• Woman

    “Woman ”

    Date 2002
    Dimensions 40"x 50"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Walk # 1 (exhibition McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas )

    “Walk # 1 (exhibition McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas )”

    Date 2006
    Dimensions Variable
    Category Installation
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • Girl

    “Girl”

    Date 2002
    Dimensions 40"x 50"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Entrance

    “Entrance”

    Date 2006
    Dimensions 30"x 40"
    Category Photography
    Medium Digital print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Corn Table

    “Corn Table”

    Date 2001
    Dimensions Variables
    Category Installation
    Genre Contemporary
    Period 21st Century
  • By the Waters

    “By the Waters”

    Date 2005
    Dimensions 30"x 40"
    Category Photography
    Medium Performance
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Boy & Dog

    “Boy & Dog ”

    Date 2005
    Dimensions 40"x 60"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Bather #2 (chest, arm)

    “Bather #2 (chest, arm)”

    Date 2001
    Dimensions 30"x 40"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Bather # 2 (2nd movement)

    “Bather # 2 (2nd movement)”

    Date 2001
    Dimensions 30"x 40"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century
  • Bather # 1 (bending in)

    “Bather # 1 (bending in)”

    Date 2001
    Dimensions 30"x 40"
    Category Photography
    Medium C- print, color print
    Genre Scenes
    Period 21st Century

Ernesto Pujol

La Habana, Cuba, 1957

Biography Details

Photographer, installation artist, painter, graphic artist. Pujol obtained his BFA from the University of Puerto Rico in 1979, after completing a certificado in history of art from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid in 1978. He studied theology in Miami, did graduate work in education at the Interamerican University’s Metropolitan Campus in San Juan, took a seminar in silkscreen printing at the Art Students League in San Juan, pursued graduate studies in art therapy at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and did graduate work in media theory at Hunter College. In 1997 he took part in the Sixth Havana Biennial and the Second Johannesburg Biennial. He was visiting artist at the Cooper Union in New York and at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Regional Fellowships and has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Since 1983, he has lived in New York. His work in painting, prints, installations, and photography, sometimes large-format, constantly alludes to subjects such as exile, objects and memory, the concept of freedom, and gender issues.

Artist Statement

"As a contemporary visual artist, I feel that the structure of my innermost existence was imperceptibly formed by countless familiar stories, invaluable narratives which are now my most formative heritage. My creative process originates from the accumulation of these stories, which my grandmother and her sister, my great-aunt, told me repeatedly throughout my childhood and adolescence. Consequently, my artistic work has as its source the oral history of my family according to the feminine and domestic viewpoint of its older women”.

Source: Ernesto Pujol, Catálogo Taxonomías, 1994

Formation

Education

2007

  • Master’s in interdisciplinary art practice. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

1990

  • Graduate work in Communications and Media Theory. Hunter College, New York, United States

1987

  • Graduate work in Art Therapy. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States

1985

  • Silkscreen Seminar. Liga de Estudiantes de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1984

  • Graduate work in Education. Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1980

  • Certification of Philosophy and Sociology. St. John Vianney Seminary, Miami, Florida, United States

1979

  • Bachelors in Humanities, Fine Arts Major. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1978

  • Certification in History of Art. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Professional Experience

2009- present

  • Adjunct Faculty. Fine Arts Department, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, United States

2010

  • Senior Interdisciplinary Curator, Manor House Galleries, Hacienda La Esperanza Nature Reserve, Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, Manatí, Puerto Rico

2009

  • Resident Faculty. Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, United States
  • Mentor. Immigrant Artists Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, United States

2006-2008

  • Senior Interdisciplinary Curator, Manor House Galleries, Hacienda La Esperanza Nature Reserve, Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico, Manatí, Puerto Rico

2008

  • Visiting Artist. Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan, United States
  • Visiting Professor, MFA Program, Bezalel Academy of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 

2007- 2008

  • Studio Instructor. MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, United States

2007

  • Guest Co-Mentor. MFA Program, Columbia University, New York, United States
  • Visiting Artist and Lecturer. MFA Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, United States

2006

  • Curator, Hacienda La Esperanza, Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico, Manatí, Puerto Rico

2005

  • Curator. Meditating America, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, United States 
  • Curator. Liquid Bodies, Magnan Projects, Chelsea, New York, United States

2004

  • Professor. Graduate Program, Visual Arts Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States

1998-2005

  • Art teacher. Master’s Program in Fine Arts Visual Culture, Union Institute, Montpelier, Vermont, United States

2003

  • Co-curator. Share Your Vision, Artist Space, New York, United States
  • Co-curator. Bienal de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

2001- 2004

  • Guest Professor. Graduate Program, Visual Arts Department, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States

2000

  • Curator. The Flesh of Boys, The Flesh of Girls, PS122, New York, United States

1999, 2000, 2003

  • Professor. Sculpture Department, School of Art, Cooper Union, New York, United States

1999

  • Curator. Desire, National Arts Club and Syracuse University, New York, United States

1998-2000

  • Professor and teacher. Master’s Program in Fine Arts Visual Culture, Union Institute, Montpelier, Vermont, United States

1999

  • Resident Artist. Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Guest Professor. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Guest Artist. Bezalel Art Academy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1998

  • Guest Artist. Sculpture Department, School of Art, Cooper Union, New York, United States
  • Guest Artist. Visiting Artists Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

1996

  • Guest Artist. Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1996-1997

  • Coordinator. 1990s’ Art from Cuba: A National Residency and Exhibitions Program, Art in General, New York, United States

1992-1993

  • Administrator. The Drawing Center, New York, United States

1991

  • Gallery Assistant. Longwood Arts Project, Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, United States

1990-1991

  • Art Advisor. Center for Cuban Studies, New York, United States

Lectures

  • McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States
  • Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona, United States
  • New York State University, Buffalo, New York, United States
  • Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Tucson Museum of Art & University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
  • Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States
  • Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, Education Initiative at the Harvey Milk School, New York, United States
  • Drew University, Madison,  New Jersey, United States
  • New York University, New York, United States
  • Institute of Fine Arts, New York, United States
  • Parsons School of Design, New York, United States
  • Columbia University, New York, United States
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California United States 

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2011

  • Speaking in Silence, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
  • Walking Ground, The Contemporary, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
  • Visitation, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, United States

2010

  • Farmers Dream, Salina Art Center, Kansas Awaiting, Utah State Capitol Steps, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
  • Video Selections, Project Wall,  Project Wall, Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

2009

  • Grass Circle, Skowhegan, Maine, United States

2008

  • Tzofia, Tel Aviv Philharmonic House Garden Baptism, Memminger Theater, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
  • Inheriting Salt, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States 

2007

  • The Water Cycle, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Memorial Gestures, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States 

2006

  • Walk #1 & MourningCircle, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, United States

2005

  • The Promised Land, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States

2003

  • Silence of Songbirds, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States
  • Becoming the Land, Salina Art Center, Kansas, Missouri, United States
  • Human Fields, Brito Cimino Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2002    

  • American Fields, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, United States 
  • American Fields, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, United States 
  • American Fields, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • The Bathers, Priska Juschka Fine Arts, New York, United States

2001

  • El cuerpo de la fe, Galería Pancho Fierro, Lima Municipality, Lima, Peru
  • Ernesto Pujol: Conversion of Manners, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, United States
  • Loss of Faith, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States

2000

  • Conversion of Manners, Museo del Barrio, New York; Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Ernesto Pujol:Whiteness, Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • Hagiografía, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

1999

  • Memory of Surfaces, Art Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Whiteness, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, United States
  • Hagiography, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, United States
  • Ernesto Pujol, Peri Photography Center, Turku, Finland

1997

  • The Picnic, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States
  • Ernesto Pujol, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, United States
  • Juegos, Galería Joan Guaita, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Vaqueros e indios, Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1996

  • La mesa de Saturno,Fundación Ludwig, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba
  • Winter, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

1995

  • Collapses, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida, United States
  • Los hijos de Pedro Pan, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
  • Taxonomies, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico 

1994

  • Installations, INTAR, New York, United States

1993

  • New Work, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, United States

1984

  • Experimento en temática religiosa, Taller D’Jevarez, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group Shows

2011

  • Inhabiting the Space, The Marina Abramovic Studio, New York, United States
  • Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, United States

2010

  • Selections, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, United States

2009

  • Intimacy! Bathing in Art, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany 
  • Homage to Tzofia, Second Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, Israel 
  • Animalkind, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, California, United States

2008

  • NeoHooDoo, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Miami Art Museum, Heartland, Miami; The Menil Collection, Houston; PS1, New York, United States

2006

  • Time and transition in Contemporary Cuban Art, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2005

  • Rewind… Rewind…, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2004

  • Papelería, Galería Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Water Table, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, North Carolina, United States
  • Birspace, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; Norton Art Museum, Florida, United States
  • Lauderdale, The Hudson River Museum, New York, United States
  • Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California, United States

2003

  • Sharks in the Morning, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States
  • Only Skin Deep Online,International Center of Photography, New York, United States
  • Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, United States

2002

  • Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
  • Hot City, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida, United States

2001

  • Peppermint, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, United States
  • Daily Life, Rudolph Projects, Houston, Texas, United States
  • Domestic Disturbance, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, Missouri, United States
  • Signs of Life, Galería Ramis Barquet, New York, United States
  • Antropologías, Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
  • Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Jonson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
  • Políticas de la diferencia, Municipalidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
  • Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Summit, New Jersey, United States
  • Reconsidering the Renaissance, Bridgewater/Luster & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, United States

2000

  • This is not the Place, Ramapo College, New Jersey, United States
  • Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
  • Manly, Art in General, New York, United States
  • Hagiography, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

1999

  • Bodies of Resistance, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, United States 
  • Whiteness, Perspectives, Special Projects, Paris Art Fair, Paris, France
  • Uniform, Art Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, United States
  • Maps of Desire, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria; Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998

  • Espacios en Transición, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Some Like it Hot, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, United States
  • Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
  • Garden of Forking Paths, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Edsvik konst & kultur, Suecia; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finlandia; Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark

1997

  • Alternating Currents, Second Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa, Africa
  • Memory and Mourning: Shared Cultural Experience, Art Museum, Albany, New York, United States
  • Así está la cosa: instalación y arte objeto en América Latina, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
  • Second Saaremaa Biennaal, Estonia
  • VI Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba

1996

  • Cuba siglo XX: modernidad y sincretismo, Centre Dart Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain: Fundación La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 
  • Domestic Violence, PS 122, New York, United States
  • Escape, Scheele Memorial Library, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, United States

1995    

  • The House Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Division of Labor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States
  • Trofeos de la Guerra Fría, Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
  • La isla posible, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona, Spain
  • Reaffirming Spirituality, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
  • Other Choices, Other Voices, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, New York, United States

1994

  • Inquisitive Art, Reed College Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon, United States

1992

  • Revealing the Self, Paine Webber Gallery, New York, United States
  • The Enduring Thread, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States

1991

  • AIM Program Eleventh Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States 

Awards, Distinctions and Achievements

2010

  • First Artist in Residence. Marva and John Warnock Art Residency Program,  Art & Art History Department, College of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

2009

  • Distinguished Chair for the Visual Arts. Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, United Sates

2008

  • Art Matters, New York, United States
  • Photography Fellowship. New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, United States
  • Award. International Association of Art Critics, New England Chapter, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

2006-2007

  • Distinguished Fellow. Graduate Sculpture Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

2006

  • Distinguished Fellow in Interdisciplinary Art Practice. The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States 

2002    

  • Grant. Cuban Artists’ Fund, New York, United States

1998 

  • Fellowship. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, United States

1997 

  • Fellowship. Cintas Foundation Foundation, New York, United States
  • Fellowship. Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, United States

1994

  • Fellowship. Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Baltimore, Maryland, United States 

1993

  • Fellowship. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, United States

1991

  • Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States        
  • Studio Program. Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, United States
  • Fellowship. Cintas Foundation, New York, United States

Collections

  • Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
  • Bronx Art Museum, New York, United States
  • Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood, New York, United States
  • Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba 
  • Cintas Foundation Fellows Collection, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States
  • El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
  • Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States 
  • Light Work Visual Studies, Syracuse, New York, United States
  • McNayt Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, United States
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. United States
  • Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Bibliography

Catalogues

 “Taxonomías/Taxonomies: Ernersto Pujol”, Galería Ramis Barquet, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1993.


“Loss of Faith. Enersto Pujol”, Galería Ramis Barquet, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 2001.


“Ernesto Pujol”, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos, 1996.


“Ernesto Pujol. Hagiography”, Galería Ramis Barquet, Nueva York, Estados Unidos, 1999.