Toomey Tourell Fine Art: German Herrera

German Herrera

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Born September 18. 1957, México City

Education

2005 – 2010 S.N. Goenka Vipassana; three trainings, Occidental, CA

1998 – 2000 Community Healing and Leadership Training, El Cerrito, CA

1999 Workshop with Mary Ellen Mark, Oaxaca, Mexico.

1979 – 1980 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1978 – 1979 City College of San Francisco, CA

Awards and Honors

2010 Federal Assistance grant recipient. Guest exhibiting artist for Photoimagen festival 2010, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

2009 “Thoughts & Seeds” and “A chronicle of the sub-conscious,” hand made artist books acquired by the Green Library in Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

2007 Short list nominee, 2007 Aperture West Book Prize award

2006 Selected for Photoalliance’s 2007 Collector Print Program, San Francisco, CA

2006 Selected for the Center for Photographic Art’s Print Collector’s program, Carmel, CA

2006 Art Residency, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

2006 Nominated for the John Gutmann photography Fellowship. San Francisco Foundation.

2006 Nominated for the Djerassi art residency program, James Irvine Foundation.

2006 Nominated for the All Roads Film Program/National Geographic Magazine.

2006 Nominated for the Bitmap-International Digital Photo, LOOP, Seoul, Korea.

2005 Nominee, SECA Awards, SFMOMA, CA

2005 “Germán Herrera,” “The Shadow of What I See” and “A Book of Mirrors,” hand made artist books purchased. Green Library, Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

2004 Marin Arts Council Photography grant, CA

2004 Selected for SF Camerawork’s Fine Print Collector’s Program, San Francisco, CA

2004 Nominee, Eureka Fellowship Program, 2005–2007; Fleischhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA

1998 Marin Arts Council Photography grant, CA

1998 Nominee, Eureka Fellowship Program, 1999–2001 Fleischhacker Foundation; San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Centro Fotográfico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2012 Smith Andersen North Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

2010 Entre el aquí y el ahora (Between Here and Now), guest artist of Photoimagen 2010, Capilla de los Remedios, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

2010 El Silencio como punto de partida (Silence as departure point), installation of projected imagery and a sound landscape, Semana de Música Religiosa and Reseña de arte digital, Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain.

Germán Herrera, Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca, Spain.

2009 De Santos Gallery, Houston, TX

2007 Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2006 Center for Photography Woodstock, NY

2006 De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

2006 Caffé Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

2006 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

2006 Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico.

2006 Fototeca de Veracruz, Mexico.

2005 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR

2005 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.

2005 Centro Fotográfico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2005 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

2004 Fusion Artspace, San Francisco, CA

2004 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA

1998 Así lo veo yo [This is how I see it], Galería Soruco, Oaxaca, Mexico.

1995 Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA

1989 Porción de tierra enteramente rodeada por agua [Portion of earth entirely surrounded by water], Galería Kahlo-Coronel, Mexico City.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 ReGeneration: Eight contemporary photographers defy the generation gap, a.Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010 Houston Center for Photography Auction Exhibit, Houston, TX

2010 SF Camerawork Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA

2010 Fotofest Fine Print Auction, Doubletree Hotel, Houston, TX

2010 Created and Found Maps: Exploration of Self and World; curated by Frazier King, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2010 Las Expresiones, Celebrating Latino Artists of the Bay Area, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA

2010 SF Camerawork, Auction preview show, San Francisco, CA

2009 Beyond Place: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

2009 In Transit, visual artists in support of The Anza Falcó Museum of Design; Two Allen Center, Houston, TX

2009 The Seduction of Duchamp, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA. Curated by Hanna Regev.

2009 SF Camerawork, Auction preview show, San Francisco, CA

2009 Big Brothers, Big Sisters auction-exhibit, Piatti, Mill Valley, CA

2009 SF Camerawork, Auction preview show, San Francisco, CA

2008 Ten, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2008 Bonhams & Butterfields annual show, San Francisco, CA

2008 Quiet Spaces: Photography of Interiors, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 Escenarios emocionales, Blanca Berlín Galería, curated by Alejandro Castellote, Fotoespaña. Madrid, Spain.

2008 SF Camerawork, Auction preview show, San Francisco, CA

2008 Quiet Spaces, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 Photo Miami, Stephen Cohen booth, Miami, FL

2007 Convergence: CCA Alumni, Oakland Airport, curated by Carin Adams, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2007 Revelación, revuelta y ficción, Hecho en Latinoamérica, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.

2007 Americas as Source, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2006 Stephen Cohen Gallery booth at Photo Miami, Miami, FL

2006 SF Camerawork auction preview show, San Francisco, CA

2006 Center for Photographic Art’s 16th Annual Awards Exhibition, Carmel, CA

2006 Aftermath Project auction preview, NYC

2006 Friends Without a Border Auction preview show, Metropolitan Pavillion, NY

2006 The Photograph as Representation and Reflection of Cultural Objects, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD and Prada Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2006 Stephen Cohen Gallery booth at Photo San Francisco, CA

2006 Bitmap-International Digital Photo Project, LOOP, Seoul, Korea.

2006 Photo Books Now, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA

2005 Winter Wonderland: Fantasy and Illusion, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

2005 Latin Spirit, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 Marin Arts Council Grantees Exhibit 2003–2004, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA

2005 En Masse: Work by Camerawork Members, SF Camerawork, CA

2004 Memories, Dreams and Reflections-Artists exploring the psyche with art.

2004 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 Near and Far: Idea of Place, Artsbenicia Gallery, Benicia, CA

2003 Sustaining Vision, curated by Anne Tucker, Pacific Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2003 Stone, curated by Fernando Castro, Mexican Cultural Institute (Instituto Cultural Mexicano), Miami, FL, and Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.

2002 73rd Crocker-Kingsley Exhibition 2002 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

2002 Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

1998 Artists Grantee Showcase Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA

1993–1996 A Shadow Born of Earth, Contemporary Mexican Photography, San José Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA and Boston College Museum of Art, MA.

1992 Día Mundial del Artista (with the group Renacimiento Tenochtitlán), Rull Building, Mexico City.

1992 Escenarios Rituales [Ritual Scenography], Fotonoviembre, Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

1990 Other Images/Other Realities: Mexican Photography since 1930, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX

1990 What’s New: Mexico City, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1990 Muestra de fotografía ambientalista [Environmental Photography Show], Museo de Arte Álvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil, INBA, Mexico City.

1989 Memoria del tiempo: 150 Años de Fotografía en México, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA, Mexico City.

1988 Iconografía de la anticipación [Iconography of Anticipation], Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, INBA, Mexico City.

1987 Colectiva del Taller de los Lunes, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, Mexico City, and Fototeca de La Habana, Cuba.

1986 39 Mexican Photographers, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

1986 Retrato de lo eterno [Portrait of the Eternal], Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.

1980 Trade Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Publications

The Lure of Cartography, essay by Fernando Castro, Spot Magazine, Vol. 28 No. 2, Fall 2010.

El Libro de la 49 Semana de Música Religiosa, Fundación Patronato SMR, Cuenca, España; portafolio.

Zyzzyva Magazine (81, Winter 2007) (portfolio).

Eyemazing Magazine (Spring 2007) (portfolio with an interview by Heather Snider).

Visual Communications Quarterly (12: 3–4, Summer-Fall 2007), cover and pp. 232–241 (portfolio).

Williams Rick and Julianne Newton, Visual Communication/Integrating Media, Art and Science (New York: Lawrenece Earlbaum Associates, 2007), pp. 43, 192, and 196.

Paul Smart, “Glimpses of Vastness. Photography by Germán Herrera at Center for Photography at Woodstock,” in Woodstock Times (September 11, 2006).

Shift: At the frontiers of consciousness (6, Institute of Noetic Sciences, March-April 2005), p. 32.

Shift: At the frontiers of consciousness (8, Institute of Noetic Sciences, September-November 2005), p. 20.

Munro, Donald, “Herrera’s Images Capture a Shadowy, Surreal World,” in Fresno Bee (July 10, 2005).

Nueva Luz (9: 2, 2003), p. 28 (portfolio and comments by Charles Biasiny-Rivera and Elizabeth Ferrer).

Zyzzyva Magazine (67, Spring 2003), p. 77 (portfolio).

“La sombra de lo que veo,” in Periódico de Poesía (nueva época: 4, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Summer 2002), p. 34 (portfolio with poems by Francisco Martínez-Negrete).

“A Shadow Born of Earth/Through the Lens of Mexico’s Past, 16 Artists Focus on Today’s Issues,” in Night & Day Supplement, San Diego Union Tribune (March 30, 1995) (interview by Robert L. Pincus).

Uriarte, María Teresa, El juego de pelota en Mesoamérica. Raíces y supervivencia (Mexico: Siglo xxi, América Nuestra, 39, 1994), pp. 103–133.

Photo Metro magazine(8: 79, May 1990), p. 11 (portfolio).

Coronel Rivera, Juan, El Faro, Revista de Literatura y Arte (Mexico, Nueva época:1, January-March 1990) (portfolio review).

Luna, Andrés de, “Opacidad y transparencia: el juego de la mirada,” in La Jornada Semanal (May 1991).

Santamarina, Guillermo, “Porción de tierra enteramente rodeada por agua,” in Fotozoom (August 1990, portfolio).

Castellanos, Alejandro, “La generación de los Ochentas,” Fotozoom (Mexico: 162, March 1989).

Vera, César, “La muerte moderna de la fotografía,” in México en el Arte (16, Spring 1987).

Historia natural de las cosas (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Río de Luz, 1986).

Mercados indios (Mexico: Archivo Etnográfico Audiovisual, Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1982).

Hecho en Latinoamérica/México (Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1982).

Lectures and Workshops

2012 “Aiming the camera within” A personal photographic investigation. Centro de las Artes San Agustín, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2011 Guest Lecturer, California College for the Arts, Oakland, CA

2011 Summer. Centro de las Artes de San Agustin (CaSa) Oaxaca, Mexico.

2007 Guest lecturer, California College for the Arts and San Francisco Art Institute 2007/2008.

2006 Opening lecturer for Arno Minkkinen, Photoalliance, SFAI. Guest lecturer, University of California, Visual Studies/College of Environmental Design Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute and California College for the Arts, Oakland, CA

2005 Workshop taught at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico DF

2005 Guest lecturer, University of California, Department of Art, Santa Cruz

1995 Invited by the San José Art Museum and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA, San Diego) to give a series of conferences as part of their cultural outreach programs.

1995 Guest artist, Route One gallery. “Artists in the schools” program , Point Reyes, CA