Miguel Condé

Miguel Condé (born 1939) is a Mexican figurative painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Biography

Condé was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a Mexican father and an American mother. He split his time between Mexico and the United States until 1948 when he moved to New York with his mother. In 1956 he rented a studio in New York and began to study anatomy with Stephen Rogers Peck. In 1959 he moved to Mexico and a year later married Carola Schisel. In 1963 he was awarded a scholarship by the French government (Bourse d’Etudes Libres) so he moved to Paris where he studied with Stanley William Hayter in his Atelier 17.^[1] While in Paris his son Amadeo was born. In 1969 he returned to the United States and was an instructor of drawing and mixed media in the graduate program at the University of Iowa School of Art, Iowa City, Iowa. While living there, his daughter Caëtana María del Pilar was born. In 1969 he traveled to France and then moved with his family to Sitges, Catalonia, Spain.

In 1971 he met Juana Mordó, who offered him his first exhibition in Spain, which occurred in 1974. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he received many honors and awards and continued to exhibit his work around the world.^[2] In 1993 he met Dan Benveniste who would become his printer and collaborator.

Condé now lives and works between Madrid and Sitges in Spain.

Awards and professional honors

• Recipient of a Guggenheim Latin American Fellowship [3], 1974
• First prize for printmaking, Landesbank, Stuttgart, 1981
• First prize “I/89 Euroamericana del Grabado”, Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo of A Coruña, Spain, 1989
• Named lifetime member of the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français, 1991
• Invited artist, “II Bienal Internacional de Gravado” of the Caixa de Ourense in Ourense, Spain, 1992
• Invited by the City of Madrid to design the poster for the San Isidro festivities, 2000
• MacDowell Colony Fellow [4]
• Premio Penagos de Dibujo [5]

Collections

His work is represented in numerous museums and collections:

• Museum of Modern Art in New York
• Brooklyn Museum in New York
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Blanton Museum of Art in Austin
• University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid
• Albertina in Vienna
• Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris

Selected works

• Untitled (1971), Museum of Modern Art, New York.[6]
• Plomo (1977), Brooklyn Museum.[7]
• Messerschmitt (1973), Cleveland Museum of Art.[8]
• Untitled (1972-1973), University of Iowa Museum of Art.[9]
• Sin título, Colección MAPFRE, Madrid.[10]
• Catálogo Ibercaja [11]
• Untitled (drinkers) (1993), University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA).[12]

External links

• Miguel Condé official website
• Condé Miguel - Artista - Colecciones Artísticas FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE
• Documentarte: Condé. Pinturas, gouaches, dibujos y grabados (1973-1985)
• Radio France Internationale - Miguel Condé, gentleman del grabado
• Periódico Excélsior - Miguel Condé, inspiración mediterránea
• "Condé, o los filos del encuentro", article by José Antonio Millán
• Video excerpt taken from the DVD “Artistes de Sitges”
• Artists of/de Atelier 17, 1950-1976
• Galería Pedro Torres - Miguel Condé
• Galleria del Leone - Miguel Condé
• Warnock Fine Arts - Miguel Condé
• Galerie Michele Broutta - Dessins de Miguel Condé
• Galerie Michele Broutta - Gravures de Miguel Condé
• Société des Francs Bibliophiles - livre d’artiste Miguel Condé
• Miguel Condé at PicassoMio.com

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]

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