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Gongora (1932 - 1999)
Birth place: Cartago, Colombia
Studied: Washington Univ.
Exhibited: Confrontacion 1966, Mus. Bellas Artes, Mexico City,
1966; Am. Acad. Arts & Letters, New York, 1969; First Panam
Graphics Biennial, Mus. Latertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1971; Fourth
Int. Miniature Print Exhib., AAA Gallery, New York, 1971; Third
British Int. Print Biennale, Bradform Mus., England, 1972; Lerner-Misrachi
Gallery, NYC, 1970s. Awards: girst prize in drawing, Nat. Mus.,
Bogota, 1964; Nat. Acad. Arts & Letters Award in Painting,
New York, 1968; Tenth Nat. Arte Prize in Lithography, Mus. Latertulia,
1970.
Work: MoMA; NYPL; Wash. Univ. Permanent Collection, St Louis,
MO; Staatsgalerie Mus., Stuttgart, Germany; MOMA, Bogot·,
Colombia. Commissions: paintings, commissioned by Fernando Gamboa
for Mex Pavilion, Expo 1967, Montreal, PQ & Expo 1970, Osaka,
Japan; lithographs, Lublin, Inc., New York, 1969, Bank St Atelier,
New York, 1970 & Aquarius Press, New York, 1971.
Comments: Teaching: instructor, painting & drawing, People's
AC, St Louis, MO, 1956-59; professor, painting & drawing,
Iberoamericano Univ., Mexico, 1960-61; profesor, painting &
drawing, Univ. Mass., Amherst, 1963-. Publications: illustrator,
Mass. Review, 1967; illustrator, Minnesota Review, 1969; illustrator,
The Intricate Land, New Rivers Press, 1970; illustrator, Poemas
Podridos, Villa Miseria Press, 1972; contributor, Requirements
of Yesterday and Today, Spectrum, 1972.
Sources: WW73; Toby Joysmith, Two Painter Poets," The
News (Mexico City, Aug., 1969); Roberto Paramo, "Gongora,
el Erotismo en Persona," El (Mexico City, Oct., 1971);
Anna Mayo, "Never on Good Friday," Village Voice (New
York, Nov., 1971).
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