Winston Wächter Fine Art | Seattle :: the biography of Caio Fonseca

Caio Fonseca was born in New York City in 1959. In 1978 he went to Barcelona where he studied and painted until 1983. He moved to Pietrasanta, Tuscany in 1985 where he worked until 1989. After two years in Paris, he returned to New York in 1992 and now divides his time between Pietrasanta and his studio in Manhattan on East Fifth Street. His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States.

Solo Exhibitions
2007	Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2005	Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
2004	Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2003	Instituto Valeniano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2002	John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2001	Douglas Udell Gallery Vancouver, BC, Canada Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2000	John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis , MO David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
1999	Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, CA Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, N.C.
1998	John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Knoedler & Co., New York, NY
1996	Knoedler & Co., New York, NY Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX
1995	John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994	Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1993	Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1991	Galeria Anna Ricart, Barcelona, Spain
1985	Vill D'elatre, Lucca, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006	"Black + White," Nathan Bernstein & Co, Ltd., New York, NY "Sliding Scale ," Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
2005	"Cross Section," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY "Fuori Tema/Italian Feeling," XIV Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy
2004	"Expansion," Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2003	"Rotations" Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY "Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2002	"New York Renaissance: Selections from the Whitney Museum," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy "Abstraction," Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2001	"Summer 2001," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2000	"Painting," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
1999	"Processes," Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton and Vancouver, Canada "Acquisitions," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Abstraction," Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI "Abstract Painting," Robert Kidd Gallery, New York, NY
1997	"Basically Black & White," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY "Purely Painting," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York "Contemporary Masterworks," Knoedler & Co., New York
1996	"The New York Scene 1996," Gotlands Knost Museum, Visby, Sweden
1995	"Under Glass," Charles Cowles Gallery, New York "Essence & Persuasion: The Power of Black & White," The Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1994	"About Color," Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1993	"Essentials," Charles Cowles Gallery, New York "Summer Invitational," David Beitzel Gallery, New York

Public Collections
	The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY National Airport, Washington, D.C., Mural Commission Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The United States Embassy, Sofia, Bulgaria The United States Embassy, Vienna, Austria The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Goldman Sachs, New York, NY The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, Washington

Selected Publications
2004	"One Painter, Two Lives," Vanity Fair, October, 2004 "Caio Fonseca," ArtReview, December/January 2004 "Even Silent, a Piano Performs," The New York Times, November 14, 2004 "Caio Fonseca," The New Yorker, November 8, 2004 "An Artist's Way," Washington Life, November 2004 "The Painter and his Tools: Caio Fonseca at Work in Italy," Modern Painters, Fall 2004 "Strokes of Genius," Departures, September 2004
2003	"Caio Fonseca's Abstracts Gain American Aficionados," ARTnewsletter, March 4, 2003 "A maestro pf painting," Aspen Times Weekly, March 8-9, 2003 "Mitologia y modernidad en el IVAM," Las Provincias, March 14, 2003
2002	"Caio Fonseca," Alexi Worth The New Yorker, June 10, 2002 "Caio Fonseca," Ken Johnson The New Times, June 7, 2002 "Caio Fonseca," Talya Halkin The New Sun, June 13, 2002 "Caio Fonseca," Peter Elley BOMB, Fall 2002 "Musical Values are Expressed in his Prints," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 11
2001	"Caio Fonseca at Winston Wachter Fine Art," Anna Fahey Art Access, April 2001 "Looking Beyond Fonseca's Simple Forms," Sheila Farr, The Seattle Times, March 16 "Caio Fonseca at Paul Kasmin," Maura Reilly Art in America, March "Caio Fonseca: Paul Kasmin," Jonathan Gilmore ArtNews, Summer
2000	"The Meaning of Art, Where Art Speaks of Art," Hilary Stunda, The Aspen Times, February 2000.
1999	"Review," Reena Jana, Flash Art, March-April 1999. "Review," Mark Van Proyen, New Art Examiner, April 1999.
1998	"Caio Fonseca," Jay McInerney,Modern Painters, October 1998. "Good Old Fashioned Modernism," The Independent, September 29, 1998.
1997	Interview, Charlie Rose, WNET-TV
1996	"Review & Previews of Current Exhibitions in New York," J. Bowyer Bell, Review, November 15, 1996. "Art Review," Alfred Mac Adam, ArtNews, November 1996. "Caio Fonseca," Neville Wakefield, Elle Decor, November 1996. "The New York Scene 1996," Gotlands Konst Museum Catalog, 1996. Lecture (video) New York Studio School of Painting "Studio Visit," George Melrod, Art & Antiques, June 1996. "Caio Fonseca, " Stefano Eco, Capital (Italy), June 1996. "Review," Pepe Karmel, The New York Times, Friday April 19, 1996. "Music to the Eyes, " Paul Gardner, Harper's Bazaar, April, Issue no. 3413, pp. 200-203.
1995	"Looking Back," George Melrod, Art & Antiques, April.
1994	"Gallery Watch," Grace Glueck, The New York Observer, April 2nd. "Painting the Town," Eileen Daspin, W, April. "Review," Hovey Brock, ArtNews, September.
1993	"Living With the Modern Muse," Margot Mifflin, Elle, April, pp. 86, 90. "Vanities," Bob Colacello, Vanity Fair, April. "Review," Susan Hapgood, Art in America, September. "Review," Siri Huntoon, ArtNews, October. 'Review," Linda Yablonsky, Art Forum, November.
1991	"Review," Mark Mennin, ArtNews.

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Public Collections

Selected Publications