• Vasija

    “Vasija*”

    Date 1998
    Dimensions 14" x 8"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translation: Vessel
  • Vasija

    “Vasija*”

    Date 2001
    Dimensions 22" x 14"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 21st Century
    Collection Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico Collection
  • Vasija amarilla

    “Vasija amarilla*”

    Date 1996
    Dimensions 16" x 14"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translation: Yellow vessel
  • Vasijas

    “Vasijas*”

    Date 1997
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translation: Vessels
  • Vasija verde

    “Vasija verde*”

    Date 1998
    Dimensions 8" x 6"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay, enamel and oxides
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translation: Green vessel
  • Vasija azul

    “Vasija azul*”

    Date 2004
    Dimensions 12" x 16"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 21st Century
    Collection *Title translation: Blue vessel
  • Vasijas

    “Vasijas*”

    Date 2011
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay, enamels and oxides
    Genre Abstract
    Period 21st Century
    Collection *Title translation: Vessels
  • Vasija roja

    “Vasija roja*”

    Date 1995
    Dimensions 19" x 14"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay, red enamel and oxides
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translation: Red vessel
  • Vasija del Mar

    “Vasija del Mar*”

    Date 1995
    Dimensions 21" x 18"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay and enamels
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection Casa Candina Collection
    Acknowledgement *Title translation: Sea vessel
  • Vasija

    “Vasija*”

    Date 1980
    Dimensions 18" x 8"
    Category Sculpture
    Medium Clay, enamels and oxides
    Genre Abstract
    Period 20th Century
    Collection *Title translataion: Vessel

Bernardo Hogan

Arrecifes, Argentina, 1921 - San Juan, P.R., 2020

Biography Details

Ceramist.  After living in Trinidad, he moved to Puerto Rico in 1968. He developed as a self‑taught artist by opening a ceramics workshop with his life partner, Susana Espinosa, and with Isabel Rivera. In 1980, he founded Casa Candina, alongside Espinosa, Toni Hambleton and Jaime Suárez, and became its director. He worked in the ceramics workshop of the Students Art League of San Juan. He was one of the organizers of the Casa Candina Award since 1988 and created several public works with Susana Espinosa, including the murals of the Caribe Hilton Hotel and the Bacardi distillery. Among the awards he received is the gold medal of the International Ceramics Competition in Faenza, Italy in 1995. Also of significance are the exhibitions presented at the Museum of Art and History of San Juan “Bernardo Hogan: Vessels” (1991) and the retrospective exhibitions of his work including “Bernardo Hogan: Artist of the Potter’s Wheel” (1995) and “Bernardo Hogan: A Retrospective” (2017) at the San Juan Museum. His work focused on the ceramic vessel as the only form he developed, working on the potter’s wheel to mold it because, according to the artist, the vessel is “a constant language in all ages”.

Artist Statement

Working clay on the potter’s wheel, the possibilities are limited and the restrictions obvious. Each turn of the wheel is a dynamic, immediate force that requires reasoning and action at the same time. Without the wheel, the construction process becomes one with more room for conception, providing time for planned or unplanned changes. Both clay approaches, so different and yet so perfectly coalescent one with the other, result in works, in this case vessels, that arise from a line of thought: the vessel, metaphorical or not, is a constant language from all times.

Bernardo Hogan, 2001

Source: Álvarez Lezama Manuel. Exposición Individual Bernardo Hogan, ArtNexus #41 - Arte en Colombia #87, Ago - Oct 2001

Formation

Profesional Experience

1980-Present

  • Co-Founder, Director and Faculty. Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996

  • Co-Organizer Casa Candina Award. Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1984

  • Instructor. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

1983

  • Lecturer. Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San German Campus, San German, Puerto Rico

1980

  • Ceramics Instructor. Art Student League, San Juan, Puerto Rico

nd                     

  • Professor of Clays and Enamels. Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2005

  • Bernardo Hogan: Recent Works, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

2001

  • Sin torno, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1995

  • Retrospectiva. Bernardo Hogan: Artista del Torno, Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1992

  • Vasijas: Bernardo Hogan, Centro Europa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1991

  • Bernardo Hogan: Vasijas, Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1990

  • Forma, Textura y Color, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1984

  • Vasija, Vasijas…, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group Shows

2011

  • Colección del Círculo de Arte, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico

2007

  • Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2004

  • Por Invitación, Galería Gandía, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2002

  • 5 Ceramistas Casa Candina, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico

2001

  • Intercambio 3 +2:Cuba, México, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Venezuela, Cerámicas pequeño formato, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1999

  • Intercambio 3: México, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cerámica pequeño formato, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela

1998

  • Cerámica Puertorriqueña Today/Hoy, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1997

  • SOFA Chicago’97, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, United States

1995

  • 5 Ceramistas, Casa de Rectoría, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico
  • Artistas puertorriqueños: Colección Chase Manhattan Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Intercambio 3: Cerámica en pequeño formato: México, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan Puerto Rico

1994

  • Colectiva de Cerámica, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Primera Muestra de Arte 1994: Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1993

  • Cerámica Contemporánea Hoy, Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1992

  • Doce artistas: obra reciente, Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 5 en Torno, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1991

  • Libros, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Cerámica Contemporánea en Casa Roig, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus, Humacao, Puerto Rico
  • Colección Casa Candina, Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan, Puerto Rico

1990

  • La caja, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Exposición Puertorriqueña contra el Hambre, Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • La cerámica en auge desde Puerto Rico, Galería Centro Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela

1989

  • Arte actual, colectiva de artistas en Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Exposición colectiva, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Apostrofe al verde: Homenaje al Yunque, Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1988

  • Art under the sun, Wilkov Godfeder Gallery, New York, United States

1987

  • II Trienal Mundial de la pequeña cerámica, Zagreb, Yugoslavia

1986

  • Encuentro de Ceramistas Contemporáneos de América Latina, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico; United States; Latin America
  • Barro y Fuego, Cerámica puertorriqueña actual, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1985

  • Cerámica Contemporánea Puertorriqueña, Galería Francisco Oller, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • 43 Concorso Internacional della cerámica d’arte, Museo Internazionalle delle Ceramiche, Palazzo de la Exposizione, Faenza, Italy

1984

  • Cerámica Contemporánea Puertorriqueña, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Humacao Campus, Humacao, Puerto Rico
  • 42 Concorso Internacional della cerámica d’arte, Museo Internazionalle delle Ceramiche, Palazzo de la Exposizione, Faenza, Italy

1982

  • 41 Concorso Internacional della cerámica d’arte, Museo Internazionalle delle Ceramiche, Palazzo de la Exposizione, Faenza, Italy

Awards, Distinctions and Achievements

1996

  • Top Honors, Best  Retrospective Exhibition, International Assoiation of Art Critcs, Puerto Rico Chapter, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1995

  • Gold Medal, Confederation of the Italian Free Handicraft Associations of Milan, International Competition of Contemporary Ceramic Art In Faenza, Faenza, Italy
  • Video, Bernardo Hogan artista del torno, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón; Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collections

  • Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche D’arte, Faenza, Italy
  • Casa Candina, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bibliography

Books 

Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico. “Puerto Rico - Arte e Identidad”. San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998, pp. 300-302.


Pérez-Lizano, Manuel. Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico 1950-1983 Cerámica, Escultura y Pintura, Universidad Central de Bayamón, Ediciones Cruz Ansata,  1985.


Sullivan, Edward. “Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century”. California: Phaidon Press, 2000, p. 114.  

 

Catalogues 

“Bernardo Hogan: Recent Works”, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos, 2005. 


Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.


“Hogan: Sin torno”, Galería Botello, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001.


“IV Gran Subasta de Arte Puertorriqueño”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2001. 

 

Newspapers 

Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “Capellán, Hogan, true chroniclers of our identities”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 3 de diciembre de 1998, p. 71. 


Álvarez Lezama, Manuel. “De visita por algunas galerías y museos”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 8 de marzo de 2001, p. 82. 


“Artista de la semana: Bernardo Hogan en Botello”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 24 de noviembre de 1998, p. 95. 


Canella, Sara. “Susana y Bernardo: Un romance con el barro”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de septiembre de 1995, pp. 69-71.


Colón Camacho, Doreen. “Barro y forma”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 14 de noviembre de 1995, pp. 82-83.


“En-cuadrado-doce ceramistas”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 2011. 


García Gutiérrez, Enrique. “Bernardo Hogan: Una lección magistral”. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo (San Juan, PR), 10 de septiembre de 1995, pp. 12-15.


García Gutiérrez, Enrique. “El nuevo reto de Bernardo Hogan”. El Nuevo Día, Revista Domingo (San Juan, PR), 13 de diciembre de 1998, pp. 16-17.


Toro, Ana Teresa. “Manos, arcilla y mucha historia”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de octubre de 2011.


Trelles Hernández, Carmen. “Una constelación en el MAP”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 28 de septiembre de 2006, pp. 80-81.  

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