Juan Uslé

JUAN USLÉ (Santander, 1954).
Triptych, 1989.
Watercolor on paper with Eagle -A/Quality bond/USA. Adhered to cardboard.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 15 x 22 cm (x3); 44 x 22 cm (together); 70 x 49 cm (cardboard).
An artist based between New York and Saro (Cantabria), collaborator of the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery in Madrid since 1993, Juan Uslé studied Fine Arts at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts (Valencia, 1973-77), later extending his studies with the Scholarship for Young Artists (1980) and the one dedicated to the Research of New Expressive Forms (1982), both from the Ministry of Culture. In 1984 he participated for the first time in the Arco fair, and two years later he moved to New York with his partner, the artist Victoria Civera. In 1992 he took part in the Documenta in Kassel, and in 1996 the IVAM dedicated his first retrospective exhibition to him, a recognition that was followed in 2002 by the National Prize for Plastic Arts. Throughout his career, Uslé has held exhibitions in prominent museums and galleries such as the MACBA, the Saatchi in London, the Serralves Museum, the Es Baluard in Palma, the Ludwig in Vienna or the New MoMA in New York, although it is worth mentioning for its importance his anthology "Open Rooms", presented in 2003 at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid, the Marcelino Botín Foundation in Santander, the S.M.A.K. Museum in Ghent and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Juan Uslé is currently represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Es Baluard in Palma, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Saatchi Collection, the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Marugame Hirai Museum in Japan and the Tate Modern in London, among other collections.