Visual Artist

Liliana Folta

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1960
Lives in Boston, Massachusetts

Upcoming exhibitions: 2024 - 2025

– Fort Point Open Studios @ Midway Artists Studios - Boston - October 19 - 20 - Hours 11am to 5pm - 2024

– Proctor Academy Solo Exhibition & Hybrid Talk - “Everything is Connected”- New Hampshire September/ December 2024

– Fort Point Art Space, Boston, MA - “Earth Month: Environmental Awareness Project” - April 19 Opening reception - 2025.

– Midway Gallery Boston, MA - “Thaw: We Are In Peril” - May/June - 2025

– Universidad Católica Argentina - Buenos Aires (UCA) “Visiones de La Tierra” (Visions of The Earth) - Permanent Virtual exhibition on the Global Biodiversity Crisis. https://biblioteca.uca.edu.ar/expo/visiones/visiones.html

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions:

2023/2024 – Gallery 1832 @ LabCentral - Cambridge, MA

Two Women Show - Geomorphic Foresights: Meditations on The Environmental Crisis

2022 – Spoke Gallery – Boston, MA

2017 – Argentinian Embassy - Berlin, Germany

2012 – Amazing Things Art Center – Framingham MA. USA

2011 – Agencyport Technology – Boston USA

2003 – Tarrant County Collage North East – Texas USA

Biennial/Triennial – Invitational:

2013 – Cluj International Ceramics Biennale – Cluj-Napoca Art Museum – Romania

2013 – 1a Bienal Arte Sacro Contemporáneo – Museo Histórico Ramón Rivera Bermúdez, Puerto Rico

2010 – 1st Biennial of the Americas – Museo de las Américas – Denver USA – "Libertadores"

2004 – 3rd International Triennial of Ceramic Tile – Museo de la Cerámica Contemporánea, Dominican Republic

Selected group exhibitions:

2024

– Cluj-Napoca International Ceramic Collection exhibition - Caolin Ceramic Festival, Romania

– Lexington Art and Craft Society, Massachusetts - “Free Speech: Art & Activism” - July 21st. To August 26th. 2024.

– Lexington Arts & Crafts Society, Massachusetts - Reimagining Our World: Rejected Materials Reinvented

2023

– Piano Craft Gallery Boston, MA - "Inspiring Change for the Climate Crisis: The Non-Human is Pushing Back"

– Midway Gallery Boston, MA - "State of the Earth" Project - 21 Women Artists on Global Biodiversity Crisis"

– The Umbrella Art Center Gallery, Concord, MA – "Reflections: Listening to Nature"

2022

– Danforth Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition - Framingham University, MA.

– Midway Gallery - Boston, MA

– Lesley University - Earth Day - Boston, MA

2021

– WoArt Online Gallery, New York

– The Umbrella Art Center - Concord, MA

Change is in the Air

2020

– United Nations 75: Global Conversations 2020

– Rockefeller Center, NYC - "The Flag Project"

Installation of a flag design at the Rink

– Mother Brook Art and Community Art Center - Dedham, MA

Wearable Art and the WOW Factor

2018

– Berlin Science Week - Art/Science "Eco-connectivity" – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Thaer Institut

– Nacht & Tag in den Gerichtshöfen - Art District Wedding, Berlin

2017

– François Schneider Foundation Centre d'Art Contemporain – Contemporary Talents Finalist

– Transatlántica – Berlin – Ceramic sculptures and objects – Black and White series

2016

– Group Global 3000 – Berlin Art Week – “The Age of Man Kind, we create a new epoch of the Earth”

– Caribbean Museum and Center for the Arts – Saint Croix, Virgin Islands

"Women to Women, Island to Island: A Dialogue"

2015

– Templeton General Project – Collaboration with Supported Agriculture and ceramic – Boston

– Fort Point Arts Gallery – Boston USA

– Spring Open Studios – Fort Point, Boston USA

– Made in Fort Point Feature Artist – Boston USA

– Midway Gallery – Boston USA

2014

– Fall Open Studios – Fort Point, Boston USA

– Temporary Public Art, Founded by New England Foundation for the Arts – Boston USA

– Museo de Historia – Ponce, Puerto Rico

– Spoke Gallery – Medicine Wheel, Boston USA

– Spring Open Studios – Fort Point – Boston USA

– Midway Gallery – Boston USA

2013

– Cluj International Ceramics Biennale – Cluj-Napoca Art Museum – Romania

– Fort Point Open Studios – Boston USA

– Fort Point Arts Community Gallery – Fall Open Studios – Boston USA

– 1a Bienal Arte Sacro Contemporaneo – Museo Histórico Ramón Rivera Bermúdez, Puerto Rico

– Midway Gallery – Boston USA

2012

– Traveling Exhibition Puerto Rico (Fine Art Popular Center – Compañia de Turismo Gallery

–Casa Gonzalez Cuyar, Colegio de Arquitectos – Puerto Rico

–Galería de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico – International Women's Month

– Art at 12 Gallery – Boston USA

– Midway Gallery – Boston USA

– Compañía de Turismo – Puerto Rico

2011

– TransCultural Exchange International Conference, "An Abstract Poem of Freedom" Part II”

Global Collaboration – Midway Gallery – Boston

– Galería de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico

– New York Public Library Aguilar Branch – "The Last Book" – Luis Camnitzer Collaborative Project

– Midway Artists Open Studios – Boston USA

2010

– 1st Biennial of the Americas – Museo de las Américas – Denver USA

"Libertadores" – Ceramic & Mixed Media Installation

– Centro Cultural Musical Criollo J.I. Qintón – Puerto Rico

– Art at 12 Gallery – Boston USA

– Fort Point Arts Community Open Studios – Boston USA

2009

– FPAC Gallery and Open Studios – Boston USA

– Cultural Office of the City of Manatí – Puerto Rico

– El-Status Platform of Puerto Rico Contemporary Art – Muñoz Rivera Park – Puerto Rico

– Universidad Metropolitana de Cupey – Puerto Rico

2005-2008

– Código 3 Gallery – Puerto Rico

– National Library of Buenos Aires, Argentina – "The Last Book" – Luis Camnitzer Collaborative Project

– National Library New York – NYC – "The Last Book" – Luis Camnitzer Collaborative Project

– Universidad Interamericana de Fajardo – Puerto Rico

– Ku Art Center – Beijing, China – Collaborative Ceramic Mural Installations Olympic Games

– Historical & Cultural Center of Cibuco, Puerto Rico

– Uri Art Gallery – Puerto Rico

1998-2004

– 3rd International Triennial of Ceramic Tile – Museo de la Cerámica Contemporanea, Dominican Republic

– Sanz The Shop Gallery – Puerto Rico

– Tarrant County College – Texas, USA

– Fort Worth Art Center – Fort Worth, Texas USA

– May Fest Art Show – Fort Worth, Texas USA

– Tarrant County College North East – Texas USA

– The Art Gallery Broward College – Florida USA

Awards and Honors

– The Puffin Foundation Grant recipient - 2024

– Lexington Art & Crafts Society - Art & Activism Award - 2024

– Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant recipient 2023

– Selected for the Danforth Art Museum Annual Juried Exhibition

– Artepreneur Prize - NYC - 2020

– Fondation François Schneider - Centre d'art contemporain -Finalist Contemporary Talents 2017

– Grant – New England Foundation for the Arts– Massachusetts USA – 2014

– Featured Artist Saatchi Gallery – Curator Rebecca Wilson – London – 2013

– Selected Cluj-Napoca Art Museum – International Contemporary Ceramic Biennale – Romania – 2013

– Featured Artist Ceramic Now Magazine – Romania – Curator Vasi Hirdo

– Invitational Solo Exhibition, Amazing Things Art Center – Massachusetts USA – 2012

– Invitational – Museo de las Americas – 1st Biennial of the Americas – Denver USA – 2010

– American College Recognition of Outstanding Merit and Accomplishment – Texas – 2003

– Excellence in Education – Distinguished Scholarship – Tarrant County College, Texas –2003

– Friend of Education Award – Public Art Mosaic Mural – Texas USA –2003

Education:

Tarrant County College NE – Fine Arts – Texas

Private and Public Collections:

USA – Puerto Rico – Argentina – Spain – Poland – Australia – Museum of Contemporary Ceramic, Dominican Republic – Wilshire Elementary School – Euless Texas – Academia Perpetuo Socorro, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Collaborative Public Art Project – Puerto Rico Institute of Culture: Expres-Arte a Todo Rincón: City of Carolina, Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Aguas Buenas and Rio Grande, Puerto Rico – Ceramic Murals

Ku Art Center – Beijing China – Public Installation for the 2008 Olympic Games – Collaboration

Artist-in-Residence

Wilshire Elementary School – Public Mosaic Mural – Euless, Texas (2001-2003)

Academia del Perpetuo Socorro – Public Mosaic Mural – Puerto Rico (2005-2009)

Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, Expres-Arte Program – Community Public Art (2005-2009)

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