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CURRICULUM VITAE

BIOGRAPHY

 

American (b.1966  Vancouver, Canada, raised 1967 San Juan, Puerto Rico)

1987 University of Puerto Rico, B.A., magna cum laude

1986 Harry S. Truman Scholarship Congressional Award (For Puerto Rico)

1990 Southwestern University School of Law, J.D

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

LAND ART / PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

INSTITUTO ARTIUM DE CULTURA, MATÉRIA PRIMA, São Paulo, Brazil, August 24 - November 23, 2024

MUSEU NACIONAL DA REPÚBLICA, PLASMÁTICO: EL CUARTO ESTADO DE MATÉRIA (PLASMATIC: THE FOURTH STATE OF MATTER), Brasília, Brazil, Sculptural Installation activating the Monumental Axis of Brasília, a Unesco World Hertiage Site, March 21- June 2, 2024

RECLAIMED STONES: FOUNDATIONS OF CIVILIZATION, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, Part of IF THE WALLS COULD TALK, Art D'Egypte, The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, Unesco Historic Site Intervention and Public Art Project, October - December 2023

ONE THOUSAND GALAXIES OF LIGHT (STARFIELD), NOOR RIYADH, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Site-Specific Light Activation and Installation on a two-mile stretch of Riyadh's Wadi Hanifa Waterway, November 2022

GODHEADS - IDOLS IN TIMES OF CRISES, LUSTWARANDE, Sculptural Installation in the De Oude Warande Baroque Forest, Tilburg, The Netherlands, June 24 - October 1, 2022

FOREVER IS NOW (ETERNITY NOW), Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt, Unesco World Heritage Site Installation, October 23 – November 7, 2021

QUANTUM SHIFT, FRIEZE SCULPTURE LONDON, Regent’s Park, London, September 16 – November 3, 2021

THE FUTURE IS NOW, DESERT X ALULA 2020, AlUla, Saudi Arabia, Land Art Installation in AlUla Desert, Ancient Trade (Spice) Route Archeological Site, January 31 - March 7, 2020

BIENNIALS

2024

HAVANA BIENNIAL, XV BIENAL DE LA HABANA - HORIZONTES COMPARTIDOS, La Habana, Cuba,

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Curaduría José Manuel Noceda, November 15, 2024 - February 28, 2025

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

MATÉRIA PRIMA, INSTITUTO ARTIUM, Saõ Paulo, Brazil, August 27 - November 23, 2024

O QUARTO ESTADO DA MATÉRIA, Galería Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo, Brazil, August 24 - October 17, 2024

MOUNTAINS ARE INSIDE ME, Efraín López, New York, New York, April 30 - June 28, 2024

MATÉRIA PRIMA, MUSEU NACIONAL DA REPÚBLICA, Brasilia, Brazil, March 21- June 2, 2024

2022

THE FEMINIST DIVINE, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, August 10, 2022 - January 16, 2023

ZENITH, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, Florida, March 17 - 30, 2022

 

2021

GISELA COLÓN: QUANTUM SHIFT, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, Reston, Virginia (Washington DC), March 6 - August 27, 2021

2020

GISELA COLÓN: EXISTENTIAL TIME, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, Florida, December 3, 2020

- January 3, 2021

GISELA COLÓN: RECTANGULOID, QUINT ONE, La Jolla, California, September 16 - October 2020 

GISELA COLON: META MINIMAL, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, California, January 11- March 7, 2020 

2019

HYPER-MINIMAL, Peyrassol Sculpture Park, Flassans-sur-Issole, Provence, France,

June 20 - September 19, 2019

GISELA COLON : HYPER-MINIMAL (With CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ: LABYRINTH) , Galerie Valerie Bach,

La Patinoire Royale, Brussels, Belgium, April 24- July 27, 2019

GISELA COLON: PODS, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana, January 18 - August 24, 2019

GISELA COLON: THE NEW MINIMAL, GAVLAK, Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2018  - January 29, 2019

2018   

GISELA COLON: PODS, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, September 29 - December 16, 2018

GISELA COLON: PODS, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota, March 2 - July 8, 2018

ZONA MACO, Mexico City, Mexico, Solo Presentation, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, February 2018

GISELA COLON: NEW SCULPTURE, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 20 - March 10, 2018

 

2017   

PODS, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas, December 15, 2017- February 4, 2018

GISELA COLON: ATMOSPHERES, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 20 - August 26, 2017

PODS, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, March 7 - August 13, 2017

HYPER-MINIMAL, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 7 - February 18, 2017

 

2016   

PODS, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York, August 21, 2016 - February 12, 2017

PODS, International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, Texas, April 14 – August 7, 2016

 

2015   

PODS, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 15, 2015 - March 14, 2016

PODS, ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, January 22 - July 29, 2015

 

2014   

COLORIMETRY, Museum of Art & History (MOAH), Lancaster, California, January 18 – March 16, 2014

 

2013   

GLO-PODS, Quint Gallery, San Diego, California, November 2, 2013 – January 4, 2014

 

2012   

PODS, Museum of Art & History (MOAH), Lancaster, California, December 6, 2012 – March 7, 2013

LARGE PODS, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, California, October 23 – January 2013

2011

CHROMATIC COOL, Andi Campognone Projects, Pomona, California, March – April 2011

RAW GEOMETRY, Madison Gallery, La Jolla (San Diego), California, September 2011

2010

CHROMATIC INDUCTION, Swenson Gallery, Orange County, California, October - November 2010

2009

ORO LÍQUIDO: THE LATEST POUR, David Lawrence Gallery, Los Angeles, California, May – June 2009

2008

KINETIC LIGHT, LS Contemporary Art of the Americas, Los Angeles, California, April – May 2008

LUZ LÍQUIDA (LIQUID LIGHT), Petrus Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico, September 2008

ABSTRACTIONS OF LIGHT, Preston Contemporary Art Center, Mesilla, New Mexico, July -September 2008

2007

URBAN INSTINCTS, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California, April 2007

2006

GISELA COLÓN: TROPICALÍA, MLA Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, California, 2006

GISELA COLÓN: PAINTINGS, AR&S Gallery, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, 2006

2005

TROPICALÍSSIMO, Soho Gallery, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, 2005

2004

Gisela Colón: Paintings, JGlowienke, Orange County, California, 2004

1999

Colón Oil Paintings, Brewery Project Space, Los Angeles, California, 1999

1998

Colón Abstractions, MLA Project Space, Venice, California, 1998

1997

Gisela Colón, MLA Project Space, Venice, California, 1997

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

HAVANA BIENNIAL, XV BIENAL DE LA HABANA - SHARED HORIZONS, Curated by José Manuel Noceda, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, November 15, 2024 - February 28, 2025

IN THE MAKING: CONTEMPORARY ART AT SBMA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, July 21, 2024 - March 9, 2025

PROSPECT 2024, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, San Diego, California, June 1 - September 22, 2024

2023

RECLAIMED STONES: FOUNDATIONS OF CIVILIZATION, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, Part of IF THE WALLS COULD TALK, Art D'Egypte, The Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, Unesco Historic Site Intervention and Public Art Project, October - December  2023

HISTORIAS / HISTORIES, CHRISTIE'S, New York, New York, September 23 - October 22, 2023

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL: REFRAMING LA COLECCIÓN, El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York, May 18 - March 10, 2024

WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART, PERMANENT COLLECTION, Hartford, Connecticut, July 2023 - Ongoing

NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, PERMANENT COLLECTION, Palm Beach, Florida, March 2023 - Ongoing

DESERT X at CHRISTIE'S, Christie's, Los Angeles, California, February 13 - March 10, 2023

THINK PINKER, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, February 14 - March 25, 2023, Curated by Beth De Woody

ART & ARCHITECTURE, Peter Blake Curates William F. Cody House, Palm Springs, California, February 10 - March 31, 2023

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS, Marlborough, New York, New York, January 24 - March 11, 2023

 

2022

FROM SPARK TO SPIRIT, NOOR RIYADH, Jax District 01, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 3, 2022 -

February 4, 2023

TERMS OF BELONGING, Gavlak, Los Angeles, October 22 - December 10, 2022

WHAT WAS & WHAT COULD BE, Cairo International Arts District, Art D'Egypte, October 1 -30, 2022

PERMANENT COLLECTION, MINT MUSEUM, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 2022 - March 2023 

WE ARE LA: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN FOUNDATION, California State University Los Angeles, August 1 - October 22, 2022

LIGHT, SPACE, SURFACE: WORKS FROM THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, June 3 - September 6, 2022

LUMINARIES OF LIGHT AND SPACE, Los Angeles County LAX Initiative, Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles, California, 2022- 2024

REIMAGINED LANDSCAPES, CALDERÓN GALLERY, New York, NYC, May 17 - July 2, 2022

HUMAN NATURES, MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY, Lancaster, California, May 14 - August 21, 2022

 

2021

LIGHT, SPACE, SURFACE: WORKS FROM THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, November 23, 2021 - March 20, 2022

TRACES ON THE SURFACES OF THE WORLD, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, California, March 13 - April 24, 2021

MAGIC DANCE, LA LOUVER, Venice, California, March 9 - May 1, 2021

2020

NASTY WOMEN, GAVLAK, Los Angeles, California, October 31 - December 12, 2020

IN VIVID COLOR: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PERCEPTION IN CONTEMPORARY ART, The Mint Museum (Uptown), Charlotte, North Carolina, October 16, 2020 - March 6, 2021

45 AT 45, LA LOUVER, Venice, California, October 6 2020 - January 2021 

A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING: VOICES OF UNREST IN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE; 20 YEARS OF THE BETH RUDIN DEWOODY COLLECTION, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, October 3, 2020 - February 7, 2021

THE LIGHT OF SPACE, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California, February 8 - April 19, 2020

MOVING ATMOSPHERES, La Patinoire Royale / Galerie Valerie Bach, BRAFA, Tour & Taxis,

Brussels, Belgium, January 25- February 2, 2020

BEYOND EMBODIMENT, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, California, January 25 - March 20, 2020

 

2019

INAUGURAL GAVLAK LOS ANGELES, October 26 - 2019 

CRYSTALS IN ART: ANCIENT TO TODAY,  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 12, 2019 - January 2020

THE EDGE OF LIGHT: HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON CALIFORNIA ABSTRACTION, Huntington Beach Art Center, Curated by Peter Blake, September 21 - October 26, 2019

EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois, GAVLAK GALLERY, September 18 - 22, 2019

PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY AESTHETICS MATERIALS, Chazen Museum of Art, 

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin September 13 - January 5, 2020

LA BIENNALE PARIS, La Patinoire Royale-Galerie Valerie Bach, Paris, France, September 12 -17, 2019

MADE IN CALIFORNIA: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE FREDERICK WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION, Barrett Art Gallery Santa Monica College, Curated by Billie Milam Weisman, August 27 - December 6, 2020

BRAVE NEW WORLDS: EXPLORATIONS OF SPACE, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, June 1 - December 15, 2019.

PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY AESTHETICS MATERIALS, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, February 8 - July 28, 2019

CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ & GISELA COLON, Galerie Valerie Bach, BRAFA, Tour & Taxis, Brussels,

Belgium, January 23- February 3, 2019

 

2018   

THE BUNKER ARTSPACE: COLLECTION OF BETH RUDIN DEWOODY, New Wave Art Wknd, Palm Beach, Florida, November 30 - Ongoing 2019

INAUGURAL GROUP SHOW, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, November 10 - December 22, 2018

PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY AESTHETICS MATERIALS, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art,

University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, September 22 - December 30, 2018

RADIANT SPACE, Lesley University College of Art & Design, University Hall, VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 4 - October 7, 2018

WATER AND LIGHT, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, July 8 - September 8, 2018

DALLAS ART FAIR, Dallas, Texas, McClain Gallery, April 2018

PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY AESTHETICS MATERIALS, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, Pennsylvania, February 13 - June 17, 2018

 

2017

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE WEISMAN FOUNDATION, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, August 29 - December 10, 2017

CALIFORNIA CONNECTIONS: SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (MCASD), The California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California, July 7 - August 27, 2017

PERMANENT COLLECTION, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, June - September 2017 

TRANS-ANGELES: CROSSOVER EXPERIMENTATION, Neuer Kunstverein, Kunstlanding, Aschaffenburg, Germany, May - July 2017

ON THE ROAD: AMERICAN ABSTRACTION, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, March 18 - April 22, 2017

PERMANENT COLLECTION, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, January 2017 - present

 

2016   

COLLECTION, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California, October 2016

PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 1 - October 30, 2016

RADIANT SPACE, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, May 7, 2016 - August 13, 2016

MADE IN CALIFORNIA: SELECTIONS FROM THE WEISMAN FOUNDATION, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, January - August 2016

TRANS-ANGELES: CROSSOVER EXPERIMENTATION, Chabot Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March - June 2016 

 

2015

MADE IN CALIFORNIA: SELECTIONS FROM THE WEISMAN FOUNDATION, Mana Contemporary @ Art Basel Miami, Florida, December 2015

ATMOSPHERIC ABSTRACTION, Quint Gallery, San Diego, California, December 12, 2015 – January 20, 2016 

 

2014   

TRANS-ANGELES: CROSSOVER EXPERIMENTATION, Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner Haus, Soest, Germany, April 2014

LIGHT & SPACE SELECTIONS, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California, November - April 2016

2013

SPECTRA, San Diego State University, Downtown Gallery, San Diego, California

JUBILAUMSAUSSTELLUNG, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

2012

SMOOTH OPERATIONS: SUBSTANCE AND SURFACE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART, Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA

2010

Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, July – August 2010

David Lawrence Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010

MLA Gallery, Downtown Los Angeles, 2010

2009

LAX Beyond Abstraction, Madison Gallery, La Jolla (San Diego), July 2009

2008

Awards ‘08 Exhibition, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA, September 2008

Liquid Supercool: Six Artists Working in Resin, William Turner Gallery, September 2008

2007

New Works, New Forms: A Celebration of Five Female Artists, Art Expressions, San Diego, CA

2006

Latin American Artists, MLA Gallery. Downtown Los Angeles, CA

2005

Tropicalíssimo II, Soho Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004

New Abstractions, JGlowienke, Orange County, California, 2004

1999

Latin American Paintings, Brewery Project Space, Los Angeles, California, 1999

1998

Abstractions, MLA Project Space, Venice, California, 1998

1997

Latin American Works, MLA Project Space, Venice, California, 1997

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024

GREAT WOMEN SCULPTORS, PHAIDON, September 24, 2024

Folha de Sâo Paulo, Quem é Gisela Colón artista que exorcisa traumas por meio de obras futuristas, August 2024

Veja Sâo Paulo, Porto-riquenha Gisela Colón exibe duas exposições em São Paulo, August 2024

DAS ARTES, Gisela Colón, Instituto Artium, August 25, 2024

PLUS, Transformative Art: Gisela Colón on Ecofeminism, History, and Healing, 2024

Arte Realizzata, An Interesting Conversation with Gisela Colón, May 23, 2024

CULTURED, Cultured and Giampiero Tagliaferri Fête the Light and Space Movement with a New Show In LA, May 30, 2024

ARTNews, Seven Tribeca Shows to Catch This Week, Francesca Aton, May 1, 2024

Family Style, A Return to Dirt, Words by Meka Boyle, April 25, 2024

Correio Brasiliense, Exposição no museu da República fala sobre interação entre homem e meio, March 22, 2024

2023

The Latinx Project, The Fourth State of Matter: A Conversation with Gisela Colón, Teréz Iacovino, August 8, 2023 

Artnet, What I Buy and Why: Qatari Collector and Curator Mohammed Al Thani Scours the Globe for Works That Leave Him Breathless, Lee Carter, May 22, 2023

Artnet, What I Buy and Why: Architect Lee Mindel Designs Light-Filled Modern Residences Perfect for Showcasing Art Collections, Including His Own, Lee Carter, April 3, 2023

The Art Newspaper, A paragon of Desert Modern architecture becomes an art gallery, Scarlet Cheng, March 22, 2023 

Cultured, Gerard Mossé’s Manhattan Miracle, Sophie Lee, March 10, 2023

Salon Privé Magazine, Desert X At Christie’s, CHRISTIES, February 28, 2023

Studio International, In Search of the Miraculous, Lilly Wei, February 24, 2023

Brooklyn Rail, In Search of the Miraculous, Barbara A. MacAdam, February, 2023

Women’s Wear Daily, Desert X Art on View at Christie’s in Beverly Hills, Ryma Chikhoune, February 18, 2023

 

2022

FROM SPARK TO SPIRIT, NOOR RIYADH, Neville Wakefield and Gaida Almogren, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Galerie, The Noor Riyadh Art Festival Illuminates Saudi Arabia’s Capital City, Paul Laster, November 11, 2022

The National, Arts & Culture, Noor Riyadh’s From Spark to Spirit exhibition pays homage to the many facets of light, Razmig Bedirian, November 9, 2022

White Hot Magazine, Gisela Colón: The Feminist Divine at SCAD Museum of Art, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, October 2022 

WE ARE LA: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE FREDERICK R. WEISMAN ART FOUNDATION, Billie Milam Weisman, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, California, 2022

ART ESCAPES: HIDDEN ART EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM, Grace Banks, Gestalten, Germany, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-96704-052-4

Nashville Scene, Light and Space, “Finish Fetish” and the Endless Summer of the Frist’s LACMA Exhibition, Laura Hutson Hunter, July 20, 2022

2021

LIGHT, SPACE, SURFACE: ART FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Edited with text by Carol S. Eliel. Text by Kim Conaty, Michael Govan, Lawrence Weschler, Melinda Wortz, Katia Zavistovski, Delmonico Books, 2021, ISBN: 9781942884996

L’ABSTRACTION, Arnauld Pierre and Pascal Rousseau, Citadelles & Mazenod, Paris, France, 2021, ISBN : 978-2-85088-857-1, p.360

The Art Newspaper, Contemporary Art Meets Ancient Egypt: New Sculptures at the Pyramids of Giza, Amy Dawson, October 2021

The Art Newspaper, Supersize my sculpture: Frieze reflects the trend to think big, Anny Shaw, October 2021

Cultured, Artist Gisela Colón Goes to Earth and Beyond, Beatriz Colón, November 10, 2021

Artnet News, We Changed Peoples Mentality: What It Was Like on the Ground in Egypt as Officials Unveiled the Pyramids' First Ever Contemporary Art Show, Barbara Pollack, October 2021

Evening Standard, Frieze Sculpture at Regent's Park Review: a delightful meeting of park and art, October 2021

Artnet News, In Pictures: See the Joyful Works Included in Frieze Sculpture 2021: From a Pearlescent Monolith to a Quirky Pineapple, Naomi Rea, October 31, 2021

The New York Times, Confessions of a Curator: I Can't Live Without Sculpture, October 2021

The Art Newspaper, JR Blows the Top off Egypt's Great Pyramid: First Look at Cairo Show of Contemporary Sculpture, October 2021

Art Now LA, The DaVinci Questionnaire, Gisela Colón: Conjuring the Ancient Divine Feminine and the Sci-Fi Future, Victoria Looseleaf, October 2021

The Washington Post, In the Galleries: Depicting an Energy of Constant Fluctuation and Growth, Mark Jenkins, June 18, 2021

 

2020

A VERY ANXIOUS FEELING: VOICES OF UNREST IN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke Virginia, 2020, Texts by curator Amethyst Rey Beaver, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, and various artists including Gisela Colón, ISBN : 978-1-7342201-1-7

Autre Magazine, Existential Time: An Interview of Gisela Colón, Summer Bowie, December 11, 2020

WWD, LA Artist Gisela Colón on Organic Minimalism, Her New Solo Show and Dior Collaboration, December 3, 2020.

New York Times, Galleries Like Their Buyers, Make Themselves at Home in Palm Beach, December 1, 2020

OCULA, Alien Scenes in South Florida During Miami Art Week, Sam Gaskin, December 2, 2020

Artforum, Diary, X-Files, Rahel Aima, February 28, 2020

New York Times, Art Rises in the Saudi Desert, Shadowed by Politics, Vivian Yee, February 11, 2020

Artnet News, In LA for Frieze Week? Here is Our Guide to 32 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs, Sarah Cascone, February 10, 2020

Forbes, Desert X AlUla, The Art Event Enticing Travelers To The Desert Of Saudi Arabia, Lauren Jade Hill, January 31, 2020

The Art Newspaper, "Trampolining in a Saudi Arabian Valley? First Look at the interactive art biennial Desert X AlUla," Gareth Harris, 29 January 2020

The Times, Desert X AlUla in pictures-- art flowers in the desert, Melissa Gronlund, February 2020

AD Architectural Digest Middle East, In Pictures: The Sculptures of Desert X AlUla, 02 February 2020

Evening Standard, From California to Saudi Arabia: Desert X Lands in AlUla, Stephanie D'Arc Taylor, 10 February 2020

Financial Times, Desert X Feels the Heat in Saudi Arabia, 6 February 2020

Galerie, Contemporary Art Transforms an Ancient Archeological Site in Saudi Arabia, Lucy Rees, 31 January 2020

Artnet News, "We Had the Guts to Say Yes to This: Artists Explain Why They Ignored Widespread Censure to Participate in Desert X's Saudi Edition, Rebecca Anne Proctor, 6 February 2020

Hypebeast, Desert X AlUla: Striking Art Installations Across the Saudi Arabian Valley, Gabrielle Leung, 5 February 2020

Dezeen, Desert X installs 14 Site-Specific Works in Saudi Arabia Desert, Natasha Hitti, 5 February 2020

Independent, Shifting Sands: An art exhibition, a desert landscape, and an insight into Saudi Society, Stephanie D'Arc Taylor, 5 February 2020

Forbes, "Desert X AlUla, The Art Event Enticing Travelers To The Desert Of Saudi Arabia," Lauren Jade Hill, January 31, 2020

Artforum, “Desert X Releases Artist List for Controversial Exhibition In Saudi Arabia,”

January 17, 2020

Desert X ALULA 2020, Texts by Nora Aldabal, Anna Somers Cock, Aya Alireza, Raneem Farsi, and Neville Wakefield, published on the occasion of the Biennial exhibition in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, January 2020

 

2019

Lauren Haynes and Joachim Pissarro, "Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 2019, ISBN: 978-I-68226-III-8

Phyllis Tuchman, "Gisela Colon: The Future is Now," published on the occasion of the exhibition "Brave New Worlds: Explorations of Space," Palm Springs Art Museum, 2019, ISBN-13: 978-0-9862453-5-0

Maxwell Williams, "Mega collectors raise $2.3m at Aspen Art Museum's annual ArtCrush benefit, The Art Newspaper, 6 August 2019.

The Desert Sun, "Palm Springs Art Museum exhibition pushes viewers to new vantage points," July 31, 2019

2018

Artnet News, “Can Palm Beach’s Progressive Art World Rebrand Itself as a Creative Destination, Too?” Sarah Cascone, December 3, 2018

Hollywood Reporter, “Palm Beach’s New Wave Art Wknd Bows in Trump Territory With Focus on Inclusion,” Rebecca Kleinman, December 4, 2018

W Magazine, Culture, “The Art World Arrives in Palm Beach as Mar-a-Lago’s Noisy Neighbors,” Fan Zhong, December 4, 2018

Knight, Christopher, "Gisela Colon's Monolithic Mysteries and Playful Wall 'Pods'," Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2018

Miller, James H., "Private View: our Picks of February Gallery Shows," The Art Newspaper, February 2018

Horst, Aaron "Gisela Colon at Diane Rosenstein," Contemporary Art Review LA, February 2018

Frieze Magazine, "Highlights From Zona Maco," Instagram February 2018

Frank, Peter, "Gisela Colon," Artillery Magazine, February 13, 2018

Walters, Sydney, "Experiencing Light, Gisela Colon's New Work at Diane Rosenstein Gallery," Art and Cake, February 2018

Pasha, Natalie, "Gisela Colon: New Sculpture," Art Now LA, February 2018

Hirschowitz, Gabe, "6 Not-To-Be-Missed Art Happenings Los Angeles," LA Confidential, February 20, 2018

 

2017

Vogel, Wendy, "W.I.T.C.H. Way: Seattle Art Fair," ARTFORUM, Diary, August 22, 2017

Pasori, Cedar, "10 Picks from Seattle Art Fair 2017," Interview Magazine, August 2, 2017

T.S. Flock, "5 Fantastic Left Coast Galleries at Seattle Art Fair," Vanguard, July 31, 2017

Glentzer, Molly, "Art Daybook: The Calming Powers of Alien Pods," Houston Chronicle, May 30, 2017

Hendley-Lopez, Meghan, "Visual Vernacular: Gisela Colon," Free Press Houston, May 22, 2017

Tennant, Donna, "Gisela Colon at McClain Gallery," Editor's Picks, Visual Art Source, May 2017

Anspon, Catherine D., "Gisela Colon: Blast Off," Papercity Magazine, Houston, Texas, May 2017

Zellen, Jody, "Gisela Colon: "Hyper-Minimal" at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, February 23, 2017

Robinson, Leanna, "Diane Rosenstein: Gisela Colon," Artillery Magazine, February 15, 2017

Barrie, Lita, "Gisela Colon Interview: Kinesthetic Minimalist Sculpture @ Diane Rosenstein Gallery," 

Huffington Post, February 6, 2017

Philp, Hunter Drohojowska, "Gisela Colon at Diane Rosenstein," KCRW Art Talk, January 12, 2017

Wagley, Catherine, "Deceptive Perfection," LA Weekly, January 18, 2017 

 

2016

Hudson, Suzanne (March 2016). "Atmospheric Abstraction." ARTFORUM 54 (7): 281–282

Moyer, Nancy, "Artist provides geometric experience in IMAS exhibit," The Monitor, April 25, 2016

Tennant, Donna, "Radiant Space," Editor's Picks, Visual Art Source, June 2016

Gemmell, Grace-Yvette, "Radiant Space Illuminates Houston with Flashes of the West Coast's Light and Space Movement," ARTSY Editorial, June 13, 2016

Anspon, Catherine D., "Space Race," Papercity Magazine, Houston, Texas, July 2016

Dansby, Daneva H. (November 2016),"Gisela Colon: Light Effects," Sculpture 35 (9): 36-39  

2015

Gleason, Mat, "Gisela Colon at Ace Gallery: Light & Space Art Gains Content," Huffington Post, January 30, 2015

Biller, Steven, "Gisela Colon; Pods at Ace Gallery," Art Ltd., May/June 2015, p.25

Philp, Hunter Drohojowska (April 2015), Gisela Colon (1st ed.) Los Angeles: Ace Gallery. ISBN 978-0-692-41011-0

Bloom, Rebecca, "The Most Powerful Women in LA's Art Scene," LA Confidential, June 26, 2015

Straus, Michael, "Ron Cooper," The Brooklyn Rail, March 5, 2015 

 

2014

New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Issue, No. 109

Artillery, Colorimetry at MOAH, March 4, 2014

Droste Effect, Colorimetry Uses Color as Instigator, February 25, 2014

ArtSpace, Could Silicon Valley Be the Next Art Basel? April 12, 2014

SquareCylinder.com, Virtual and Real Shake Hands @ Silicon Valley Contemporary, April 11, 2014

 

2013

ArtScene, December 2013, Continuing and Recommended Exhibitions, Glo-Pods at Quint Gallery

2010

“Gisela Colon: Order and Spirit," San Diego News, Peter Frank, January 4, 2010

 

2009

"Gisela Colón: Liquid Gold: The Latest Pour," Anna Meliksetian, THE Magazine, August 2009

 

2008

El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico, "Luz Líquida en Petrus" September 3, 2008

El Nuevo Día, San Juan, Puerto Rico, “Geometría Abstracta Desde L.A.”, June 26, 2008

 

COLLECTIONS

 

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York

Crocker At Museum, Sacramento, California

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri

El Museo Del Barrio, New York, New York

Instituto de Cultura de Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California

Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California

Museu Nacional da República, Brasilia, Brazil

Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California

Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida

Peyrassol Sculpture Park, Flassans-sur-Issole, Provence, France

SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

The Fredrick R. Weisman Foundation

The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection

Michael Straus Foundation

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