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 in Cuba before the Cuban revolution of 1953-59.[1] 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.[2]

Zilia Sánchez Dominguez
Born1926
NationalityCuban
Known forabstract painter

History

Sánchez was born in Havana, Cuba.[3] Her mother was Cuban and her father Spanish.[4] In 1943 Sánchez studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana and later had her first solo exhibition in 1953.[5] Following Fidel Castro's rise to power, Sanchez moved to New York where she studied printmaking at Pratt Institute.[3] 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.[6] Her work was included in the influential exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at the Brooklyn Museum in 2018.[7] She is a feminist pioneer in contemporary art. Her Amazonas series features female warriors highlighting the female form[8] and her work has been described as having "sensual contours".[9] Sánchez's art style changed within the beginning years of her creating art. Early into her career she was focused on creating pieces that focused on the informal practices of abstact expressionism and visual language. By the mid-1960's she had started working on her sensual signature stretched canvas works.[10]

Her artwork has been described as "overlooked" and "rarely seen outside of Puerto Rico."[11]

In 2019, the Phillips Collection exhibited her first museum retrospective, covering her 70-year career.[12]

Exhibitions
  • 1957 - Exposición de pinturas: Zilia Sánchez, Galería Clan, Madrid. [13]
  • 1958 - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana. [14]
  • 1970 - Estructuras en secuencia, Museo de Historia, Arqueología y Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan. [15]
  • 1991 - Zilia Sánchez: Tres décadas: Los sesenta, los setenta, los ochenta. Museo Casa Roig, Humacao, Puerto Rico. [16]
  • 2000 - Heroic/Erotic, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico.[17]
  • 2013 - Artists Space, New York City.[18]
  • 2014 - Zilia Sánchez: Heróicas eróticas en Nueva York, Galerie Lelong, New York. [19]
  • 2017 - 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA. [20]
  • 2019 - Soy Isla (I Am an Island), Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.[21]

References
  1. Cotter, Holland (2013-06-13). "Zilia Sánchez". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  2. "Three Cuban Artists Take On the Moon at Galerie Lelong". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  3. Furman, Anna (2019-11-29). "An Artist Who Transforms Paintings Into Cosmic Sculptures". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
  4. Sretenovic, Vesela (2019). Zilia Sánchez : Soy Isla. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780300233902.
  5. Steinhauer, Jillian (2020-02-06). "Zilia Sánchez's Island of Erotic Forms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
  6. 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.
  7. "Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-85 at Brooklyn Museum | BLOUIN ARTINFO". www.blouinartinfo.com. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  8. D'Addario, John (2017-05-30). "Canvas is just a starting place for Puerto Rican contemporary artists at Newcomb show". The New Orleans Advocate.
  9. "Puerto Rican Painters Who Fold, Cut, and Tear the Canvas". Hyperallergic. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  10. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Aware.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Hammer.
  14. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Hammer.
  15. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Hammer.
  16. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Hammer.
  17. Alvarez Lezama, Manuel (Aug–Oct 2000). "Zilia Sanchez". Art Nexus. Issue 37: 132–33 – via Art & Architecture Complete.
  18. Barral, Alberto (2013). "Zilia Sánchez". Art Nexus. 12:90: 121–22 – via Art & Architecture Complete.
  19. Guerrero, Marcela. "Zilia Sánchez". Hammer.
  20. "ZILIA SÁNCHEZ". Galerie Lelong & Co. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  21. 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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