Zilia Sánchez Domínguez

Zilia Sánchez Dominguez is a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist born in Havana in 1926. She started her career as a set designer and an abstract painter for radical theatre groups[1] in Cuba before the Cuban revolution of 1953-59.[2] Sanchez blurs the lines between sculpture and painting by creating canvases layered with three dimensional protrusions and shapes. Her works are minimal in color, and have erotic overtones.[3]

Zilia Sánchez Dominguez
Born1926
NationalityCuban
Known forabstract painter

History

Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba.[4] Her mother was Cuban and her father Spanish.[5] In 1943 Sánchez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana and later had her first solo exhibition in 1953.[6] Following Fidel Castro's rise to power, Sanchez moved to New York where she studied printmaking at Pratt Institute.[4] She currently works in a pre-war wooden studio in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan, where much of her artwork was destroyed by water damage in 2018 during Hurricane Maria.[7] Her work was included in the influential exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.[8] She is a feminist pioneer in contemporary art.[9] Her Amazonas series features female warriors highlighting the female form[10] and her work has been described as having "sensual contours".[11]

Her artwork has been described as "overlooked" and "rarely seen outside of Puerto Rico."[12]

In 2019, the Phillips Collection exhibited her first museum retrospective, covering her 70-year career.[13]

Exhibitions
  • 2000 - Heroic/Erotic, Museum of the Americas - San Juan, Puerto Rico.[14]
  • 2013 - Artist's Space Gallery - New York City.[15]
  • 2014 - Heróicas Eróticas en Nueva York, Galerie Lelong - New York City.[16]
  • 2019 - Soy Isla (I Am an Island), Phillips Collection - Washington, D.C.[17]

References
  1. Gotthardt, Alexxa (2018-05-23). "11 Radical Latin American Women Artists You Should Know". Artsy. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  2. Cotter, Holland (2013-06-13). "Zilia Sánchez". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  3. "Three Cuban Artists Take On the Moon at Galerie Lelong". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  4. Furman, Anna (2019-11-29). "An Artist Who Transforms Paintings Into Cosmic Sculptures". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  5. Sretenovic, Vesela (2019). Zilia Sánchez : Soy Isla. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780300233902.
  6. Steinhauer, Jillian (2020-02-06). "Zilia Sánchez's Island of Erotic Forms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  7. Biesenbach, Klaus; Gregory, Christopher; Mclaughlin, Ariana (2018-01-25). "In Puerto Rico, Artists Rebuild and Reach Out". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  8. "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at Brooklyn Museum | BLOUIN ARTINFO". www.blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  9. Loiseau, Benoît (2017-09-21). "The Latin American Women Artists Who Fought Patriarchy with Their Bodies". Artsy. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  10. D'Addario, John (2017-05-30). "Canvas is just a starting place for Puerto Rican contemporary artists at Newcomb show". The New Orleans Advocate.
  11. "Puerto Rican Painters Who Fold, Cut, and Tear the Canvas". Hyperallergic. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  12. Pogrebin, Robin; Sokol, Brett (2015-11-26). "Art Basel Miami Beach: A Focus on Female Artists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  13. Sayej, Nadja (2019-02-12). "Zilia Sánchez: 92-year-old artist gets her first museum retrospective". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  14. Alvarez Lezama, Manuel (Aug–Oct 2000). "Zilia Sanchez". Art Nexus. Issue 37: 132–33 – via Art & Architecture Complete.
  15. Barral, Alberto (2013). "Zilia Sánchez". Art Nexus. 12:90: 121–22 – via Art & Architecture Complete.
  16. Schwabsky, Barry (September 2014). "Zilia Sánchez". Artforum International. 53:1: 373–74 – via Art & Architecture Complete.
  17. Vesela, Sretenović (2019-02-19). Zilia Sánchez : soy isla. Acevedo-Yates, Carla,, Cluck, Alyson,, Phillips Collection,, Ponce Art Museum,, Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.). New Haven. ISBN 0300233906. OCLC 1046461607.
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