Connie Lloveras CV
Education:
Florida International University, B.F.A. 1981
Miami-Dade Community College, A.A. 1979
Collections:
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York
Martín H. Levin Advocacy Center University of Florida, Gainseville, Florida
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Velez, Malaga;
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama;
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida;
Museum of Art, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida;
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida;
Centro de Arte Fundacion Ortiz-Gurdian, Leon, Nicaragua;
Cuban Museum, Miami, Florida;
Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington;
Palm Beach County Council of the Arts, Palm Beach, Florida;
Art in State Buildings Program, State of Fla., Div. of Cultural Affairs;
General Services Administration, Dallas, Texas;
Metro-Dade Transit, Metro-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, Florida;
Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Georgia;
Emergency Operations Center, Tallahassee, Florida;
Fort Pierce Regional Service Center, Fort Pierce, Florida;
78th Street Community Library, Tampa, Florida;
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
AT & T Collection, Piscataway, New Jersey;
Allapatah Middle School, Metro-Dade Art in Public Places, Miami, Florida;
Florida International University, Miami, Florida;
Confort, Barcelona, Spain;
Miguel Gaspar, Salon Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain;
Southern Bell Tower Collection, Jacksonville, Florida;
and numerous private collections.
Solo Exhibition:
Oct/19- "Messenger Pigeons, 2019" The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida
Oct/18- “Connie Lloveras and Curtis Cutshaw,” TEW Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia.
Oct/18- “Connie Lloveras: Saints and Pigeons,” Crisolart Galleries, Barcelona, Spain.
Feb/17- “Connie Lloveras: Messenger Pigeons and Circles,” The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida
Mar/15- “Connie Lloveras: Messenger Pigeons and Forms,” Galeria Arteconsult. Panama City, Panama.
Feb/14- “Connie Lloveras: Messenger Pigeons”, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Dec/12- “Connie Lloveras: Random Forms”, Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama.
Nov/11- “Connie Lloveras: Letters and Forms”, The Americas Collectiom, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jul/09- “Connie Lloveras: Scattered Pieces”, Gruen Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Apr/08- “Connie Lloveras: Construction , Canvas, and Paper Works”, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jan/08- “Connie Lloveras: Wood and Clay Constructions”. Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama.
Nov/06- “Spiritual Landscapes”, Gruen Galleries, Chicago, Illinois.
Jan/06- “Ordinary Moments”, Art @ Work, Miami, Florida.
Oct/05-“Ordinary Moments in Ordinary Time”, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Sep/05- “Connie Lloveras: Recent Work”, Galeria Arte Consult, Panama City, Panama.
Jun/04- “Connie Lloveras”, Gruen Gallery. Chicago, Illinois.
Oct/03- “Bread, Houses, and Intuition”, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Aug/02- “Connie Lloveras: Unspoken Words, A Retrospective 1990 to 2000”, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panama City, Panama.
Oct/0l- “Connie Lloveras: Light Seeds,” Collins Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
May/01- “Connie Lloveras: Dream Sorting,” The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Dec/00- "Connie Lloveras: Interior Gardens," David Rockafeller Center For Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Oct/00- "Connie Lloveras: Watering the Abyss," Collins Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Mar/00- "Connie Lloveras: In Flight," Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama.
Oct/99- "Connie Lloveras: Fertile Soil," Galeria Amalia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois.
Oct/98- "Connie Lloveras: Utterance,"The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Mar/98- "Connie Lloveras: Unspoken Words," Galeria Amelia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois.
Sept/97- "Connie Lloveras: New Work," Galeria Arteconsult, Panama, Panama.
Oct/96- "Connie Lloveras: Recent Work," Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Feb/96- "Connie Lloveras: Wall Works," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jun/95- "Connie Lloveras: Sculptures, Paintings, and Paper," Wheeler Gallery, Art Institute, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Oct/94 - "Connie Lloveras: Internal Balance," Forum of the Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sept/94- "Connie Lloveras: Paintings and Sculptures," The Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
Dec/93- "Connie Lloveras: Paintings and Sculptures," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Jun/92- "Connie Lloveras: Paintings and Ceramics," Galeria Matisse, Barcelona, Spain.
Oct/90- "Clay Works: Wall Installations and Sculptures by Connie Lloveras," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Jun/84 - "Connie Lloveras: Clay Forms," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Dec/19 "Art Basel Special Exhibitions", Manolis Projects, Miami, Florida
Aug/19 "Life and Work of an Idea: Miami's Art@Work and Farside Gallery in Buenos Aires" Periferia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sept/18 "Fall Exhibition 2018", The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida
April /18 "Selected Gallery Artists", The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida
April/18 "Curtis Cutshasw and Connie LLoveras" TEW Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
Feb/18 "Part IV-Miami Based Artists: Better Alive than Dead", Art at work, Miami, Florida
Oct/17 "Reflections of the Americas," Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum Miami FL
Dec/13 “Colectiva de Fin de Ano,” Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama.
Nov/13 “Group Exhition”, Aldo Castillo Projects, Estero, Florida
Jan/13- “New Art for the New Year”, curated by Denise M. Gersen, former Associate Director of the Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Museum, Coral Gables, FL.
Nov/11- “PINTA- New York”, New York, New York.
Jan/11- “MIA 2011”, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Mar/10- “Arteamericas,” Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Nov/09- “Uniendo America”, Galeriia Codice, Managua, Nicaragua.
Mar/09- “Arteamericas-”, Miami Beach ConmventionCenter, Miami Beach, Florida
Jul/08- “The Beauty of Paper”, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Sept/08- “Oeuvres Selectionnees de la Gravure Contemoraine”, Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
May/07- “Spring into Summer”, N.A.W.A. Gallery, New York, New York.
Sept/07- “Café VII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists”, Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Gallery, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Glendale, Arizona.
Sept/07- “Imprinted Bodies,” traveling exhibition, Morlan Gallery at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
Mar/07- “Laudible Latins,” Ormond Memorial Museum and Sculpture Garden, Ormond Beach, Florida.
Mar/05- “Centenario de Maria Zambrano” Museo de America de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Apr/04- “Arte Americas,” Coconut Grove Convention Center, Coconut Grove, Florida.
Nov/03- “Florida Visual Arts Fellowship Award Recipients Exhibition,” Polk Art
Sept/04- Museum, Lakeland, Florida. Traveling exhibit throughout museums in Florida. Okaloosa-Walton Fine Arts Galleries, Niceville, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
May/03- “Diaspora: Contemporary Art in Exile,” (three person show), Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado.
Jan/03- “Artwork by Hispanic Artists,” Aventura Governmental Center, Aventura, Florida.
Sept/02- “38 Cuban Artists,” Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
Aug/02- “Gallery Artists,” Gruen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Apr/02- “Intuition,” (three-woman show), The Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida.
Nov/01- “Intuition,” (three-woman show), The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Oct/0l- "The Spirit of the Americas,” The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
May/0l- “Tampa Public Art: A Selection of Recent Projects,” The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
Jan/01-“Winter Show,” Collins Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois.
Mar/99- "Colectiva," Nuevo Espacio Editart, Geneva, Switzerland.
Apr/99- "Collective Exhibit," Galeria Amalia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois.
Nov/98- "Loins de Cuba,"Musee des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Oct/98- "Approaching the Millenium," Galeria Amalia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois.
Aug/98- "Director's Choice," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
April/97- "Primicias," Arteconsult, Panama, Panama.
Oct/97- "Breaking Barriers", Museum of Art, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Traveling exhibit throughout museums in the United States. Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Southbend, Indiana.
Sept/97- "Artistic Odyssey: Cuba/U.S.A.," Galeria Amalia Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois.
Sept/97- "Only Here/Solo Aqui,” CubanMuseum, Miami, Florida.
Aug/97- "The Best of the Americas," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Oct/96- "Images of Latin American Artists,” Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
Jun/96- "Expressions of an Island: Four Artists from Cuba,” The Americas Collection, and Coral Gables, Florida.
Jan/96- "Art Miami," Miami Beach, Florida.
Oct/95- "Artists Sketchbooks," Ground Level Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Aug/95- “Becalmed in Miami," Main Dade Library, Miami, Fla.
May/95- "The New Collection,” The Cuban Museum, Miami, Fla.
Apr/94- "The Best of the Americas," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida.
Dec/94 - "Petit Format," The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Fla.
Oct/93 - "Cuban Artists of the 20th Century," Museum of Art, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Jun/93 - "Two Decades of Public Art: 1973 to 1993," Main Library, Metro Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
Oct/92- "Miami/Clay/5," Main Library, Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
Jan/92- "Of Houses and Quilts," South Dade Regional Library, Miami, Florida.
Sept/92- "Aqui: Arte Hispano en Orlando," City Hall, Orlando, Fla.
July/92- "Director's Choice," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Fla.
Oct/89- "Premiere Opening-Gallery Artists," Gillman/Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida.
Sept/88- "Ceramics: Rhoda Hepner, Peter Kuentzel, ConnieLloveras”, Cultural Resource Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Oct/88- "Eight from Outside Cuba," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Mar/88- "Latin American Artists of the Southeast Coastal Region,” Traveling Exhibit throughout museums in the United States, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Louisiana; Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
Nov/87- "Diversity in Contemporary Ceramics," Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Nov/87 - "Three Women Explore the Eighties," The Continuum Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
May/87 - "Women Explore the Eighties," The Continuum Art Center, Juror- Frankel, Director, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
Mar/87 (through 1989) - "Outside Cuba/Fuera de Cuba," 2 year Traveling exhibit throughout museums in the United States, Jane Voorhees Zimmerman Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, N. Y.; Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
Nov/86 - "Premiere Opening, Gallery Artist," Gillman/Stein Gallery, Tampa, Florida
Oct/86 - "Hot off the Press," Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Jan/86 - "Le Petit Format," Sibi Art Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Nov/85- "American Artist of Cuban Origin," Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery, Florida.
Oct/85 - "WOMART," Sibi Art Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Jul/85 - "Trends," Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, New York.
Oct/84 - "Visions of Ourselves: Women Artists' Heritage and Future,” West Campus Gallery Learning Resources Center, Valencia Community College Center, Valencia Community College, Juror- Sandra Langer, Orlando, Florida.
Sept/83 - "Miami Works on Paper," Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, Florida.
Art in Public Places Projects:
“Barcas” and “Boat and Two Rectangles”, 48” x 96” and 48” x 48”, painted wood and clay constructions, awarded by Florida Art in State Buildings Program, to be installed at Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center at University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in July 2009.
“Schoolhouse,” 8’ x 10’ x 13’ aluminum and cast concrete installation for Florida Memorial College, Miami, Florida, awarded by Florida Art in State Buildings Program, Completed in July 2005.
“Circle,” 31’ x 28’ exterior handmade tile mural for North Shore Park Youth Center, Miami Beach, Florida, awarded by City of Miami Beach Art in Public Places Committee, completed in November 2003.
"Threshold," 8 1/2' x 12' painted clay permanent installation for entrance lobby, A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, Dallas, Texas, awarded by General Services Administration, Washington, D. C., completed in August 2000.
"Ybor City Streetscape Project", collaborative project that includes 9 blocks of pedestrian walkways that contain 8' x 4' granite tobacco leaf silhouettes engraved with partial historical phrases pertaining to the surrounding area, completed in September 2000.
"Knowledge Path," 200' x 4' soffit area in main library area that includes an installation of and painted clay and collected books, 78th street Community Library, Tampa, Florida, awarded by Hillsborough County Public Art Committee. Completed in October l997.
"Miami's Pot," 50' x 5' bridge with 20' x 8' cast concrete form with relief tile sections over Florida Avenue at the Mayfair in Coconut Grove, Florida. Completed in May 1997.
"Conference Table," 30" x 90" painted clay installation for the Emergency Operations Center, Tallahassee, Florida. Awarded by Art in State Buildings, Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. Completed in July l996.
"Tree- Mother,"18' painted concrete sculpture to be installed at Atlanta University Center. Awarded by Corporation of Olympic Development in Atlanta and Atlanta University Center, Inc. Completed in June, l996.
"Memory Plaza," public art work for Little Havana Health Clinic. Awarded by Art in State Buildings Program, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. Completed in August l995.
"Journey," 9' x 20' painted clay mural installation for Fort Pierce Regional Service Center, Fort Pierce, Florida. Awarded by Art in State Buildings, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs. Completed in December l994.
"Reaching for Miami Skies," painted clay installation for 32' x 92' curved concrete canopy ceiling for Brickell Metromover Station, Miami, Florida, Awarded by Metro-Dade Art in Public Places. Completed in March l994.
"Journey to Lanzarotte," painted clay installation for NationsBank Building, Charlotte, North Carolina. Installed in September l992.
"Many Moons, Many Moons," painted clay installation for Palm Beach International Airport, Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach Council of the Arts. Installed in May l992.
"Sky through my Moons," clay tile installation for Glenwood Elementary School, Olympia, Washington, Washington State Council of the Arts. Installed in June l992.
"Minor Help," 6' x 12' clay tile installation for AT&T, Piscataway, New Jersey. Installed in December l992.
"Houses Within Houses," 20' x 90' clay tile and colored concrete installation on front exterior facade of Allapatah Middle School for Metro-Dade Art in Public Places and Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida. Completed in August l992.
"Birth of the Intellect," "Infinite Wisdom" and "Broadening of the Mind," wall installations for student lounges at Florida International University, Tamiami Campus, Miami, Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida. Completed in August l991.
Honors and Awards:
Miami Dade College 2009 Hall of Fame Award
State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Oct/02, from Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs.
Artist in Residency Grant, Jun/92, from the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs in Florida. In conjunction with Metro-Dade Art in Public Places, the grant enabled the artist to leave a large scale permanent artwork at Allapatah Middle School.
Equal Merit Award, "Juried Exhibition," Aug/87, Awarded by William D. Paul, Professor of Art at the University of Athens, former director of the Georgia Museum of Art, For Lauderdale Florida.
Best Sculptor Award, "Women Explore the Eighties," May/87, Awarded show in November 1987 by Robert Frankel, Director of Metro-Dade's Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida.
Merit Award "1981 Annual Juried Exhibition," Awarded by Dr. william Betsch, Chairperson of Art Department, University of Miami.