page_title: Olga de Amaral
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Olga de Amaral / Collections
caption_attribution_description: English: Nébula 4, 2015: 80 x 80 cm; Japanese paper, linen, gesso, acrylic paint and gold leaf.
context_page_description: Olga de Amaral is a Colombian visual artist known for her large-scale abstract works made with fibers and covered in gold and/or silver leaf. Because of her ability to reconcile local concerns with international developments, de Amaral became one of the few artists from South America to become internationally known for her work in fiber during the 1960s and ‘70s. She is also considered an important practitioner in the development of postwar Latin American Abstraction. She currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
context_section_description: Olga de Amaral's art is collected by major museums, corporations and private collectors. Her work is represented in the collections of over thirty museums, foundations, galleries and art schools. In Europe and Asia in the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris and Musée Jean Lurçat et de la Tapisserie Contemporaine in Angers in France, in the Toms Pauli Foundation in Lausanne and the Museum Bellerive in Zurich in Switzerland, in the Museum of Modern Art in Kioto in Japan. In the USA in the Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C., in the Rhode Island School of Design, in the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, in the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum in Michigan, in the Bass Museum in Miami and in the Palm Springs Art Museum, among others. In Colombia Olga de Amaral's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museo del Banco de la República, Museo de Arte Moderno and Museo Nacional of Colombia in Bogotá and in La Tertulia Museum in Cali, Colombia. Olga de Amaral's work is also part of numerous corporate collections worldwide, including Citibank in New York City, Le Méridien Hotel that is part of the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, the Omaha Public Library, Nuveen Investments in Chicago, Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C., Macquarie University in Sidney in Australia, Hotel Nicolás de Obando in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. In Colombia the artist's works are part of the permanent collections of Clínica Santa Fe de Bogotá, Club El Nogal, Federación Nacional de Cafeteros en Bogotá and in Coltejer in Medellín and the Hotel Santa Clara in Cartagena.
caption: Nébula 4, 2015: 80 x 80 cm; Japanese paper, linen, gesso, acrylic paint and gold leaf.
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