FRANCISCA SUTIL
1952 Born in Santiago, Chile
1977 Moves to New York
1992 Returns to Santiago
EDUCATION
1981 M.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1978 Whitney Museum of Art Seminar, NY
1977 Parsons School of Design, NY
1976 Bellas Artes, Universidad Católica de Santiago, Chile
1972 Southern Methodist University, School of Art, Dallas, TX
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1992 Fondo de Cultura y Desarrollo de las Artes, Santiago
1983 EMF, Artists Space, NY
1981 NEA, Drawing Center (Paper Conservation), NY
1980 Fellowship, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.
1977 Graphic Arts Award, International Biennial, Valparaiso, Chile
1976 Drawing Award, Universidad Católica de Santiago, Chile
1972 Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
THE CRUZ CHAPEL
In 2000, Sutil completed a series of 12 paintings commissioned for a private chapel in Santiago de Chile
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 “Latin Beat,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 Nohra Haime Gallery, “Interlude,” NY
2011 Sala Gasco Arte Contemporáneo, “Mute,” Santiago
2010 Galeria Animal, “Interludio,” Santiago
2007 Nohra Haime Gallery, “Resonance,” NY
2006 Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago
2004 Charles Street Gallery, NY
2003 Galería Animal, "Se Muere Se Acaba," Santiago, Chile
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Transmutations," NY
2000 Galería Tomás Andreu, "Espacios: Pinturas en papel 1997-1999," Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Watercolors from the Spaces Series," NY
1999 The Art Show, Nohra Haime Gallery, "Spaces," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Spaces," NY
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, "Spaces, Works on Paper," NY
1997 Galería Tomás Andreu, "Espejos del Interior," Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Small Format 1988-1997," NY
1996 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Oils à l'Essence," NY
1995 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Celebration," NY
1993 Galería Tomás Andreu, Santiago
1992 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Voices of Silence," NY
1991 Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Galería Epoca, Santiago
1990 Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
1989 Galería Epoca, Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
1987 Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
1985 Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Galería Epoca, Santiago
1982 Pratt Institute, NY
1979 Italian Latin American Institute, Rome, Italy
1978 Galerie C. de la Fontaine, Geneva, Switzerland
1977 Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Galería Epoca, Santiago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 “The Enduring Print,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Works on Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2013 “Latin Beat,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 “AAF – Los Angeles,” Atrium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Objects of Desire,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
“Colectiva,” Galeria Animal, Santiago
“Metamorphosis,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Art Chicago, Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Art Miami, Nohra Haime Gallery, FL
“Pinta,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
“Layered/Boxed,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Circa, Nohra Haime Gallery, Puerto Rico
Art Chicago, Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 “Pinta,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
The Art Show, Armory, Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Art Chicago, Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Selections,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
2007 “International Blitz,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Experimenting,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
LA Art Fair, Nohra Haime Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Presentis Alteratum,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
“Sculpture and Color,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Art20, Armory, Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
“Artists Plates,” Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
2006 "Paper, Paper," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Full Animal,” Galeria Animal, Santiago
Modernism, Armory, Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
“The Pull of the Land,” Pfizer, NY
2005 "Art Palm Beach," Nohra Haime Gallery, Plam Beach, FL
"Arteamerica," Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami, FL
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Salon 2005," NY
2004 El Museo, "New Works from the Permanent Collection," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "In the Back Room," NY
Okaloosa - Walton Art Center, "Past, Present, Future," Niceville, FL
"Chilean Art Crossing Borders," Traveling Exhibition
2003 Gallery of Contemporary Art, "In the Realm of the Absurd," Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, CT
Centro Cultural de Las Condes, "Mirada Austera," Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, "New Work," NY
2002 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Art is Art," NY
2001 IDB, "Paradox and Coexistence: Latin American Art of the Past Two Decades,"
Washington, D.C.
2000 Nohra Haime Gallery, "Visible-Invisible: Four Visions," NY
1999 "Chile-Austria. Ein künstlerischer Dialog,"Landsgalerie, Oberösterrichisches
Landesmuseum Linz, Austria; traveling exhibition to Berlin, Karntner Landesgalerie; Mailand; Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Equilibrium of Senses," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Double Take," NY
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, "Image of Latin America," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Into the New Century," NY
1998 Galería Tomás Andreu, "Arte y Psicopatología," Santiago
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Major Works by Gallery Artists," NY
1997 Castle Art Gallery, "Crossing Borders," College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
FIAC - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Works on Paper, With Paper and Drawings by Gallery
Artists," NY
The Art Show - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "The Power of Color," NY
1996 The Art Show - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Art Chicago - Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago
FIAC - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Fifteenth Anniversary," NY
1995 Rockville Arts Place, "The Black Art Show," Rockville, MD
Art Miami - Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Wax," NY
The Art Show - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Works on Paper - The Armory - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
FIAC - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
AMS Marlborough, "Inaugural Exhibition," Santiago
Instituto Cultural de la Condes, "Aniversario del Mercurio," Santiago
1994 Art Miami - Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami
The Art Show - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
New York Art International - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
FIAC - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
1993 Art Miami - Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Intuitive Perception," NY
The Art Show (Art Dealers Association of America) - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY
Chicago Art Fair - Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago
FIAC - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
1992 Salon de Mars - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
The Gallery Three Zero, "Apocalypse and Resurrection," NY (curated by Douglas
Maxwell)
Nohra Haime Gallery, "10th Anniversary Exhibition," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Summer Pleasures," NY
1991 Art Miami - Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Selections," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Topography of a Landscape," NY
Trenkmann Gallery, "Stark Contrast," NY
Museo de Bellas Artes, "Efectos de Viaje: Artistas Chilenos residents en Nueva
York," Santiago
Jamison Thomas Gallery, "Intimate Relations," NY
Galerie Ruta Correa, "Aspekte Latinamerikanischer Kunst Heute," Freiburg,
Germany
Art Frankfurt, Galerie Ruta Correa, Frankfurt, Germany
1990 Salon de Mars - Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris
Americas Society, "Beyond the Surface: Recent Works by Creus, Rabinovich, Sutil,"
NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Contemporary Prints & Multiples," NY
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Summer Selections," NY
Southeastern Massachusetts Art Gallery, "Poetics of Presence," North Dartmouth,
MA
Nohra Haime Gallery, "Homage to the Square," NY
State University of New York, "Binghamton, NY
Galerie Ruta Correa, Freiburg, Germany
LECTURES
1990 America’s Society, NY
SUNY Binghamton, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Cruz Chapel, Santiago
El Museo, NY
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Universidad Catolica, Santiago
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Armstrong Teasdale, St. Louis
Banco del Estado, Santiago
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, Santiago
IBM, Santiago
O.C.P., Paris
Reader's Digest, NY
SSC & B Lintas Worldwide, NY
St. Joe's Minerals, NY
Shearson Lehman Hutton, Miami
Viñedos Sutil, Santiago
World Bank, Washington D.C.
Xerox Corporation, Stamford
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2010 Buttazzoni, Loreto. “El color y la evolucion en Francisca Sutil,” Exposiciones, El Mercurio, June 6, 2010.
De Rozas, Marilu Ortiz. “Francisca Sutil en Formato mas Intimista,” emol, May 14, 2010. http://emol.chilearte.com/entrevistas/francisca-sutil-en-formato-mas-intimista.html
Goyeneche, Iliona. “Francisca Sutil en Galeria Animal/Interludio,” Portal de Arte, 2010.
Sommer, Waldemar. “Sutil y Quiroga: Fuego y Soledad,” El Mercurio, June 20, 2010.
2008 Donnellan, Terence. “Making an Artful Living,” IN New York, November 2008.
Iriarte, Maria Elvira. “Francisca Sutil: Master of Color,” ArtNexus, No. 68, Vol. 7, April 2008.
2007 Cohen, Ronny. Francisca Sutil: Resonancia, New York, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, May 2007.
Goodman, Jonathan.“Francisca Sutil at Nohra Haime,” Art in America, New York, November 2007.
Iriarte, María Elvira. “Francis Sutil: Master of Color.” Art Nexus (online), December 2007, No. 68.
Villagrán Varela, Soledad. “Sé Que mi Trabajo es Bueno,” V|D El Mercurio, May 5, 2007.
2006 "Alquimia: 25 años de pintura," Santiago: Del Oficio y El Cambio, January 2006, exhibition catalogue.
Art and Auction, New York, December 2006.
Castillo, Marta, “Francisca Sutil y Olimpia Lira: Unidas por el arte,” Detalle, Santiago, Chile, 2006. http://www.revistadetalle.cl/index.php?option=com_content &task=view&id=59&Itemid=45
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Enriquez, Mary Schneider. “Francisca Sutil,” Art Nexus, Ano 2004, No. 52, Vol. 3.
“Francisca Sutil en el Bellas Artes,” Vida Social, El Mercurio, June 28, 2006.
“Francisca Sutil/Retrospectiva,” Nuevo Diseño, June 2006.
Ivelic, Milan, John Yau, Jose Zalaquett and others, Alquimia/Alchemy: Francisca Sutil: 25 Years of Painting, Santiago, Chile: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2006.
Mancilla, Alejandra. "Francisca Sutil: La Alquimista," Caras, Santiago, May 19, 2006.
Miranda, Rodrigo, “Francisca Sutil: Alquimista En Exhibición,” La Tercera, Santiago, Chile, May 7 2006.
Poblete, Joel. “Francisca Sutil, Obsesion Y Rigor,” Capital No 181, Santiago, Chile, 2006.
Sommer, Waldemar. “Apoteosis Del Color En Francisca Sutil,” El Mercurio, Santiago, Chile, June 11, 2006.
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"Francisca Sutil: Mis series pictures son mas viscerales," El Mercurio, Santiago, May 28, 2006.
Valdes, Cecilia. “Francisca Sutil, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,” Arte Al Dia, 2006.
Valenzuela, R. Claudia. “Francisca Sutil,” Diario Financiero, Santiago, Chile, June 23, 2006.
Zaninovic, Maureen Lennon. "Sotheby's en busca de pintores chilenos para su subasta de mayo," El Mercurio, Santiago, January 22, 2006.
2005 Artespacio: “Arte en su Espacio,” Santiago, Chile, Ediciones Artespacio, 2005.
Waissbluth, Veronica. En Obra: talleres y obras. Santiago: Entel, 2005.
2004 "Francisca Sutil: Se Muere se Acaba," Memoria 2003, Santiago: Galeria Animal, 2004.
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Von Hoffman, Nicholas, Geoffrey Bradfield, "A Well Traveled Designer with a Visual Calling," Architectural Digest, March 2004.
2003 Shaw, Edward. "Francisca Sutil: The Consecration of Color," Francisca Sutil:Transmutations, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, October 2003, exhibiton catalogue.
"Colores de Vida y Muerte," El Mercurio, Santiago, April 20, 2003.
Soto, Hector. "Mortalmente Distinta," Capital, Santiago, April 11-24, 2003.
"Los Colores Tienen que Conversar," El Mercurio, Santiago, April 2003.
2002 Aninat, Isabel. Chilean Contemporary Painting - Pintura Chilena Contemporanea. Santiago, Editorial Grijalbo, 2002.
2001 Coleccion Santa-Cruz - Yaconi, Santiago, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, 2001, catalogue.
2000 "Relaciones Armoniosas," El Mercurio, Santiago, March 19, 2000.
Campana, Claudia and Gasper Galaz, Autorretratos - 100 artistas chilenos (2000), Palma- Valdes Galeria de Arte, Santiago, 2000.
Deluca, Giulia. "Gente de Caras," Caras, Santiago, May 29, 2000.
Espacios: Pinturas en Papel 1997-1999. Galería Tomás Andreu, Santiago, Chile, May-June 2000, exhibition catalogue.
Nachmani, Cynthia. "Francisca Sutil: Abstraction Both Ways: Watercolors from the "Spaces" Series, Francesca Sutil, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, 2000, exhibition catalogue.
Pena, Silvia. "Ser Mujer Ayuda Mas Que Perjudica," Caras, Santiago, May 29, 2000.
"Pinturas Desde el Interior," El Metropolitano, Santiago, May 29, 2000.
"De Lose Alpes a Los Andes," El Mercurio, Santiago, April 2, 2000.
Zalaquett, Jose. "Arte por Encargo," Que Pasa, Santiago, May 27, 2000.
"Nuevos y Mejores Llogros," Que Pasa, Santiago, May 27, 2000.
"Francisca Sutil en la Capilla Cruz," Capital, Santiago, September 14-27, 2000.
1999 Aprile di Cimita, Ruggero and Matilde Battistini. Ovazione. Milan, Electa Editore, 1999.
Assmann, Peter; Milan Ivelic, Georg Schollhammer, Juan Pastor Mellado and Burghardt Schmidt. Chile: Austria Ein Kunstlerischer Dialog, Linz, Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, January - March 1999, exhibition catalogue.
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Vincent, Steven. "Double Shot for Francisca Sutil," Art & Auction, New York, October 1, 1999.
"Remarkable Spaces," Spaces. New York: Nohra Haime Gallery, 1999, exhibition catalogue.
1998 Sesudas, "Academia y cultura," Capital, Santiago, August 1998, p.50.
Wilson, Georgia, et al. Arte y Psicopatologia, Santiago, Galeria Tomas Andreu, September 1998, exhibition catalogue.
1997 Abell Sophia, Maria Carolina. "Color, Llave al Espiritu," Artes y Letras-El Mercurio, Santiago: May 4, 1997.
Doberti, Paola. "La Forma del Conocimiento," Capital, Santiago, April 1997.
Mena, Catalina. "Francesca Sutil, Artista: Puedo Vivir del Arte," Caras, Santiago, March 31, 1997.
"Criticas: Francesca Sutil," Artes Plasticas - El Mercurio, Santiago, May 4, 1997.
1996 Bowyer Bell, J. "Francisca Sutil," Review, New York, October 1, 1996.
Diaz, Rafael. "Review: Francisca Sutil: Celebrations," Arts Magazine, New York, Jan/Feb 1996.
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Ibertti, Ceina. "Pincel Internacional," Que Pasa, Santiago, October 28, 1995.
Pino, Paola. "Mirada Sutil," Que Pasa, Santiago, October 28, 1995.
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1993 Garfias, Hernan. "Francisca Sutil Sintetizando el Color," Diseño, Santiago, November 1993.
"El Gran Cambio de Francisca Sutil," El Pais, Santiago, December 15, 1993.
Palacios, Jose Maria. "Francisca Sutil y Las Sutilezas del Hacer Pictorico…" Diario La Segunda, Santiago, December 1993.
Soffia, Maria Carolina Abell. "Forma y Color: Expresion," El Mercurio, Santiago, November 15, 1993.
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1992 Kuspit, Donald. "Francisca Sutil/Nohra Haime Gallery," Artforum, New York, December 1992.
Maxwell, Douglas F. Apocalypse and Resurrection. New York: The Gallery Three Zero, 1992, exhibition catalogue for Amfar benefit.
Slatin, Peter. "Intuitive Perception/Nohra Haime," The New York Times, New York, October 9, 1992.
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"Galerie Ruta Correa: Abstrakt," Freizeit & Kultur, Merzhausen, December 1991.
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Molnar, Thomas. "Ideología Ha Muerto Viva La Ideología," Domingo, Santiago, April 1990.
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Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, 1990, exhibition catalogue.
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