Born in Bogotá, Colombia 1963
Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
1988-1990
Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, USA
1987-1988
Graduate Sculpture Program, Pratt Institute New York, USA
1981-1985
BA in Visual Arts, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
1981-1982
Architecture, Universidad del los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Emu Wear, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2008
Mimicry, Berenice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, USA
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Galeria Casas-Reigner, Bogota, Colombia
2006
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Death Becomes Her, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Emu, next 5 km, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA
2004
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, GRANTPIRRIE Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: 20 años, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Cara de Buseta (Bus Face), Galeria Diners, Bogotá, Colombia
2003
Cara de Buseta (Bus Face), Casas Reigner, Miami, Florida USA
ZOOmorphia: CONTACT _Con-3DCD2C551 \c \s \l Maria Fernanda Cardoso, MCA, Sydney, Australia
BIOgometries (BIOgeometras), Latincollector, New York, USA
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Galeria Diners, Bogota, Colombia
Sheep, Artspace, Sydney, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., USA
2002
Butterfly Drawings, Galeria Casas-Riegner, Miami, Florida, USA
Dibujos de Mariposas (Butterfly Drawings), Galeria Diners, Bogotá, Colombia
2000
Cardoso Flea Circus, Installation, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
Esculturas (Sculptures), Galeria Sala Alternativa, Caracas, Venezuela
1998
Cardoso Flea Circus, video installation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1996
Cardoso Flea Circus, installation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1995
Love Down Under, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
1994
Submarine Landscape, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA
Woven Water, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Recent Sculptures, MIT List Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA
1993
Cemetery, Chapman University, Orange County, California, USA
Gold, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
1992
Calabazas (Gourds), San Francisco Artspace, San Francisco, USA
Botuto Guarura (Gourds), Sala Alternativa, Caracas, Venezuela
El Marmol Americano (American Marble), Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1991
Obra Reciente (Recent Work), Galeria Garcés y Velasquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1987
Nuevos Nombres (New Names), Casa de La Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia
PERFORMANCES
2008
Emu Wear, Berenice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, USA
Emu Wear, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
2000
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland.
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Australia.
1998
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Quartier D’ete.
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Awesome International Children’s Festival, Perth, Australia.
1997
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, Arts Festival Atlanta.
1996
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.
1995-1996
Cardoso Flea Circus Live, San Francisco Exploratorium
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston Open Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2009
Addressing Identities, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA Curated by Barbara Bloemick
Thesis, Victorian College for the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF.
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2008
Grantpirrie at Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Otras Floreas, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brasil Curated by Jose Roca
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Hecho a Mano, Galeria Casas-Reigner, Bogota, Colombia
Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art – Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, – The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Viva la muerte – Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Australian, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
50 X 50, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2007
Puntos de Vista. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Lateinamerika. Daros-Latinamerica Collection.
Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Homing Devices, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latinamerica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, Patio Herreriano – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid
National Australia Bank Sculpture Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Media/New Materials: Highlights in Contemporary Art from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati
Arte Colombiano en la Coleccion del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota 60-00, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota
Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latinamerican Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Maria Fernanda Cardoso; Jacky Redgate & Imants Tillers – Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
Arte Colombiano Eñ La Colección Del Mambo – Años 60 – 2000 – MAMBO – Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Santafé de Bogota
2006 TRANSactions – Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art – Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, CA
MCACollection: New Acquisitions 2006, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Nature in the Garage, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canada
Earth Cry, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Animal as Allegory, QUT Brisbane
We are Australian too, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
Swell, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Marca Registrada, Museo Nacional, Bogotá
Big Juicy Paintings – MAM – Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2005
Riverside Walk, permanent public art piece, Miami, USA
Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, Australia
National Sculpture Prize, National Art Gallery, Canberra, travelling exhibition, Australia
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latinamerica, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
Bug City, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
Swell, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Australia
Ecos y Contrastes – Arte Contemporáneo en la Colección Cisneros – MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Puerto Rico
Otras Miradas – Arte Contemporáneo de Colombia – Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
2004
Otras miradas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber MACSI Venezuela. Galería Gabriela Mistral, Galería Metropolitana, la Galería Bech, la Galería Balmaceda, Galería Posada del Corregidor, Chile. Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Memorial de América de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Museo de Artes de Peru. Casa de América Latina de París France. Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros Latinamerica Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Jupiter’s Art Prize, (Awarded 1st Prize) Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia
XXXIX Salon Nacional de Artistas, Bogotá, Colombia
Material Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. USA
El final del eclipse, Fundación Telefónica, Santiago de Chile, Fundación Telefónica Lima, Perú, Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brasil..
Urban Echoes: Wind, River, Trees, Clouds, Chickens, and Orange, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2003
IV Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Cardoso Flea Circus, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Fourtell, Casas Reigner Gallery, Miami, USA
Corporal, Schimidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Vestido de Mujer – dpm Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil
El final del eclipse – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, México
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires,Argentina
2002
Material World: 25 Years of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
There is Something About Repetition - Casas Riegner Gallery, Santafé de Bogota
Animalandia. Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art – MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Politicas de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano de Fin de Siglo (Politics of Difference:
Ibero-American – Art at the End of the Century), Centro de Convenciones de Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Museo Constantini (MALBA) de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, U.S.A.; Museo Reales Artarazanas, Valencia, Spain
El final del eclipse – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico
2001
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art – Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, La Caixa Forum Barcelona, Spain, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio,
Bienal del Barro (Biennale of Mud), Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Club Latino, Casula Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Politicas de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano de Fin de Siglo (Politics of Difference:
Ibero-American – Art at the End of the Century), Centro de Convenciones de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil with international tour.
Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Final Del Eclipse (End of the Eclipse), Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain, Spain. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Badajoz, Spain; Fundación Caja Granada, Instituto de
Santa Fe (Granada), Diputación Provincial de Granada.
2000
Versiones del Sur: 5 propuestas en torno al arte en Latinoamerica (Versions of the
South: 5 proposals around Latin American Art), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, MCASD La Jolla, California
Almost Warm and Fuzzy – Childhood and Contemporary Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art – SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Send in the Clowns – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
1999
Modern Starts: People, Places, Things, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA commissioned installation: Cementerio-Jardin Vertical (Cemetery: Vertical Garden).
Almost Warm and Fuzzy – Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Center for the Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
1998
Sliding Scale, SECCA South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Generacion Intermedia (Intermediate Generation), Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
1997
Of Mudlarkers and Measurers, Agnes Ethenington Art Center, Ottawa Art Gallery, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1996
Collective Soul, Galeria Marina Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Natura Morte (Still Life), Institute fur Auslandsbeziehumgen Galerie, Stuttgart and Bonn, Germany
Quinta Bienal de Bogotá (Fifth Biennale of Bogotá), Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Fuera de Limite (Out of Bounds), Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, USA
The Essential Object, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, California, USA
Explorations Part I: The Shoreline, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz, California, USA
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Changing Spaces: Artists projects from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, curated by Mary Jane Jacobs, Vancouver Art Gallery; Arts Festival Atlanta, Georgia, Miami Art Museum, Norton Museum, Florida
1995
Confronting Nature: Silenced Voices, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA
About the Size of It, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, USA (World Premiere of the Cardoso Flea Circus)
1994
Ante América. Actualidad latinoamericana – MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José
Animal, John Michael Kholer Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
Punto de Apoyo (Point of Support), Expo Arte Guadalajara ‘94, Mexico; travelled to Colombian Center, New York, USA; Galeria Deimos, Bogotá, Colombia
Cartographies, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, The Brox Museum of the Arts, Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
The Flag Show, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
Klima Global-Arte Amazonas (Global Climate – Amazonian Art) Kunst Forum Museum, Aachen, Dresden, Germany
1993
Lingua Latina est Regina (Latin Language is Regal) Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Cartographies, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas, Americas Society, New York, Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; São Paulo, Brazil
Klima Global-Arte Amazonas (Global Climate – Amazonian Art), Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Kunst Forum Museum, Aachen, Dresden, Germany
1992
Entre-trópicos (Between Tropics), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Work in Progress by Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Contemporary Images, The Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Klima Global-Arte Amazonas (Global Climate – Amazonian Art), Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderno de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Anteamerica,, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; toured until 1994.
1991
Cuarta Bienal de La Havana (4th Havana Biennale), Centro Wilfredo Lam, Habana, Cuba
Instalaciones (Installations), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia
1990
II Bienal de Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Arte Colombiano de los 80 – Escultura (Colombian Art from the 80’s-Sculpture), Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá, Colombia
XXXIII Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXXIII National Artists Salon), Feria Exposicion, Bogotá, Colombia
1988
I Bienal de Arte de Bogotá (First Bogotá Biennale), Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1987
XXXI Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXXI National Artists Salon), Aeropuerto Rionegro, Medellín, Colombia
1986
XXX Salon Nacional de Artistas (XXX National Artist’s Salon), Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
1985
Salon de Arte Joven (Young Art Salon), Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Tate Gallery, London
Daros Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Fooundation, Miami, Fl
Coleccion Cisneros, Venezuela, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Miami Art Museum
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bogotá
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá
Gold Coast Art Gallery, Gold Coast
VIDEO FESTIVALS
Cardoso Flea Circus 8 min colour video, co-directed with Ross Rudesh Harley 1997: Medianale, Berlin, 1997; Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, 1997; Espacio Vacio, Bogota; Norton Museum, Florida, 1998; VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo, 1998; Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, 1998; AV-arkki, Helsinki, 1998; Philadelphia International Film
1998; Festival.Medianale, Berlin Film Festival, 1998; MuuMediaFestival X,Helsinki, 1998; SBS TV Australia, 1998-2000; D.art 98, Sydney; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000.
Second Annual Video Marathon, Art in General, New York, 2000
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting artist California Institute for the Arts, 1991-1993
Visiting artist Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia 1995
Visiting artist San Francisco Art Institute, 1995
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS and FELLOWSHIPS
Represented Colombia for the Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003
First Prize, Jupiter’s Art Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Australia, 2004
First Prize, II Bogota Bienalle, Mambo, Colombia, 1990
Commissioned wall installation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1999-2000
Commissioned public art work, One Miami Riverside Walk, USA 2005
Commissioned video work and installation, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA 1996-1997
Artist’s grant from the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council, 2001
Artist in residence GRAPHICSTUDIO, USF Tampa Florida 2008-2009
Artist in residence Bundanon Trust, Australia, 2008 -2009
Artist in residence, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philladelphia 1996
Artist in residence, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, 1994
Artist in residence, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, USA 1994
Artist in residence, San Francisco Artspace, 1993
Artist’s grant from the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, Colombia, 1993
Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, USA 1989-1990
Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Studies, Banco de la Republica, Colombia 1987-1989