Roberto Moya
Nueva York, U.S.A., 1935 - Boston, U.S.A., 2008
Biography Details
Painter, printmaker and digital artist. He studied at Eastern New Mexico University, the Pratt Graphic Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York, the New School for Social Research in New York, the Phoenix School of Design in Arizona, and the University of Southern California. His works have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in Puerto Rico and abroad, including a 1988 retrospective in Hawaii. At the end of the eighties, he ventured into digital graphics and in 1989 he created the first digital portfolio in Puerto Rico, which lead to an invitation from the Pratt Graphic Arts Center to lead a seminar. In the early nineties, he was named resident artist of the University of Puerto Rico, where he also was a professor. He often approached the digital medium as a research tool for his painting, what he called “an electronic notebook”, that allowed him to explore with colors before working on the canvas. The style of his pictorial work is semi abstract, characterized by quick brush strokes and loaded with pigment, which imparts a great expressive force to his images. He was paid posthumous homage in 2008 at the National Gallery of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
Formation
Education
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- Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, New Mexico, United States
- Pratt Graphics Art Center, New York, United States
- New School for Social Research, New York, United States
- New York Phoenix School of Design, New York, United States
- University of Southern California, California, United States
Professional Experience
1981
- Judge. Gulf Oil Competition, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1979
- Judge. Gran Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Founder. Galería Palomas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2008
- Homenaje Póstumo a Roberto Moya, Galería Nacional, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998
- De isla a isla, Hui-No’eau Visual Arts Centers, Hawaii, United States
1987
- Roberto Moya Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Galería Palomas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Group Shows
1987
- Neofiguration Trends, Park Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1984
- Exhibition of Latin American Art, Hunter College, New York, United States
1983
- VI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1981
- V Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1980
- Exxon Traveling Exhibition of Puerto Rican Art, Casa Blanca, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1979
- VIII Juegos Panamericanos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1977
- Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
1975
- Biennale Internationale de la Gravure, Kraków, Poland
- Exposición Internacional de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1973
- XII Bienal de Grabado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1972
- Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, United States
1962
- National Academy of Fine Arts, New York, United States
Collections
- Hyatt Dorado Beach Corporation, Dorado, Puerto Rico
- Palacio Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Nova Law School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Museo del Grabado, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- University of Southern California, California, United States
- Hunter College, New York, United States
- New York City Health & Hospital Corporation, New York, United States
- Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, New York, United States
- Museo Bacardi, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- AT&T Corporate Collection, United States
- Exxon Corporate Collection, United States
- Upjohn Corporate Collection, United States
- Avon Corporate Collection,United States
- Shearson American Express Collection, United States
- United Federal Savings Collection, United States
- Bank of America Corporate Collection, United States
- Citibank Corporate Collection, United States
- Newark Public Library, New Jersey, United States
- Host Marriott Collection, United States
- Arrow Fasteners Corporate Collection, United States
- V. Suarez & Company Collection, Puerto Rico
Bibliography
Catalogues
Colón, Doreen. “El santo en el arte puertorriqueño, devoción, imagen y trascendencia”. Museo de la Américas, Cuartel Ballajá, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996.
“Contexto puertorriqueño: del rococó colonial al arte global”, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
“Roberto Moya Paintings, Drawings and Prints”. Galería Palomas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1987.
Books
Bloch, Peter. Painting and Sculpture of the Puerto Ricans. New York: Plus Ultra, 1978, p. 213.
Delgado, Osiris. La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico. Tomo VIII, Artes Plásticas. Madrid: Ediciones R, 1976, p. 409.
Newspapers
Pérez Ruiz, José. “Retrospectiva de Roberto Moya en Hawaii”. El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 10 de junio de 1998, pp. E-16 – 17.
_____. “Creación en digital”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 20 de abril de 1989, p. 98.
_____. “Dos cuadros de Moya en el Hotel Dorado Beach”. El Reportero (San Juan, PR), 29 de diciembre de 1986.
Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto. “ASID celebrates Christmas with art”. The San Juan Star (San Juan, PR), 12 de diciembre de 1996.
“Tributo a Roberto Moya”. Primera Hora (San Juan, PR), 23 de octubre de 2008, p.65.
Magazines
Rechany, María C. “Exposición de Arte Contemporáneo en la Casa Alcaldía”. Artes Visuales, Revista Puertorriqueña de Arte, No.5, 1971, p. 4.
Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto. “Thinking along with Moya”. The San Juan Star Sunday Magazine, 30 de junio de 1991, pp. 10-11.
_____. “Exposición Botello y Moya”. Artes Visuales, Revista Puertorriqueña de Arte, Año 2, No. 8, p.17.