LIKA MUTAL

 

Born in the Netherlands in 1939

Moves to Lima, Peru in 1968

Moves to New York in 1986

Lives and works in New York and Lima, Peru

 

EDUCATION

 

Bonifacius College, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Art and Drama Studies, Utrecht and Amsterdam, The Netherlands

School of Fine Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Columbia

School of Fine Arts, Universidad Catolica, Lima, Peru

Studies Sculpture with Anna Maccagno

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2008 Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso, Lima, Peru

“La Tentacion de la Piedra,” Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile

2007 “Del espacio sagrado, de las piedras soñadas, del Munay,” Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2006 Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2003 Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2000 “The Mirror of My Faceless Face,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1996 “Stone Sculpture 1975-1995,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1995 “Stone Sculpture 1979-1994,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Lika Mutal: Stone Sculpture,” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa

1993 “Stone Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1990 “Recent Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery New York

1989 “Silent Stone,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1986 “Recent Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery New York

1984 Nohra Haime Gallery New York

1983 Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris

1982 Galeria Forum, Lima

1981 Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague

1980 Galeria Forum, Lima

FIAC- Galerie Daniel Gervis, Grand Palais, Paris

1978 Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands

1976 Galerie Daniel Gervis, Paris, France

1974 Galerie D’Eendt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1972 Galeria Carlos Rodriguez, Lima, Peru

 

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2015 “Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2013 “Dealer’s Choice,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

“Latin Beat,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

“Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

2010 Art Chicago, Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Metamorphosis,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

2008 “Pinta,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Selections,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

Pulso de la Montana - Centro Cultural Inca Garcilaso del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, bi-personal en el marco de la V Cumbre ALC-UE, Lima, Peru

2006 “Fram Calder to Bolla,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium

“Sculpture in Four Dimensions,” Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.

“Past, Present, Future,” Okaloosa-Walton Art Center, Niceville, FL

“In the Back Room,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

2003 Tefaf, Fondation Veranneman, Maastricht, The Netherlands

“Selections,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“3D,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2002 “Paradox and Coexistence: Latin American Art of the Past Two Decades,” IDB, Washington, D.C.

Galerie Laimbock, Langrock, Holland

“Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Art is Art,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“From Nature,” A.V.C. Contemporary, New York

“International Sculpture,” Wassenaar Town Hall, Wassenaar, Holland

“Arte de la America Latina,” Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

2001 Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium

“Major New Works,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“El libro del artista,” Galeria de arte Petroperu, Lima, Peru

2000 “Into the New Century,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Living with Form: The Horn Collection,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK

1999 “Equuilibrium of the Senses,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Mastering the Millennium: Art of The Americas,” The World Bank, Washington

“Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Summer Exhibition,” Auto Pon Gallery, Leusden, The Netherlands

“Homenaje a la piedra,” El Ofo Afeno, Lima, Peru

1998 “Bienal de Arte y empresa: Contemporaneidad de Chancai,” Lima, Peru

“Accrochage,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

FIAC, Paris

1997-98 “Women in image,” Beelden aan Zee Museum, El Scheveningen, Holland

1997 “The Power of Color,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

Primera Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Lima

1996 Art Chicago – Nohra Haime Gallery, Chicago

“Fifteenth Anniversary,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1995 The Art Show – Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

“Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Mone-Carlo,” Fondation

Prince Pierre de Monaco, Sporting d’Hiver, Monte Carlo

1994 Biennale Sculptuur 94, Amsterdam, Holland

FIAC – Nohra Haime Gallery, Paris

1993 Art Miami – Nohra Haime Gallery, Miami, Florida

IVeme Biennale de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo

“Twentieth Century Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallelry, New York

1992 “Mutal/Van Alstine/Vari,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Miniature-Museum,” Reflex Modern Art Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1991 “Topography of a Landscape,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1990 “Long, Mutal, Ruckriem – Floor Works,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties,” Organization of American States, Washington D.C.

1989 “The Art of Peru,” Galerie D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada “Selections,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1987 “Fifth Anniversary Exhibition,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Small Sculpture,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

“Bienal de Trujillo,” Trujillo, Peru

RVS Fine Arts, Southampton

1986 “Kunstenaarskeuze ’86: Geurts, Mutal, Schuil,” Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pulitzer Art Gallery, Amsterdam

CAF – Nohra Haime Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985 “GalleryArtists Recent Work,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York

1984 “2eme Biennale Europeenne de Sculpture de Normandie,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Jouy-sur-Eure

1983 FIAC – Galerie Daniel Gervis, Grand Palais, Paris

1982 “3000 Anos de Escultura Peruana,” Museo de Arte Lima

 

AWARDS

 

2007 Jose Maria Arguedas Prize for El ojo que Llora, Lima

2003-6 Creation of the Memorial EL OJO QUE LLORA, that honors the victims of the terrorism in Peru from 1980 to 2000 – An overwhelming number of articles have appeared on this work

1994 Royal Ueno Museum Prize, Fujisankei Viennale, Japan

1992 Excellent Maquette, Fujisankei Biennale, Japan

1987 Premio Camacho, Lima Peru

1970 First Sculpture Prize, Universidad Catolica, Lima

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Centre Georges Pompidou – Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

City of Lima, Peru

City of Utrecht, The Netherlands

City of Oporto, Portugal

Faret Tachikawa, City of Tachikawa, Japan

Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Universidad Catolica, Lima, Peru

Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Japan

 

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

 

Adbanta Corporation, Miami

Confiep, Lima, Peru

Dennendael B.V., Gravenhage, The Netherlands

Grand Cypress Resort, Orlando, FL

Nike Building Terrace, Queen’s Square, Yokohama, Japan

TNN, Tokyo, Japan

TransPotomac Canal Center, Alexandria, VA

 

SELECTED PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS

 

1998 Museo de Lima

1997 City of Lima

1990-4 Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. (garden)

1984 City of Lima

 

LECTURES

 

1999 “Encountering Art,” Miho Museum, Kyoto, Japan

1998 “Finding the Sacred Through Art—The Value of Values,” The New York Historical Society, Ruder-Finn’s 50th Anniversary

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2008 Armendariz Azcarate, Maite. “Esculturas de Lika Mutal llegan a Chile junto a grabados de Vasarely,” El Mercurio, July 27 2008.

Llosa, Mario Vargas. Lika Mutal: La tenacion de la piedra. Santiago, Chile: Galeria Patricia Ready, 2008, exhibition catalogue.

Sommer, Waldermar. “Entrana (entrania) de piedra,”El Mercurio, Santiago, August 10, 2008.

2007 Lika Mutal: Del Espacio Sagrado, de las Piedras Sonadas, del Munay. Lima: Galeria Lucia de la Puente, November 8 - December 8, 2007.

Vargas Llosa, Marius. “El Ojo que Llora,” La Nacion, Lima, January 27, 2007.

2002 Sokoloff, Ana. Arte de America Latina, Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, October 2002,

exhibition catalogue.

2001 Koyama, Iroho, David Finn, Thomas M. Messer and others, Encountering Art. The Miho Museum, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 2001.

Mutal, Lika. “Stones are My Teachers,” Encountering Art. Miho Museum, The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 2001.

2000 Falkenstein, Michelle. “Lika Mutal,” Artnews, New York, June 2000.

Kartofel, Graciela. “New York Reviws: Lika Mutal,” Art Nexus, Bogota, August- October, 2000.

Landi, Ann. “New York Reviews” Artnews, New York, June 2000.

Rubiano Caballero, German.. Arte de America Latina, 1981-2000. Washington, D.C. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo.

1999 Escallon, Ana Maria and Artemis Zenetou. Mastering the Millenium: Art of the Americas, Washington D.C., OAS and The World Bank, 1999.

“Mastering the Millenium, Art of the Americas,” The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, May 9 – August 9, 1999, exhibition catalogue.

1998 Frost, Peter. “Lika Mutal: Roots of Stone,” Rumbos, Lima 3rd year, No.12, 1998.

Lambert, Jean Clarence. Le Reigne Imaginaire, Paris, 1998.

Oviedo, Jose Miguel.. “Diez Reflecciones Sobre un Extrano Pais Propio,” Quehacer, Lima, 1998.

1997 Primera Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Peru, 1997.

Rodriguez Saavedra, Carlos. “Dialogo con la Piedra,” Arkinka, Lima, March 1997.

1996 Angeline, John. “Lika Mutal at Nohra Haime,” Art Nexus, Bogota, July-September 1996.

Bayly, Doris. “Praderas de Piedra : Los Paisajes Inmutables de Lika Mutal,” Somos, El Comercio, Lima, October 12, 1996.

DeFerrari,Gabriella and Merriam Dena. Lika Mutal. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1996.

Holland, Gill. “Lika Mutal: Freeing the form, a modern master mixes meanings,” Cover, New York, September 1996.

Itoi, Kay. “A Forest of Public Art,” Sculpture Magazine, Washington D.C., April 1996.

Koplos, Janet. “Lika Mutal at Nohra Haime,” Art in America, New York, September 1996.

“Lika Mutal Stone Sculpture at The Nohra Haime Gallery,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly, Newton, April 19,1996.

“Lika Mutal”, Publisher’s Weekly, New York, May 27, 1996.

Maris, Kathryn. “Lika Mutal at Nohra Haime,” Art & Auction, New York, May 1996.

Morgan Barclay, Anne, “Lika Mutal-Nohra Haime Gallery,” Sculpture Magazine, Washington D.C., October 1996.

1995 "Corazon Abstracto del Condor," El Diario, Lima, January 17, 1995.

Kimura, Mitsuhiro and Fram Kitagawa, Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Tokyo, Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers, November 1995.

Morgan Barclay, Anne "Maze & Labyrinth",Sculpture Magazine, Washington D.C., July- August 1995.

1994 Cooper Llosa, Frederick. "Una Casa y Un Jardin de Las Delicias," El Comercio, Lima, January 5, 1994.

"La cocina de una artista," El Comercio, Lima, September 28, 1994.

Lujambio, Mariana. "Los Diez Años de Nohra Haime en Nueva York," Casas & Gente, Mexico, May 1994.

Llosa, Frederick Cooper. "Una Casa y un Jardin de las Delicias," El Comercio. Lima, January 5, 1994.

Montealegre, Samuel. "Peru. Arte," Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti," Rome Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Giovanni Treccani,1994, Vol IV P-S.

1993 Adelson, Fred B. Constructures. Philadelphia, PA: Port of History Museum, 1993, exhibition catalogue.

Finn, David. "Enduring Images," The Earth Times, New York, October 24, 1993, vol. V, no. 33.

Garcia-Cisneros, Florencio. "Ronda de Galerias," Noticias de Arte, New York, May 1993.

Mutal, Lika. "Lika Mutal: Camino al Corazon de la Piedra," Lundero, Peru, September 26, 1993.

1991 Sologuren, Javier. "Poesia: Lika Mutal Respira en Otra Ola," Lundero (Suplemento Cultural de "La Industria"), Lima, August 25, 1991.

1990 Rodriguez, Belgica. Sculpture of the Americas into the Nineties. Washington, D.C.:

Organization of American States, June 7 - September 5, 1990, exhibition catalogue.

Rubiano Caballero, German. "Benito Rosas, Esculturas," Arte en Colombia, Bogota, No. 43, February 1990.

1989 Lika Mutal: Silent Stone. New York: Nohra Haime Gallery, March 15 - April 15, 1989, exhibition catalogue.

Oviedo, Jose Miguel. "La Edad de la Piedra, The Age of Stone," Review. New York: Americas Society, June 1989.

Seggerman, Helen Louise. "Letter from New York," Tableau, Amsterdam, February 1989.

Waterman, Daniel. "New York Reviews: Lika Mutal," Artnews, New York, September 1989.

1988 Quipus II/Lika Mutal," Grand Cypress Resort Art Collection. Orlando, FL: Grand Cypress Resort, 1988.

1987 Cohen, Ronny. "New York Reviews: Lika Mutal," Artforum, New York, February 1987.

Karafel, Lorraine. "New York Reviews: Lika Mutal," Artnews, New york February 1987.

Langland, Harold R. Sculpture. New York: Prentice Hall, 1987.

Shapiro, Alice. “Nohra Haime Gallery: Art on the Edge," Artspeak, New York, May 1987.

1986 Boyens, Jose. "La Pierre Porteuse d'Esprit - La Sculpture de Lika Mutal," Septentrion Netherlands, 15th year, No. 1, 1986.

C.S. De Druppel Holt de Steen Uit. Heino, The Netherlands: Uitgeverij van Spijk, 1986.

Guntenaar, Ben; Lucasson and Roseland, Jan. Kunstenaarskeuze '86: Geurts, Mutal, Schuil. Amsterdam: Galerie Espace, 1986, exhibition catalogue.

Lika Mutal: Recent Sculpture. New York: Nohra Haime Gallery, November 5-29, 1986. exhibition catalogue.

Rubiano Caballero, German. La Escultura en America Latina, Siglo XX, Bogota: Universidad de Colombia, 1986.

Van Beek, Marius. "Alle Inspiratie is Aanwezig in Een Blok Steen," Kunstbeeld,

November 1986.

1985 Vallada, Paulo. Simposio Internacional de Escultura em Pedra /International Symposium on Sculpture in Stone. Oporto, Portugal: Centro de Arte Comunicacao Visual, 1985, exhibition catalogue.

1984 Jungschlaeger, Ineke. "De Steen is Jaloers, de Beitels Huilen," N.R.C. Handelsblad, Rotterdam, May 11, 1984.

Lama, Luis. "Del Mundo," Caretas, Lima, March 19, 1984.

1983 Vargas Llosa, Mario. "Lika Mutal o la Tentacion de la Piedra," Armitano Arte, Caracas, No. 6, October 1983.

1982 Lama, Luis. "Extraordinaria Lika, "Caretas, Lima, August 16, 1982.