Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera currently lives and works in Berlin and New York. He received his BFA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1982 and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992. Since then, Herrera’s work has been shown in numerous museum exhibitions around the world. Individual exhibitions of his work include Arturo Herrera: Castles, Dwarfs, and Happychaps (2007) at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Arturo Herrera (2005) at the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and Arturo Herrera (1998) at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. Herrera’s work has been shown in many group exhibitions, as well, such as Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making (2007) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Extreme Abstraction (2005) at the Albright-knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (2003) at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; the 2002 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and Painting at the Edge of the World (2001) at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Among Herrera’s awards are a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 2005 and a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship in 2003. Night Before Last/Chicago is Herrera’s first permanent public artwork in the United States.