• Confesiones II

    “Confesiones II”

    Date 1996
    Dimensions 42 ½” x 42 5/8” x 4 ½”
    Category Painting
    Medium Acrylic, intervened book, nails and wood on canvas
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
    Collection Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
    Acknowledgement Donation of John Belk and Margarita Serampión
  • Música de cámara

    “Música de cámara”

    Date 2020
    Dimensions 28" x 22"
    Category Photography
    Medium Digital print on paper
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Dodecafonía eterna

    “Dodecafonía eterna”

    Date 2020
    Dimensions 28" x 20"
    Category Photography
    Medium Digital print on paper
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • El corazón sonríe

    “El corazón sonríe”

    Date 2019
    Dimensions 18" x 11"
    Category Drawing
    Medium Pencil, pastel and collage on paper
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Nocturno #3

    “Nocturno #3”

    Date 2018
    Dimensions 48" x 24"
    Category Painting
    Medium Acrylic, oil crayon and photographs on canvas
    Genre Abstract
    Period 21st Century
  • Drift Noir

    “Drift Noir”

    Date 2018
    Dimensions 22" x 28"
    Category Photography
    Medium Digital print on paper
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Rectángulos

    “Rectángulos”

    Date 2018
    Dimensions 22" x 28"
    Category Photography
    Medium Watercolor and acrylic on digital photography
    Genre Nude
    Period 21st Century
  • Electroacústica #7

    “Electroacústica #7”

    Date 2018
    Dimensions 23" x 14"
    Category Painting
    Medium Acrylic and oil crayon on digitally printed canvas
    Genre Abstract
    Period 21st Century
  • Portrait of Le Corbusier

    “Portrait of Le Corbusier ”

    Date 2003
    Dimensions 60"x 65"x 144"
    Category Installation
    Medium Wood and ink
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
    Collection Whitney Museum Collection, New York, United States
  • Hábitat en Tránsito

    “Hábitat en Tránsito*”

    Date 2002
    Dimensions 96"x 102"x 161"
    Category Installation
    Medium Wood, hammock, existing kiosk
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
    Collection * Title Translation: Habitat in Transit

Javier Cambre

San Juan, PR, 1966

Biography Details

Works with photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installations. He earned a Bachelor's Degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Environmental Architecture at the Architecture School of the University of Puerto Rico as well as an Architect Diploma from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, and a Master's Degree in Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was included in the Whitney Biennale (2002) in the United States and in various exhibitions in Europe and Latin America. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum in NYC. He is a tenured professor in the Art department of QCC- City University of New York, where he has taught since 2000. 

Artist Statement

My work explores the language and syntax of various artistic disciplines such as photography, painting, sculpture, architectural drawing and indeterminate musical notation, deconstructing their structural systems (spatial, temporal, graphic, musical and linguistic) and trying to create new visual and poetic possibilities. 

Javier Cambre, 2020

Formation

Education

1998

  • Master’s Degree of Art. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

1995

  • Architect’s Degree. Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

1993

  • Bachelor’s Degree of Environmental Design. Architecture School, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Professional Experience

2000- Present

  • Professor. Art Department, Queensborough Commynity College, City University of New York, New York, United States

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2005

  • Cerca a la Puerta del Sol, Galería Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2003

  • Contempt, Sixtyseven Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States

2002

  • Hábitat en Tránsito (In Situ), Piñones Beach, Piñones, Loiza, Puerto Rico

Group Shows

2016

  • metadATA (20 años de programación cultural, Alta Tencnología Andina), Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Miraflores, Lima, Perú

2015

  • From Remake to Restage, M100-Centro Cultural Matucana, Santiago de Chile
  • Faculty Exhibition, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York, Queens, New York, United States

2013

  • Muestra Nacional de Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2012

  • Lens of Twelve, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, England
  • Pasiones Contemporáneas: Colección Serapión & Belk, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

2011

  • FotoMAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 35 Años de Fotografía en Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Deconstrucciones: Convivencias y convergencias hacia una antropología urbana, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010

  • The Last Book, Zentral Bibliothek, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Sex Sells, Galería Obra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Cine de Barrio, Veladas de Santa Lucia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

2009

  • Muestra Nacional de Arte, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Facing Locality, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Frederiksted, St. Croix, American Virgin Islands
  • Tha Vault, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, New Jersey, United States

2008

  • Screening, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, United States
  • Videografías invisibles, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico

2007

  • Infinite Island, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • We Love Cinema, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York, United States

2006

  • Tiempo Irreal, Espacio Líquido, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
  • Tropicalisms, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, United States
  • Muestra Nacional de Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • War impressions, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  • Videografías (In)visibles, Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • F(R)icciones, Vol 2-3, Rewind… Video Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Vidéothèque, Art Basel 47, Basel, Switzerland
  • Faculty, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York, Queens, New York, United States

2005

  • Barrocos y Neo-barrocos, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
  • Videografías (In)visibles, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
  • Video Unplugged, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway
  • Video-Dumbo Festival, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • Cuerpos, Vol 1, Rewind… Video Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • None of the Above, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2004

  • Don’t Call it Performance, Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
  • Cambre & Dane, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • Papelería, Galería Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • None of the Above: Contemporary Puerto Rican Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
  • José Campeche, Javier Cambre, Chemi Rosado, Michael Linares, Galería Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2003

  • Breaking away, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States
  • Global Priority, The Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
  • Interplay 2, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Summer, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, United States

2002

  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
  • Interplay, Moore Space, Miami, Florida, United States
  • S-Files, Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
  • Four Square, Gallery Korea, New York, United States

2001

  • Weak Architecture, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
  • Tomorrow, Cuchifritos-Essex St. Market Gallery, New York, United States

2000

  • Transposed: Analogs of Built Space, The Sculpture Center, New York, United States
  • Utopistas, Galería de Arte, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Awards, Distinctions and Achievements

2015

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2013

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2011

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2010

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2008

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2007

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States
  • Award. New Jersey State Council for the Arts Award, New Jersey, United States

2006

  • Grant. PSC-CUNY Creative Research Grant, City University of New York, New York, United States

2005

  • Grant. Fund for the Arts, NALAC, San Antonio, Texas, United States

2004

  • Recidency. Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, United States

2003

  • Grant. New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, United States

2002-2003

  • Residency. PS1-Contemporary Art Center, New York, United States

Collections

  • Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States

Bibliography

Libros

Cambre, Xavier. “Black Box”. Hardcover, 96 pages, b&w and color images, text by Tristan Chevremont. ISBN: 9781367851856. Printed in the USA, 2016. Published by the artist

“Hycide”, edited by Akintola Hanif, Rutgers University Press,2014, p.90 

“Architectural Inventions” edited by Matt Bua and Maximillian Goldfarb, 2012. ISBN: 9781780670058 

“On Drawing (The Lines of Contemporary Art)”, edited by Tracey, I.B. Tauris, UK, 2008 

Catalogues

Cubiñá, Silvia. "Uncertain Terrain", Hábitat en Tránsito: Piñones, Piñones, Loíza, Puerto Rico, 2002.

Fuentes, Elvis. "Rewind-Rewind: Video Arte", Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Mosaka, Tumelo. “Infinite Island”, Brooklyn Museum, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 2007.

Rinder, Lawrence. “Javier Cambre", Whitney Biennial '02, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 2002.

Wein, Jo Ann. "Javier Cambre", Faculty, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York, Queens, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 2006.

“Muestra Nacional de Arte 2013”. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, San Juan, PR, 2013.

Trelles, Mercedes.  “35 Años de Fotografía en Puerto Rico”. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico,2011

Newspapers                     

Alegre Barrios, Mario. “Tránsito entre Piñones y NY". El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 26 de enero de 2002, pp. 72-73.

Cotter, Holland. "None of the above”. The New York Times (Nueva York, EU), 4 de junio de 2004, p. E.

Cotter, Holland. "Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent ". The New York Times (Nueva York, EU), 8 de marzo de 2002, p. E35.

Cotter, Holland. "The S-Files", The New York Times, (Nueva York, EU), 17 de junio de 2003, p. E48.

Gopnick, Blake. “Whitney Biennial: American as Jambalaya". The Washington Post (Washington DC, EU), 7 de marzo de 2002, p. C1.

Mártir, Wanda. “Huella Boricua en Art Basel”. El Nueva Día (San Juan, PR), 20 de junio de 2006, pp. 72-73.

Pérez Rivera, Tatiana. “Los Creadores Nuestros, Ahora”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de enero de 2005, p/ 5.

Stevens, Mark. "Irony Lives On". New York Magazine (Nueva York, EU), 18 de marzo de 2002.

Magazines

Fuentes, Elvis. “Javier Cambre”, Art Nexus (Miami, FL), Núm. 59, Vol. 4, 2005, pp. 177-178.

Giovannotti, Michaela. "The S-Files at El Museo del Barrio". Tema Celeste (Milán, Italia), Núm. 95, enero-febrero de 2003, p. 114.

Helguera, Pablo. "The S Files", Art Nexus (Miami, FL), Núm. 48, Vol. 2, 2003, pp. 147-148.

Kastner, Jeffrey. “Concerning the Spiritual in Art". Art Monthly (Londres), Núm. 256, mayo de 2002, pp. 1-6.

King, Elaine. ”None of the Above”. Sculpture (Estados Unidos), Núm. 1 Vol. 25, Febrero de 2006, pp. 74-76.

Leslie, Richard. “Whitney Biennial 02". Art Nexus (Miami, FL), Núm. 45, Vol. 3, 2002, pp. 73-74.

Pasquini, Stefano. “Interview with Javier Cambre”. New York Arts Magazine (Nueva York, EU), mayo de 2000, p. 41.

Trainor, James. "The Whitney Biennial". Tema Celeste (Milán, Italia), Núm. 91, mayo-junio de 2002, pp. 108-109.

Vázquez, Ralph. “Javier Cambre”. Art Premium (San Juan, PR), Vol. 2, Núm. 9, julio-agosto, pp. 19-22. 

Transition, Issue 105, Indiana University Press, 2011, p.148-155

Web

“Notes on the Leica M6, film and digital photography”. Leica Rumors, June 26, 2015 http://leicarumors.com/2015/06/26/notes-on-the-leica-m6-film-and-digital.aspx/