Carlos Capelán Biography

Montevideo, Uruguay 1948

Established Uruguayan artist with international fame.

He has been living in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Lund, Sweden, and in Moravia, Costa Rica.

He studied at the Grafikskolan Forum, Malmo, in Sweden, and has worked with the professor of Vestland's Art Academy in Bergen, Norway.

Selected Individual Exhibitions:

2006 - PicassoMio.com. - onlyyou / always there, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica. - onlyyou / back to the horizon, Museo de Antropologia y de Arte Contemporaneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador - Carlos Capelan, dpm - arte contemporaneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

2005 - onlyyou / a certain notion of place, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay. - onlyyou / nobody was there, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. - onlyyou, and there was somebody there (or, 11,285 nights), Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile. - onlyyou, dematerialisation, rematerialisation, immaterialisation, Fundacion AtlanticaTransArt, Santiago, Chile.

2004 - onlyyou, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, Inglaterra. - Ceci n'est pas un video, Den 1a pa Moderna, Moderna Museet, Estocolmo, Suecia. - Ceci n'est pas un video - or, do natives have a soul?, Galerie Leger, MAlmo, Suecia.

2003 - onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Galeria Fucares, Madrid, España. - Sin ti, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Galeria Trinta, Santiago de Compostela, España.

2002 - onlyyou, paintings, drawings, objects and installations, Bildmuseet, Umea, Suecia. - eisoptrophobia - installations and drawings, Galleri s.e, Bergen, Noruega. - Low Tide / Technologies, Gary Nader Fine Arts, Miami, Estados Unidos.

2001 - Post-Colonial Liberation Army (rematerializacion) - objetos artisticos, Galeria Angel Romero, Madrid, España.

2000 - Galerie Leger, Malmo, Suecia. - Jet Lag Mambo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Noruega.

1999 - Hommage to the Native Nations of Germany (1999) , WeltSichten, IFA Galerie, Berlin, Alemania. - 400 metros al norte del quiosco del Morazan, Fundacion Teor/eTica, San Jose, Costa Rica.

1998 - Galeria David Perez-MacCollum, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

1997 - A painting representing space, New Work Series, Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Miami, Estados Unidos. - Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Monique Knowlton, New York, Estados Unidos. - Die Welt als Vorstellung, Galerie Leger, Malmoe, Suecia. - Galeria Caracol, Zaragoza, España. - La casa de la memoria, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, España. - Galerie Le Monde de l'Art, Paris, Francia.

Works in Museums and Collections: - Museum of Modern Art, Estocolmo, Suecia. - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay. - Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.

. - Art Museum of Gothemburg, Suecia. - Art Museum of Sodertalje, Suecia. - Dunkers konstmuseum, Helsingborg, Suecia. - Statens Konstrad, Suecia. - City of Lund, Suecia. - Casa de las Americas, La Habana, Cuba. - Centro Wifredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba. - Art School of Havana, La Habana, Cuba. - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, España. - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela, España. - Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Estados Unidos. - Daniel y Elita Yankelewitz Collection, San Jose, Costa Rica. - Greger & Ulla Olsson Collection, Malmo, Suecia. - Peter Menendez Collection, Miami, Estados Unidos. - Edgar Gunther Collection, Paris, France and New York, Estados Unidos. - Jaime del Hierro Collection, Guayaquil, Ecuador. - Fundacion Teor/eTica, San Jose, Costa Rica. - Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, España. - Museo de Antropologia y Arte Contemporaneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador. - Coleccion David Goldbaum, Guayaquil, Ecuador.