia and the National Prize for Plastic Arts, obtained several works and settled in Paris. In Paris she took the Art History course at the Sorbonne. In 1957, she returned to Venezuela and returned to Paris. In 1959, he as cultural attaché of the Venezuelan Embassy in France. In 1962, he participated in the Venice Biennale representing the country. During that period, he ventured into material informalism and made a series of etchings with the sugar water technique.

1960

In 1964, he returned to Venezuela and the UC published a monograph on the artist, written by the Norwegian critic Karl K. Ringström. In that year, he again received the Arturo Michelena Prize with a work with an informalist tendency, Parameras . Her informalist experience enriched her reunion with figuration and in the mid-sixties she returned to the essential forms of her witches in a series of "personagrestes", executed with violent brushstrokes and material charge, briefly interrupted at the end of the decade. for a return to abstraction. In 1965, he was appointed director of culture at the University of Los Andes and together with Juan Astorga he worked on the creation of Mamja.

1970

From 1970 onwards, he settled in Caracas and resumed his work on the series María Lionza and Señoras. In 1971, he was appointed director of the Art Division of Inciba. At the beginning of 1972, he traveled to the United States and dedicated himself to developing a set of serigraphs. Upon his return, in this same year, he resigned from his position in protest against the censorship that the State imposed on the I Salon of Graphics and Drawing at the Center of Fine Arts of Maracaibo, whose performance had to be suspended. From 1974 to 1975, he was part of the Preparatory and Organizing Commission of Conac. In 1976, he was appointed member of the Advisory Board of the Museum of Fine Arts of Caracas and the National Art Gallery, which began operating in May of this year under the direction of Manuel Espinoza. In 1978, he was part of the organizing committee of the I Ibero-American Meeting of Art Critics and Plastic Artists. In 1979, the National Art Gallery held an anthological exhibition of his work produced between 1943 and 1977.

1980

In 1981, he joined the Proposition 20 group, and exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas the tapestries designed by him and executed in the workshops of St. Cyr (France). Already in 1971, he had carried out work of this type in workshops in Portugal and France, which he later continued with tapestries woven by artisans from Toluca (Mexico) and later with a set made in Spain. At the same time, he executed numerous ceramic pieces: reliefs on refractory and stoneware plates, molds for dishes, paraffin oxides under cover, etc. "In Oswaldo's ceramics many of the fantastic beings that occupy the entire space of his paintings, tapestries and graphics reappear, but now reduced to the size of a talisman" (Pineda, 1981). He supervises the execution of a stoneware mural relief commissioned by the Ateneo de Caracas and in 1983 he made gouache and graphics, inspired by Simón Bolívar. In 1985, he presented his first bronze sculptures, a consequence of the ceramic experiences of the early eighties. In 1986, he worked around the theme of crucifixion (from sketches dating back to the fifties), peace, mother, child and birds. The space in Vigas' work begins to be populated with signs and non-figurative forms, based on irregular planes that are oriented towards increasingly linear geometric compositions but with a gestural character. "Rectangles and squares are intercepted by pronounced bars that recall Hartung, even due to the monochromatic aspect of these compositions, since Vigas reaches the fullness of this period with fabrics resolved on the basis of black and white, of suggestion graph. It is evident that there is still a suggestive atmosphere here, a degraded atmosphere that distances these works from the purely planistic conception, typical of geometric abstractionism. Carlos Raúl Villanueva commissioned several mosaic murals for the University City of Caracas.

1990

In 1990, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas organized a retrospective with more than 200 works including paintings, sculptures, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and crafts. On the occasion of this exhibition, the Lagoven company produces for its Cuadernos series the short film dedicated to the life and work of the artist, Oswaldo Vigas: renewal in the origin. This same year, he is invited to Montreal (Canada) and participates in the exhibition & # 34; Latinartca 63: masters of contemporary Latin American art & # 34; . In 1990, a new book was published on the work of Oswaldo Vigas, with texts by the French critic Gastón Diehl. In 1992, he traveled to Monaco and participated in the XXVI International Prize for Contemporary Art, where he received first prize with Crucifixion VII. In 1993, at the Palacio de la Moneda in Paris, he organized the exhibition 'Vigas desde 1952 a 1993', which brings together around 137 creations including paintings, gouache, sculptures, ceramics and drawings. In 1995, he exhibited in & # 34; Tapestries of today on walls of yesteryear & # 34; (France and Tokyo), a tapestry made on the occasion of the Pan American Games in Caracas (1982). In 1996, the exhibition "Oswaldo Vigas: an American man" It is presented at the Casa de las Américas in Havana on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Casa Simón Bolívar. In 1999, he was honored at the seventh edition of the FIA. In his last stage his paintings tend toward simplicity, with a few touches of color and large areas of untouched canvas. Of his work, the National Art Gallery (Caracas) has in its collection a significant number of works dated between 1957 and 1987.

Death

He died at the age of 88 due to pneumonia, after being admitted to a hospital in Caracas without serious symptoms.

Personal life

His son is the filmmaker Lorenzo Vigas (Mérida, 1967) who became the winner of the Golden Lion at the LXII Venice Film Festival 2015 for his debut film From there. In 2010, he was created the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation, with the aim of preserving and promoting the artist's work.

Prizes

• 1942: Award for Best Illustration, I Exhibition Hall of Illustrated Poems, Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobobo
• 1943: Prize Ateneo de Valencia, I Salón Arturo Michelena
• 1949: First prize, I Painting Hall, Merida Athenaeum
• 1950: Lastenia Tello Award by Michelena, VIII Arturo Michelena Hall
• 1952: Official Prize for Plastic Arts, XIII Official Hall / John Boulton Prize, XIII Official Hall / Arturo Michelena Prize, X Arturo Michelena Hall
• 1955: Shell Company Award from Venezuela, "International Exhibition of Painting", Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobobo
• 1956: Second prize, III D'Empaire Hall / Acquisition Prize, Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Houston Museum, Texas
• 1958: Puebla de Bolívar Prize, XIX Official Exhibition
• 1959: Award for Acquisition, Exhibition of Contemporary Latin American Art, Palace of Inquisition, Cartagena, Colombia
• 1964: Arturo Michelena Prize, XXII Arturo Michelena Hall
• 1973: First mention, I Biennale de Arte Latinoamericano, Museo de Arte Moderno de Sogamoso, Colombia
• 1992: Grand Prix S.A.S Le Prince Reinier III, XXVI International Prize for Contemporary Art, Principality of Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Exhibitions

Individuals

• 1942: Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela.
• 1943: Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela.
• 1945: Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo Venezuela.
• 1946: Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela.
• 1952: "Retrospective Oswaldo Vigas: 1946-1952", Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo / Museum of Fine Arts, Edo. Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1954: Galería Cuatro Vientos, Caracas.
• 1956: "Blanc et Noir", La Roue Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1957: Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain. / Contemporary Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas: 1953-1957", Centro de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas: 1953-1957, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas: 1952-1957", Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo.
• 1958: Oswaldo Vigas of Venezuela: Pan American UnionWashington, D.C., USA. U.S. / "Blancos y negroes", Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1961: "Peintures récentes", La Roue Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1963: "Vigas", Neufville Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1964: "Oswaldo Vigas, paintings of the 1960s-1964", Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela / Galería Prisma, Instituto Gómez Cardiel, Cumaná, Venezuela / Oswaldo Vigas: retrospective: 1941-1964Ateneo de Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela / Vigas: engravings, drawings, gouaches, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1965: "Oswaldo Vigas: paintings of the 1960s-1964", Casa de la Cultura, Maracay / "Oswaldo Vigas: paintings of the 1960s-1964", Centro de Bellas Artes, Maracaibo
• 1966: Retrospective "The witches, genealogical tree: 1941-1952", Gallery XXII, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1967: "Vigas: paintings 1965-1967", Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Venezuelan Witches", Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington D. C., USA.
• 1969: Master's House, Tinaquillo, Edo. Cojedes, Venezuela.
• 1970: "Mitifications", Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela. / Galería Bon Art, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela. / Tapestries, Galería Antañona, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1971: Teatro Bellas Artes, Maracaibo / "Oswaldo Vigas: paintings 1945-1971", Centro de Historia Larense, Barquisimeto
• 1973: "Oswaldo Vigas: Recent Paintings", Galería Antañona, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Retrospective Oswaldo Vigas 1943-1973", Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, Colombia. / "Oswaldo Vigas: Serigraphies", San Diego Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia. / "Mitos y figuraciones", Portobello Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1974: "Oleos y acrílicos", Galería Bancarios, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1977: "Oswaldo Vigas: image of an expressive identity", Gallery of the National Institute of Culture, Museum of Italian Art, Lima, Peru. / "Ancestors", Consulate of Venezuela, New York, USA. U.S.
• 1978: "Cien drawings from 1965 to 1978", Galería La Trinchera, Caracas / "Oswaldo Vigas, an American mythology", Galería El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia. / Sign and magic, Galería Durban, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1979: "Oswaldo Vigas, ancestral poetry", Gallery Gaudí, Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Anthological "Elemental Rites, Dark Gods", National Art Gallery, Caracas Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas" Instituto de arte Panameño, Panama.
• 1980: "Ancestors", Embassy of Venezuela, Paris, France.
• 1981: Oswaldo Vigas Tapicería, Municipal Gallery Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1982: Vigas, Exhibition hall, Colegio de Abogados del Estado Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.
• 1984: "Idolos and Characters", Durban Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1987: "Andean landscapes" in the company of Marius Sznajderman, Galería Los Espacios Cálidos, Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1989: Ceremony, Centro Armitano Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1990: "Oswaldo Vigas, from 1942 to 1990", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela. / Retrospective Vigas: the figurative and the theological, Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1992: "Los Duendes", Itagalería, El Hatillo, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Vigas: tapestries and ceramics", Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela. / "Grabs, drawings and screenprints", Alianza Francesa, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1993: "Friday from 1952 to 1993", Museo La Monnaie de Paris, Palacio de la Moneda, Paris, France. / Oswaldo Vigas: the recent work, Grupo Li-Centro de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1994: "Oswaldo Vigas in Paris: Inédites Works", Découvertes-redécouvertes 94, in the framework of Saint-Germain des Beaux Arts, Corinne Timsit International Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1995: "Mutants, pélés, contorsionnistes et autres zigotos", Galería La Tour des Cardinaux (Galerie La Tour des Cardinaux, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France / "Oswaldo Vigas. Recent works", Galería Li Centro de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1996: "Comadres, equilibristas, peleles and other engenders", Ascaso Art Gallery, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela. / "Oswaldo Vigas: an American man", Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
• 1997: Oswaldo Vigas. Key works from 1952 to 1997, General Command of the Aviation, Caracas, Venezuela. / Tribute of the Venezuelan Air Force to Master Oswaldo Vigas. / Vigas en MaracaiboGallery 700 Art, Maracaibo, Edo. Zulia, Venezuela
• 1998: Oswaldo Vigas, painting and sculpture, The Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, USA / On the Way Always", Sidor Room
• 1999: Embassy of France, Caracas, Venezuela. / Restaurant Il Pinolo, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2000: Entes, settlers and travel memories, Galería Dimaca, Caracas, Venezuela. / Birds of peace and other memories, Gallery 700 Art, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
• 2001: Noon Fiction, Ascaso Art Gallery, Valencia, Venezuela.
• 2002: National Institute of Applied Sciences, Lyon, France / Ideographies of Paris, 1952-1957, Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela. / Oswaldo VigasTenji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
• 2003: Oswaldo Vigas: memories of the present, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2004: Ideographies of Paris, 1952-1957, Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
• 2005: Oswaldo Vigas: sacro and mundane, Gallery 700 Art, Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas: recent prints, French Alliance, Caracas, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas: sortilèges des tropiques, Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France.
• 2006: Oswaldo Vigas: creatures of awe in the framework of the celebration of the ten years of the gallery, Galería Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2007: Oswaldo Vigas: passion for creation, Galería Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Caracas, Venezuela. / Land and fire, Fundación Banco Provincial, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2008: Oswaldo Vigas in Paris, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2009: Women, women and women, French Alliance based in La Castellana, Caracas, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas en InterValores, Caracas, Venezuela. / Oswaldo Vigas. Drawings, Galería Punto de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2010: Oswaldo Vigas. From witches to healersFernando Peñalver Park, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela.
• 2011: Oswaldo Vigas de Merida to ParisCaracas, Venezuela. / Peintures: retrospective that includes 170 works, Centre d ́Art Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-mer, France. / Feria Iberoamericana de Arte de Caracas, FIA 2011, with Galería de Arte Ascaso and Galería Medicci, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2012: The drawing in the work of Oswaldo Vigas 1940-2012 (retrospective that includes 100 works), Cabinet of the Drawing and the Estampa de Valencia, Venezuela. / Feria Iberoamericana de Arte de Caracas, FIA 2012, with Galería de Arte Ascaso, Galería Medicci and 700, Arte de Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Exhibition of Ibero-American art on the occasion of the celebration of the two hundred years of the constitution of the Supreme Court Madrid, Spain.
• 2013: Constructivist beams 153-1957, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA. UU. / University City of Caracas: synthesis of the major arts six decades 1953-2013, BBVA Provincial Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela. / Constructivist beams 1953-1957, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2014: Oswaldo Vigas: transfigurationsDillon Gallery, New York, USA. U.S.

Collectives

• 1953: São Paulo Biennial, Brazil.
• 1954: Works for the University City of Caracas, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. / XXVII Biennial of Venice, Italy, and Pan American Union, Washington, USA.
• 1955: São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. / Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA / Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1956: Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France. / Permanence de l’Art, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland. / Picasso and contemporary Hispanic American art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA / Gulf Caribbean Art Exhibition, Galerie Craven, Paris, France. / Tribute to Paul Klee, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico. / International Biennial of Painting and Recording. / Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1957: Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1958: Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
• 1959: Palacio de la Inquisición, Cartagena, Colombia. / Contemporary Latin American Art, Pan American Union, Washington D. C., USA / University of Nebraska Art Gallery, USA / Paintings and drawings from Latin America, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, USA
• 1960: La Roue Gallery, Paris, France. / Pan American Union, Washington D.C., USA
• 1961: Neufville Gallery, Paris, France. / Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1962: XXXI Venice Biennale, Italy. / Instituto Cultural Venezolano-Israeli, New York, USA / Venezuelan painterSalon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France. / Rabat Museum, Morocco. / Venezuelan painters of the Paris School, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. / L’Art latino-Américain à Paris, La Roue Gallery, Paris, France. / Neufville Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1963: Musée Maison de la Culture, Le Havre, France. / Venezuela, from landscape to plastic expressionGallery Creuze, Paris, France. / Donner à voir N.o 2, Galería-Librería Inglesa, Paris, France. / Bradley, Byun, Vigas, Galería Le Gendre, Paris, France. / La boîte et son contenu, Neufville Gallery, Paris, France. / Adams Morgan Gallery, Washington D. C., USA / Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1964: Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba. / Latin American painting. Tribute to the Algerian revolution. Artists from the Paris School, Algiers Museum, Algeria.
• 1965: Venezolanische Malerei von HeuteGermany. (Itinerant exhibition of Venezuelan artists).
• 1970: Exhibitions of the group Presencia 70, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1971: Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1972: The Ewa Gartztecka Collection, Wroclaw National Museum, Poland.
• 1973: World Print Competition, San Francisco, USA
• 1974: Eight Venezuelan artists, Aele Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
• 1975: Panorama of Venezuelan painting, Casa de Las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
• 1976: Latin Excellence, Contemporary Hispanic Art, Xerox Corporation Center, Rochester, New York, USA
• 1978: Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1980: The Venezuelan constructive arto, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela. / Second Ibero-American Art Biennial, Instituto Pedro Domecq, Mexico. / Chicago International Art Exhibition, Navy Pier-Chicago, USA / Image Inquire, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
• 1981: Imaggio a Picasso, Palazzo Robellini, Citá di Erba, Italy. / Pro-position 20, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1987: Art Gallery of Non-Aligned Countries, Titograd, Yugoslavia.
• 1989: Art of the Bolivarian countries, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 1990: LatinArtCa 90, La Galerie d’Art Lavalin, Montreal, Canada. / Reunion, Premios Arturo Michelena 1943-1989 and Premios Andrés Pérez Mujica 1951-1989, Galería de Arte Ascaso, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo, Venezuela. / Latin American drawings today, San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA / Masters of Latin American Art, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, USA
• 1992: From Torres-García to Soto, Art Museum of the Americas, OAS. / XXVII Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Monaco.
• 1998: Works of the FDA collection, Maison du Citoyen, Fontenay-sous-bois, France
• 1994: Acquisitions, Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain (FDAC), Paris, France. / Tapisseries d’aujourd’hui sur murs d’autrefois, Château des Adhémar, Montelimar, France.
• 1995: Salon de Mai, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France. / XXIX Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, special guest. / Venezuelan art in the 1960s. The prodigious decade, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela. / Venezuela de l’art populaire à l’art contemporain, Centre Culturel de Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France. / Be sculptor 95, 700 Art, Maracaibo, Edo. Zulia, Venezuela.
• 1997: The Art Free Workshop, 1948-1952Jacobo Borges Museum, Caracas, Venezuela. / Constructivist Art from Latin America, Sotheby’s, New York, USA / Tapisseries de l’Atelier 3, Auditorium de Lyon, France.
• 1999: Four Latin American Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, USA / Peinture et Sculpture d’Amérique Latine, Festival La Cita, Biarritz, France. / Museum Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas. / Etats d’un temps. FDAC Collection, Centre Culturel de Paris Sucy, France.
• 2000: A coeur, a monde (One Heart, one World), Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, France.
• 2001: I Exxon Mobil Art Hall of Venezuela, Sacro Museum of Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2002: Geometry as a vanguard. Collection Banco Mercantil, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela. / Contemporary Venezuelan Art, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, USA / Geometric Abstraction in Venezuela, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela. / The Latinamerican & Caribbean Art Today, Miura Museum of Art, Miura, Japan. / Reaction and controversy in Venezuelan art, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
• 2003: Megaexposition 1900-2000, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Venezuelan art of the centuryXX.. PDVSA Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia, Venezuela.
• 2004: Image and figuration, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Caracas à Paris, French Alliance of Paris, for its thirty years in Venezuela.
• 2006: Le Musée de la Tapisserie a 20 ans, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France. / Documentary. 30 years in Venezuelan art, National Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Iberoamerica, University of Saint Francis, Chicago, USA / Aldo Castillo Gallery.
• 2008: Artists of l’Atelier 3, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France. / Art Nocturne KnokkeCultuurcentrum Scharpoord, Knokke, Belgium. Mary Ann Manning Gallery, USA / Atelier 3 Transpositions. Tapisseries, 1972-2008, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France.
• 2009: Real Space, Ascaso Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Latin America Art, Sotheby’s, New York, USA / Our artists, Medicci Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela. / Honored artist at FIAAM, Maracaibo, Venezuela. / Latin American Art, Christie’s, New York, USA.
• 2010: Galería de Arte Parque Negra Hipólita, Valencia, Venezuela. / Honored artist at the XV Painting Cabrials Hall, Chicago, USA / Beach Convention Center Miami, Florida, USA.
• 2011: IV Biennale of Sculptures, Art Gallery Trazos, Caracas, Venezuela.

Gallery

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  Mural of Oswaldo Vigas called Static composition located in the Museum building. West Facade, south end.

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  Mural of Oswaldo Vigas called A static element in five positions located in the communications building, east facade.

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  Mural of Oswaldo Vigas called An element - vertical character in horizontal evolution located in the Rectorate building, entrance hall.

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  Mural of Oswaldo Vigas called An element - triple character located in the Rectorate building, east facade, adjacent to the Land of No one.