Juan Uslé
Juan Uslé Oceja (born 1954) is a Spanish contemporary painter. His work varies between abstraction and figurative representation. In 2002, he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts prize awarded by the Ministerio de Cultura of Spain.
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Juan Uslé
- Name
- Juan Uslé
- Birth Name
- Juan Uslé Oceja
- Born
- 19 December 1954
- Birthplace
- Santander, Spain
- Education
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia
- Known for
- painting, abstraction
- Spouse
- Victoria Civera
- Awards
- Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (2002)
- Full name
- Juan Uslé Oceja.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker and photographer.
- Fields
- painting.
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Juan Uslé Oceja (born 1954) is a Spanish contemporary painter. His work varies between abstraction and figurative representation. In 2002, he received the Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, a national arts prize awarded by the Ministerio de Cultura of Spain.
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He works both in New York City and in Saro in Cantabria.
The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Juan Uslé is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Tate, Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Distinctions recorded are National Award for Plastic Arts.
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• Name — Juan Uslé • Birth Name — Juan Uslé Oceja • Born — 19 December 1954 • Birthplace — Santander, Spain • Education — Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia • Known for — painting, abstraction • Spouse — Victoria Civera • Awards — Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (2002)
Early life and education
Early life and education
Uslé was born on December 19, 1954, in Santander, Cantabria, in northern Spain. He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, in Valencia in eastern Spain, between 1973 and 1977. Uslé is married to artist Victoria Civera, who he has occasionally collaborated with in work. Together they have a daughter, Vicky Uslé (born 1981) who is also a painter. Uslé moved to New York City with his family in 1987. He lives between New York City and Saro, Cantabria. Uslé's first art exhibition in the United States was in 1988 at Farideh Cadot Gallery in New York City. Exhibitions of his work include Nudos Y Rizomas (2010), Es Baluard, Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca; and Notes on Soñe que Revelabas (2019), Museu D'Art Contemporani d'Eivissa, Ibiza.
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- 1.El pintor Juan Uslé, Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas. La Vanguardia. EFE. November 13, 2002.
- 2.Hudson, Suzanne. Contemporary Painting (World of Art). Thames & Hudson. 385. 2021-04-13. 978-0-500-77602-5.
- 3.Artium Museoa. Documentándonos sobre. Juan Uslé by Artium Museoa - Issuu. issuu.com. July 8, 2010.
- 4.Juan Uslé. La Caixa Foundation.
- 5.García Vega, Miguel Ángel. Juan Uslé y Victoria Civera, pintura a cuatro manos. El País. 2016-08-08. 1134-6582.
- 6.Victoria Civera, 20 años en 100 obras. El Diario Montañes. 2011-02-04.
- 7.La artista que marca el camino. XLSemanal. 2016-07-19.
- 8.Kaneda, Shirley. Juan Uslé by Shirley Kaneda. BOMB Magazine.
- 9.Hudson, Suzanne. Suzanne Hudson on Juan Uslé. Artforum.com. September 2013.
- 10.Juan Uslé. Es Baluard.
- 11.Juan Uslé. www.eivissa.es.
- 12.EFE (December 12, 2013). Juan Uslé diseña el cartel del torneo de Roland Garros 2014 (in Spanish). El País. Accessed August 2021.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Barry Schwabsky (2016), Juan Uslé: The Blind Entrance, Ediciones Polígrafa. English: ; Spanish:
- Stephan Berg, Ángel González and Raphael Rubinstein (2014), Juan Uslé: Soñé que revelabas, Kunstmuseum Bonn/Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea.
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