page_title: Jim Amaral
section_title: Selected solo
hierarchical_section_title: Jim Amaral / Exhibitions / Selected solo
caption_attribution_description: English: At home in fifth house, 2007; 20 × 20,5 × 25,5 cm; mixed technique.
context_page_description: Jim Amaral is an American-born Colombian artist known for his drawings and bronze sculptures. Over a career that spans more than half a century, Amaral has also been dedicated to painting, etchings, collages, furniture design, assemblages/objects, and artist’s books. The artist has been widely recognized for his draughtsmanship, the subtlety and refinement of his technique as well as his imaginative and cultured universe. As a constant experimenter, Amaral has developed a unique aesthetics and symbolism and therefore has never belonged to any style or movement in particular. However, his work has been linked, for example, to surrealism and ancient Greece. His art is deeply rooted in the psychological realms of the human existence. Amaral has always been focused on the condition of the human being, especially the topic of death and the passing time. "I am only trying to understand the world, to live through my painting. I am trying to understand certain mysteries, such as the energies of life and death, the loneliness of a man I paint what people can reflect upon, so that what stays with the spectator is not only the visual impact".
context_section_description: 2016 Chariots of Humankind. Galerie Agnes Mosplaisir, Paris, France.
  2015 Tiempos del nunca, Galería La Cometa, Bogotá, Colombia.
  2014 La oreja pasiva y otras fabulas, Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Colombia.
  2011 Islas Imaginarias, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
  2009 Presencia, Centro Cultural Corp Banca, Caracas, Venezuela.
  2008 Meridianos, Galería La Cometa, Bogotá, Colombia.
  2007 Medusas, Casa Amaral, Bogota, Colombia.
  2004  Trans/figuraciones 1960-2004, Retrospective exhibition curated by Jose Roca, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.
  2002 No-men: bronzes, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  2000 New Sculpture, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  1998 Monólogos, Galería Uno, Caracas, Venezuela.
  1993 Galeria der Brücke, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  1992 New Bronzes, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, May to June, Tesuque, New Mexico, USA.
  1991 Soliloquies, Sculptures, Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
  1988 Pinturas y Mesas, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia.
  1983 Metamorfosis (a retrospective exhibition), Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.; J.Amaral: La vida es una transformación transitoria, XVII São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil.
  1980 Floralies, Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris, France.
  1979 Pitture di Jim Amaral, Galleria del naviglio, Milan, Italy.
  1978 Amaral, Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany.
  1977 Galerie Octave Negru, Paris, France.
  1976 Amaral: Landscape of an absent finger, Galería Belarca, Bogotá, Colombia.
  1975 Galeria Belarca, Bogota, Colombia.
  1974 Amaral: Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris, France.
  1973 Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris, France.
  1971 Amaral, Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris, France.
  1969-1970 Jim Amaral: dibujos a lápiz, Galería Buchholz, Bogota, Colombia.
  1968 Jim Amaral: Drawings in the Graphics Corridor, Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
  1966 Jim and Olga Amaral, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Galería Colseguros, Bogotá, Colombia.
  1964 Jim Amaral: Dibujos, Collages, Oleos, Galería El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia.
  1962 Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.
caption: At home in fifth house, 2007; 20 × 20,5 × 25,5 cm; mixed technique.
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