eugenia vargas pereira

E-mail: Solo Exhibitions 2002 Eugenia Vargas: The Longest Day of the Year, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000 Thought for a River, Performance piece at Hardau River, IFU, Suderburg, Germany
1999 The Abject Body, A site-specific installation, Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
1998 Cuerpos Alterados, Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima, Galería Martín Fierro, Lima, Perú
1996 Poder de Actos de Dominio Irrevocable, Milagros Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1994 Eugenia Vargas: Large Format, Imkabinett, Berlin, Germany
1993 Eugenia Vargas, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Eugenia Vargas, Imkabinett, Berlin, Germany
1991 Aguas, a site-specific installation, University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
1990 Eugenia Vargas: Gran Formato, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
1989 Pequeño Formato, Galería Khalo Coronel, México, D.F.
1985 Re-tratos, Museo de Arte e Historia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
Flora,The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahasse, Florida
2001
Globe>Miami>Island, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Fl. MoCa, D.C.
Travels In Hyperreality, Making Art in Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Personal Permanent Records, Blue Star Gallery, San Antonio, Texas (traveling exhibition)
Levity & Gravity, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Home Invasion, A collective Studio Exhibition, Miami, Florida
Mount Miami, Video and Site-Specific Installation, Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel
Departing Perspectives, Site-Specific Installation, Espiritu Santo Plaza, Miami, Florida
1999
The Home Show, A Collective Studio Exhibition, Miami, Florida
The Present Absent, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and MIA Gallery, Miami International Airport, Florida (traveling exhibition)
1998
Multinationals, Boulder Museum of Contemporary, Boulder, Colorado
Desde el Cuerpo: A Survey of Women Artists in Contemporary Art, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
Así Está la Cosa: Installation Art in Latin America, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
Hacer Memoria Registros de la Nueva Fotografía Latinoamericana, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1996
Figuratively Speaking, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Metáforas, Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México
1995
Traces: The Body in Contemporary Photography, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Danger Zone, Performance piece, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Point Counter Point: Re-imagining The Avant Garde Modernism in the Art of Latin America, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1994
Bird's Eye View, Site-specific installation in InSite 94, San Diego, California
Contemporary Mexican Photography, The Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Concierto para una Reconstrucción, Performance Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, México, D.F.
Best of the Fith Havana Bienale, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
1993
News from Post America, Aperto X, The Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy
La Frontera / The Border, Site-Specific Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural la Raza, San Diego, California
1992
The Landscape From Now On, Site-Specific Installation, Photography Bienale, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Escenarios Rituales: Fotonoviembre, Casa de la Cultura de Tenerife, Canary Islands (traveling exhibition)
A Shadow Born of Earth: Contemporary Latin American Photography, The Americas Society, New York (traveling exhibition)
The Bleeding Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (traveling exhibition)
1990
Material as Message, Performance Piece, Glasells School of Art, Houston, Texas
Women Photograph Women, University of California, Riverside, California
The River Pierce, Performance Piece, a collaborative project with Michael Tracy at the Rio Grande, San Ygnacio, Texas
Through the Path of Echoes, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas (traveling exhibition organized by I.C.I., New York)
The Face of The Pyramid, The Other Gallery, New York, New York
1989
150 Years of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Contemporary Latin American Photography, The Toronto Photographer's Workshop, Toronto, Canada
1988
The Marginal Body, The Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Permanent Collections
University Art Museum, University of California, Long Beach
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
Centro de la Imagen, México, D.F
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Selected Bibliography
  • Carol Damian, Eugenia Vargas, Art Nexus, May/July 1999, pp.132-133
  • Gean Moreno, Eugenia Vargas, Art Nexus, May/June 1999, p.39
  • Tami Katz-Freiman, The Abject Body (catalogue), January, 1999, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Fl
  • Francine Prose (introduction), "Master Breasts," Aperture, Aperture Foundation, September 1998, p.44
  • Kurt Hollander, Así Está la Cosa, (catalogue), Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, México D.F., 1997, pp.14;85
  • Shifra Goldman, "Performances in Danger Zone," Art Nexus, July-September 1996, pp.54-56
  • Ema Cecilia García de Krinsky, Metáforas (catalogue), Museo de Monterrey, México, 1996, p.24
  • Elizabeth Ferrer, "Eugenia Vargas," Art Nexus, July-September 1995, pp.88-92
  • Raphael Rubeinstein, "Report from Mexico," Art in America, May 1994, p.36
  • Mary Schneider Enríquez, "Myth, Magic, Grunge and Glamour," Art News, April 1994, pp.134-136
  • Eduardo Acosta, "Eugenia Vargas," Flash Art, April 1994, p.108
  • Cuauhtémoc Medina, "A Line is a Central Point with Two SidesS" (catalogue), Insite94, pp.56;109
  • Ken Johnson, "Hearts In Mind," Art in America, March 1992 pp.45-47
  • David Huerta, "Los Torbellinos del Cuerpo," Luna Cornea, No. 4, 1994, p.22
  • Christopher Kuhl, "Eugenia Vargas," Art Papers,July-August 1994, Vol. 8, p.4
  • Madelein Grynztein, The Border (catalogue), Museum of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural La Raza, San Diego, 1993, pp.48-49
  • Catherine Drillis, "Eugenia Vargas," Art News, December 1993, p.135
  • Osvaldo Sánchez, "The Body as Memory," Third Text, Spring, 1993, pp.43-45
  • Artist's Statement, News from Post America (catalogue), Aperto X, 1993, pp.440-441
  • M.A.Greenstein, "Eugenia Vargas," High Performance, No. 58, Spring, 1992
  • Jody Zellen, "Eugenia Vargas," Arts Magazine, February 1992, p.73
  • Roberto Tejada, "Eugenia Vargas: Recent Work," Fotografía e Instalación, (Catalogue), Julio 1992, pp.8
  • Elizabeth Ferrer, "Eugenia Vargas: Embodying Earth," New Observation, January 1991, pp.28-31
  • Susan Rubin Suleiman, "Alternatives to Beauty in Contemporary Art," Being Contemporary, Harvard University Press, 1991
  • Elizabeth Ferrer, Through Path of Echoes (catalogue) Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI), New York, 1990, p.44
  • Monica Amor, "Eugenia Vargas," Arte Internacional, No.18, Museo de Arte de Bogotá, p.135