About the artist:

Born in Chicago, 1952. American painter and printmaker, Roberto Juárez is a highly acclaimed artist who earned an important position in the art world since his first exhibition in 1977. His travels to Mexico, Rome, the Dominican Republic, and India have a definitive effect on his art. His works are inspired by visual sources across a multicultural spectrum which he then reinterprets in his unique way. Juarez gravitated toward the traditions of Hispanic and non-Western painting, decorative arts and crafts, including pre-Columbian motifs. An Asian formal esthetic, too, is evident in the division of many of his canvases into vertical sections like those in decorative screens. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2002 -The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California 2001 -Roberto Juarez: New Big & Small Paintings, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; -Roberto Juarez, Robert Miller Gallery, New York -Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York . - Recent Acquisitions, Bronx Museum, New York -Roberto Juarez and Julio Galan, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, University of California. -Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota - Duluth 2000 -Taste and Home Decorating: New Paintings by Roberto Juarez, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington -Roberto Juarez, Robert Miller Gallery, New York -Roberto Juarez: New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California 1999 -Roberto Juarez: Survey New York - Miami 1987-1999, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida -Avocado Alchemy, Roberto Juarez: New Paintings, David Floria Gallery, Aspen -Roberto Juarez: Falo Paintings, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico -Wildflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York -Expanding Expressions: Contemporary Master Prints, Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis - Paper View, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York 1997 -Rome Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York -American Art Today: The Garden, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami SELECTED MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS -American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York -Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York -Denver Art Museum, Colorado -J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky -Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri -The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Florida -El Museo del Barrio, New York -Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, Florida -Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York -The Newark Museum, New Jersey -The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri