MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
Born in Bogotá, Colombia 1963
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
1988-1990 Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, USA
1987-1988 Graduate Sculpture Program, Pratt Institute New York, USA
1981-1985 BA in Visual Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
1981-1982 Architecture, Universidad del los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Galeria Casas-Reigner, Bogota,Colombia
2006 Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Death Becomes Her, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Emu, next 5 km, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
2004 Maria Fernanda Cardoso, GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney
Cara de Buseta (Bus Face), Galeria Diners, Bogotá, Colombia
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: 20 años, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
2003 Cara de Buseta (Bus Face), Casas Reigner, Miami, Florida USA
ZOOmorphia: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, MCA, Sydney
BIOgometries (BIOgeometras), Latincollector, New York, USA
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Galeria Diners, Bogota, Colombia
2002 Sheep, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., USA
Butterfly Drawings, Galeria Casas-Riegner, Miami, Florida, USA
Dibujos de Mariposas (Butterfly Drawings), Galeria Diners, Bogotá, Colombia
2000 Cardoso Flea Circus, Installation, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
Esculturas (Sculptures), Galeria Sala Alternativa, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 Cardoso Flea Circus, video installation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1996 Cardoso Flea Circus, installation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1995 Love Down Under, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1994 Submarine Landscape, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
Woven Water, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Recent Sculptures, MIT List Art Center, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
1993 Cemetery, Chapman University, Orange County, California, USA
Gold, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1992 Calabazas (Gourds), San Francisco Artspace, San Francisco, USA
Botuto Guarura (Gourds), Sala Alternativa, Caracas, Venezuela
El Marmol Americano (American Marble), Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991 Obra Reciente (Recent Work), Galeria Garcés y Velasquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1987 Nuevos Nombres (New Names), Casa de La Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
Australian, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Fundacion Daros Latinamerica, Rio de Janerio, Brasil
2007 Homing Devices, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa Florida
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
Transactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, USA
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latinamerica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati
Arte Colombiano en la Coleccion del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota 60-00, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota
Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latinamerican Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2006 TRANSactions, Miami Art Museum, USA. (2006-2007)
MCACollection: New Acquisitions 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Nature in the Garage, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Earth Cry, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Animal as Allegory, QUT Brisbane
We are Australian too, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Swell, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Marca Registrada, Museo Nacional, Bogotá
2005 Riverside Walk, permanent public art piece, Miami, USA
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
National Sculpture Prize, National Art Gallery, Canberra, travelling exhibition, Australia
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latinamerica, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
Bug City, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Swell, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
2004 Otras miradas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber MACSI Venezuela. Galería Gabriela Mistral, Galería Metropolitana, la Galería Bech, la Galería Balmaceda, Galería Posada del Corregidor, Chile. Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Memorial de América de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montevideo Uruguay. Museo de Artes de Peru. Casa de América Latina de París France. Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros Latinamerica Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Jupiter’s Art Prize, (Awarded 1st Prize) Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia
XXXIX Salon Nacional de Artistas, Bogotá, Colombia
2003 Material Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. USA
IV Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Archipielago de Imagenes 50esima Esposizione Internazionale D’Arte la Biennale di Venezia, , IILA Instituto Italo Americano Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Fourtell, Casas Reigner Gallery, Miami, USA
Corporal, Schimidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
2002 Material World: 25 Years of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Animalandia. Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
2001 Bienal del Barro (Biennale of Mud), Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Club Latino, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Politicas de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano de Fin de Siglo (Politics of Difference:
Ibero-American - Art at the End of the Century), Centro de Convenciones de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil with international tour.
Final Del Eclipse (End of the Eclipse), Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain MEIAC
(Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo) Granada, Spain with
international tour until 2004.
2000 Versiones del Sur: 5 propuestas en torno al arte en Latinoamerica (Versions of the
South: 5 proposals around Latin American Art), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, California, USA with national tour.
Almost Warm and Fuzzy - Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Center for the
Arts, Des Moines, Iowa, USA with international tour.
1999 Modern Starts: People, Places, Things, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
commissioned installation: Cementerio-Jardin Vertical (Cemetery: Vertical Garden).
1998 Sliding Scale, SECCA South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, USA
Generacion Intermedia (Intermediate Generation), Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
1997 Of Mudlarkers and Measurers, Agnes Ethenington Art Center, Ottawa Art Gallery,
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1996 Collective Soul, Galeria Marina Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Natura Morte (Still Life), Institute fur Auslandsbeziehumgen Galerie, Stuttgart and Bonn, Germany
Quinta Bienal de Bogotá (Fifth Biennale of Bogotá), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Fuera de Limite (Out of Bounds), Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, USA
The Essential Object, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, USA
Explorations Part I: The Shoreline, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz, California, USA
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Changing Spaces: Artists projects from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, curated by
Mary Jane Jacobs, Vancouver Art Gallery; Canada with national tour.
1995 Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices, Main Art Gallery, California State University,
Fullerton, California, USA
About the Size of It, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, USA (World Premiere of the Cardoso Flea Circus)
1994 Animal, John Michael Kholer Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
Punto de Apoyo (Point of Support), Expo Arte Guadalajara ‘94, Mexico;
travelled to Colombian Center, New York, USA; Galeria Deimos, Bogotá, Colombia
1993 Lingua Latina est Regina (Latin Language is Regal) Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Cartographies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; toured internationally until 1995.
Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas, Americas Society, New York, USA; toured internationally.
1992 Entre-trópicos (Between Tropics), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Work in Progress by Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA
Contemporary Images, The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Klima Global-Arte Amazonas (Global Climate – Amazonian Art), Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; toured internationally until 1994.
Anteamerica,, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; toured internationally until 1994.
1991 Cuarta Bienal de La Havana (4th Havana Biennale), Centro Wilfredo Lam, Habana, Cuba
Instalaciones (Installations), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
1990 II Bienal de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Arte Colombiano de los 80 – Escultura (Colombian Art from the 80’s-Sculpture), Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia
XXXIII Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXXIII National Artists Salon), Feria Exposicion, Bogotá, Colombia
1988 I Bienal de Arte de Bogotá (First Bogotá Biennale), Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1987 XXXI Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXXI National Artists Salon), Aeropuerto Rionegro, Medellín, Colombia
1986 XXX Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXX National Artist’s Salon), Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
1985 Salon de Arte Joven (Young Art Salon), Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali,
Colombia
PERFORMANCES
2000 Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland.
Cardoso Flea Circus Live ,Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Australia.
1998 Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Quartier D’ete.
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Awesome International Children’s Festival, Perth, Australia.
1997 Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Arts Festival Atlanta.
1996 Cardoso Flea Circus Live, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
1995-1996 Cardoso Flea Circus Live, San Francisco Exploratorium
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Tate Gallery, London
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Gold Coast Art Gallery, Gold Coast
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Miami Art Museum
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá
Daros Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
Miscelaneous Private Collections
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting artist San Francisco Art Institute, 1995
Visiting artist California Institute for the Arts, 1991-1993
Visiting artist Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia 1995
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS and FELLOWSHIPS
Commissioned public art work, One Miami Riverside Walk, USA 2005
First Prize, Jupiter’s Art Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia, 2004
Commissioned wall installation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1999-2000
Represented Colombia for the Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003
Commissioned video work and installation, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA 1996-1997
Artist’s grant from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council, 2001
Artist in residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, 1994
Artist in residence, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA 1994
Artist in residence, San Francisco Artspace, 1993
Artist’s grant from the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, Colombia, 1993
First Prize, II Bogota Bienalle, Mambo, Colombia, 1990
Scholarship Graduate Sculpture Program, Yale University, New Haven, USA 1989-1990
Scholarship Young Talents for Overseas Graduate Studies, Banco de la Republica, Colombia 1987-1989
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1988
Primera Bienal de Arte de Bogotá (exh. cat.). Text by Eduardo Serrano. Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, pp. 18–19.
1990
Arte colombiano de los 80’s: Obras tridimensionales (exh. cat.). Bogotá: Centro Colombo Americano.
Nuevos nombres: Seguimiento: German Nadín Ospina, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Luis Luna, Carlos Salazar, Doris Salcedo, José Antonio Suarez (exh. cat.). Bogotá: Banco de la República, Departamento Editorial.
1991
Guerrero, Maria Teresa. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” Art Nexus 2, pp. 117–118.
1992
Ante América (exh. cat.). Texts by Gerardo Mosquera, José Hernan Aguilar et al.
Bogotá: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, pp. 44–47, 185, 200.
Arte Amazonas: Ein künstlerischer Beitrag zur Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen über Umwelt und Entwicklung „Rio–92“ (exh. cat.). Texts by Gunter Metken, Reynaldo Roels Jr. et al. Brasilia: Goethe Institut, pp. 27, 40, 141–143.
Colombia, Contemporary Images (exh. cat.). New York: Queens Museum of Art, p. 18.
Porges, Maria. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso at San Francisco Artspace.” Artforum International (Dec.), pp. 98–99.
1993
Cartographies (exh. cat.). Texts by Ivo Mesquita et al. Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, pp. 104–109.
Space of Time: Contemporary Art From the Americas. Text by Sandra Antelo–Suarez. New York: Americas Society.
Sokoloff, Ana. “María Fernanda Cardoso. Nohra Haime Gallery.” Art Nexus 9, pp. 198.
1994
Maria Fernanda Cardoso (exh. cat.). Text by Ron Platt. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. List Visual Arts Centre.
Punto de Apoyo: New Narrative in Contemporary Colombian Art (exh. broch.). Text by Ana Sokoloff. New York: Colombian Center.
Ponce de León, Carolina. “María Fernanda Cardoso: Recuerdos del mar.” Poliester 10, pp. 28–31.
1995
Cardoso, María Fernanda. Interview with Robert Enright. “Making a World from Scratch: An Interview with Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” Border Crossings, pp. 38–47.
Gutiérrez, Natalia. “Other Directions—Otras direcciones.” Poliester 12, pp. 16–25.
1996
Cultura vita Natura mors (exh. cat.). Text by Iris Lenz. Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, pp. 8–15, 57–59, 68.
Fuera de límite: Liliana González, María Fernanda Cardoso, Juan Fernando Herrán, Miguel Huertas (exh. cat.). Text by José Ignacio Roca. Bogotá: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, pp. 11–13, 36.
V Bienal de Bogotá (exh. cat.). Text by Gloria Zea et al. Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, pp. 20–21, 65–66.
Sokoloff, Ana. “María Fernanda Cardoso: In Search of Nature.” Art Nexus 20, pp. 68–71.
1997
Cardoso Flea Circus. Philadelphia: The Fabric Workshop and Museum. (Booklet accompanying the Video “Cardoso Flea Circus”, directed by Ross Rudesch Harley and María Fernanda Cardoso)
Así está la cosa: Instalación y arte objeto en América Latina (exh. cat.). Ed. Kurt Hollander, texts by Carolina Ponce de León et al. México, D. F.: Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo, pp. 36, 88.
Arte para Bogotá. Text by María Teresa Guerrero, Álvaro Medina et al. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad Nacional, p. 165.
Ponce de León, Carolina. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” Poliester (Spring), pp. 26–29.
1998
Generación intermedia (exh. cat.). Bogotá: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, pp. 14–15, 63, 76.
Guagnini, Nicolás. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso: New Museum.” Art Nexus 29, pp. 135–136.
LaBelle, Charles. “flea ring.” World Art 18, pp. 44–47.
1999
Arte y violencia en Colombia desde 1948 (exh. cat.) Texts by Gloria Zea, Álvaro Medina et al. Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, pp. 109, 290.
Modern Starts: People, Places, Things (exh. cat.). Ed. John Elderfield, texts by María del Carmen González et al. New York: Museum of Modern Art, pp. 166–69.
2000
Cardoso Flea Circus (exh. cat.). Text by Lynn M. Herbert. Houston, Texas: Contemporary Arts Museum.
Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art (exh. cat.). Texts by Elizabeth Armstrong et al. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 27–32.
Versiones del Sur: No es sólo lo que ves: pervirtiendo el minimalismo (exh. cat.). Texts by Gerardo Mosquera and Lynn Zelevansky. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, pp. 42–49.
Weintraub, David. “Natural Selections.” Art News (May), p. 176.
2001
El final del eclipse: El arte de América Latina en la transición al siglo XXI (ex. cat.). Texts by José Jiménez et al. Madrid: Fundación Telefónica, pp. 132–137, 304–305.
Políticas de la diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo. Texts by José Roca et al. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana.
Retorn al país de les meravelles: L’art contemporani i la infancia (exh. cat.). Text by Lelong Lea Rosson et al. Barcelona: Fundación la Caixa, pp. 23–24, 62–63.
2002
Animalandia (exh. cat.). Text by Jaime Cerón. Bogotá: Instituto Distrital de Cultura y Turismo, pp. 99, 107, 115–116.
New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum (exh. cat.). Ed. Kelly Mitchell. Texts by Mark Rosenthal et al., Interview with Marion Boulton Stroud, Cambridge, Mass, and London: MIT Press, pp. 66–71.
Cardoso, María Fernanda. Interview with Adrianna Herrera. María Fernanda Cardoso. La trasgresión del hábito. Latin Art (June 1)
<http://www.latinart.com/spanish/transcript.cfm?id=40> 29.06.2004 (spanish)
<http://www.latinart.com/transcript.cfm?id=40> 29.06.2004 (english)
Gómez, Fernando. “La domadora.” Revista Gatopardo (March), pp. 102–111.
Rodríguez, Marta. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Galería Diners.” Art Nexus 44, pp. 100–101.
2003
Zoomorphia: Maria Fernanda Cardoso (ex. cat.). Text by Carolina Ponce de León, interview by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor. Sidney: Museum of Contemporary Art.
Archipiélago de imágenes (ex. cat.). Text by Irma Arestizábal (et. al.). Roma: Instituto Italo Latino–Americano IILA, pp. 33–37.
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer. 50th International Art Exhibition. Venezia: Biennale di Venezia, pp. 610–612.
90: Desplazamientos: Arte colombiano en los 90 (exh. cat.). Text by María Elvira Ardila. Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, pp. 75–76, 121.
4a Bienal do Mercosul: Genetic Archaeology. Texts by Nelson Aguilar, Alfons Hug et al. Porto Alegre: Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, pp. 94–95, 364.
“María Fernanda Cardoso: Biogeometrías.” Roca, José. Columna de Arena 56.
“Necrological Flora: Images for a Political Geography of Plants.” Roca, José. ReVista. Harvard Review of Latin America vol. II, no. 3, pp. 31–34.
2004
María Fernanda Cardoso: 20 años (exh. cat.). Bogotá: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango.
Material Witness (exh. cat.). Text by Margo A. Crutchfield. Cleveland, Ohio: Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 20–25.
Cantos Cuentos Colombianos; Contemporary Colombian Art (exh, cat.) Interview with Hans-Michael Herzog. Daros Latinamerica, Zurich pp255-275.
Adam Geczy, 'Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions', Oxford, Berg
Publishers, 2008.
2005
Jaramillo, Carmen Maria. “Other Glances.” Colombia: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pp 66-73.
Bernal, Maria Clara. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso.” Art Nexus 3, no 55, (January-March 2005) pp. 140-141.
2006
Emu next 5km (exh. cat.). Text by Anneke Jaspers. Sydney: GRANTPIRRIE.
Death Becomes Her (exh. cat.). Text by Georgia Connolly. New York: Chelsea Art Museum.
Clement, Tracey. “Maria Fernanda Cardoso: the Art of Camoflage.” Art Gallery Guide Australia, September/October, pp 6-7.
MCA Collection: New Acquisitions 2006. Text by Russell Storer. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, p 6.
Olivares, Rosa (ed.) “100 Latin American Artists.” Madrid: Exit Publishing, pp 102-105
2007
Graciela Kartofel, Maria Fernanda Cardoso-Chelsea Art Museum, Artnexus No. 64 Volume 6, pp 136
“Glimpse: Inside Gold Coast City Art Gallery’s collection.” Gold Coast City Art Gallery, p 17.
Adams, Beverly. “Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art.” Houston: the Museum of Fine Arts, pp 23, 26, 147, 154, 220, 256-257, 262.
“Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Y los ‘machos’ de Australia.” Caras. Mayo 19-Junio 8 de 2007, pp 84-87.
“TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art.” (exh. cat.) Text by Stephanie Hanor. California: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, pp 44-45.