Ramon Carulla, Cuban Art Abstract Oil Painting Latin American Ramon Carulla Surrealist Folk Art

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Ramon Antonio Carulla (Cuban, born 1936).
Oil paintings on paper. Titled "When Dreams Become Reality"
Artist signature lower right. Title … Read more Ramon Antonio Carulla (Cuban, born 1936).
Oil paintings on paper. Titled "When Dreams Become Reality"
Artist signature lower right. Title on verso.
Retains original Joy Moos Gallery label. Sheet measures measures approximately 14 in. x 22 in. (paper). Framed 20.5 X 28.5
This painting is a mixed media with oil paint, on paper
It is hand signed recto and signed and titled verso.
An abstract naive, folk art, work depicting depicts colorful imaginative Surrealist figures. .

Ramon Carulla, born in Havana, Cuba in 1936 moved to the United States in 1967. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has participated in personal and group exhibitions in Canada, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain and throughout the USA.

Select Gallery Exhibitions:
Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, Florida),
The Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada),
The International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C.)
The Art Expo (New York City).

Select Awards:
First Prize at the VI Graphic Biennial of Latin America (1983; San Juan, Puerto Rico),
the Silvia Daro Dawidowicz Award for Painting (1980; Metropolitan Museum)
the Samuel Golan Award (1982, Fine Art Auction Exhibition; CH 2, Miami, Florida).
the Cintas Fellowship (Institute of International Education; United Nations, New York)


SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2005 Sonnet Gallery (Sarasota, Florida)
2000 Ramon Carulla: People and Places - Corbino Galleries,
1998 The Dreamers - Cuban Collection Fine Art (Coral Gables, Florida)
1997 The Immigrant Series – Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center (Miami, Florida)
1996-96 Ramon Carulla: Works on Paper – PJorn (Hamburg, Germany)
1994 Ramon Carulla: New Paintings, Plates & Boxes – The Barbara Scott Gallery
Rostros para recordar – Galería Traz (Mexico City, Mexico)
1993 Ramon Carulla, Exhibición Personal – Contemporary Art Museum (Panama)
1992 Ramon Carulla: Recent Work - The Barbara Scott Gallery (Bay Harbor, Florida)
1991 Cabinet Room – The Capitol (Tallahassee, Florida)
1988 Sofa & Hostage Series – Jay Moos Gallery
1987 20 Years After – Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida)
1985 Malcom Brown Gallery – (Cleveland, Ohio)
Mask Series – Forma Galley (Miami, Florida)
Masks, Hats, Other Headgear: A Retrospective - Schweyer-Gallardo Gallery
1983 Recent Works – VI Graphic Biennial (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
1980 Life Boundaries Series – Virginia Miller Gallery (Coral Gables, Florida)
1975 Atelier J. Lukacs (Montreal, Canada)
1967 Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida)


Ramón Antonio Carulla (born December 7, 1936 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist.
During his artistic life he took part in many collective exhibitions like "I Bienal de Artistas Noveles de Cuba". Centro de Arte Internacional, Havana, Cuba, 1965. He was included too in Drawing ’85"", 7th International Drawing Biennial. Middlesbrough Fine Arts Museum, Cleveland, Reino Unido, 1985. He was also one of the selected artists for "The Latin America Graphic Arts Biennial", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York, U.S.A, 1986. That year he was also presented the 8 Norwegian International Print Biennale Fredrikstad 1986. Fredrikstad, Noruega, 8th International Exhibition of Graphic Art: Triennial of Graphic Art. Frechen, R.F.A. In 1995 he participated in The 3rd Sapporo International Biennial. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. Ramon Carulla is included in the book MEMORIA: CUBAN ART OF 20TH CENTURY By Jose Veigas-zamora & Cristina Vives alongside masters like Amelia Pelaez and Wifredo Lam (Ramón Alberto Carulla) moved to the United States in 1965 and had his first one-man show exhibit shortly after in 1967 at The Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida). Latin American Surrealism. Since his first exhibit fifty years ago his work has been widely exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, France, Poland, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, England, Germany, Yugoslavia, Norway, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Egypt and Dubai.

Joy Moos gallery was an influential Miami gallery specializing in folk art, self-taught visionary, outsider and contemporary art (Galerie Moos, Montréal; Joy Moos Gallery, Miami. Joy was a recognized photographer, jewelry designer and interior decorator. She wrote a catalogue on Purvis Young and promoted Cuban artist Ramon Carulla. Her gallery also showed major contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg of Captiva Island and Edward Ruscha of Los Angeles.

MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art History Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida
Barnett Bank Corporation Collection, Miami, Florida
Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida
Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
Cabo Frio International Print Biennial Collection, Cabo Frio, Brazil
CBS International Corporation Collection, New York, New York
Centre International of Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York, New York
City Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland
Contemporary Museum of Art, Panama City, Panama
Contemporary Museum De Velez-Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Continental Bank International, Chicago, Illinois
Cuban Museum of Art & Culture, Miami, Florida
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Eastern National Bank, Coral Gables, Florida
Florean Museum, Maramures, Romania
Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Kochi-Ken, Japan
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Instituto Cultural Domecq, Mexico City, Mexico
International Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahia, Brazil
Japan Print Association Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Miami-Dade Public Library Permanent Art Collection, Miami, Florida
Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway
Museum of Contemporary Arts, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC
National Center of Art, Giza, Egypt
Norton Gallery Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Pace Collection, Miami, Florida
Pace Collection, New York, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pontifical University of Campinas, San Paulo, Brazil
Radford University Museum, Radford, Virginia
Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, Dubai
Societe des Artistes Internationals, Paris, France
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Tama University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
The New School of Social Research, New York, New York
The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Silvia Daro Davidowicz Permanent Collection, University of Miami Library, Coral Gables,
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C. See less