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Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1965)

“Dominican contemporary art also picks up on themes that just weren’t in the air 40 years ago. The impressive installation of 26 woodblock prints by Raul Recio uses a craft-based populist political format for a hallucinatory autobiographical narrative that blends African-Christian myth with the often harsh realities — poverty, crime, AIDS — of immigrant life in New York.”

- Holland, Cotter, New York Times

“Raúl had been producing, for a long time, a universe so faithful to reality that it was frightening. In that hell, Raúl was, and still is, my master. (…) Annoying, vulgar and hypersensitive “The Stubborn One”, as his friends call him behind his back, possesses a talent for showmanship inside and outside his work. In 2001 Raúl starts to crystallize a project that would unite two realities. The artist and his craft, like Clark Kent and Superman, would stop being two to become one. That is how “La Salsa” is born, a Caribbean superhero; half collector, half baseball player, a sort of elegiac, the African deity of chance and uncertainty, the messenger of the gods that Christians insist on calling Satan.”

- Rita Indiana, Vice Magazine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2015 Almost Paisaje, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2014 Work featured in the Guggenheim Museum blog with Invisible Landscape, video directed by Rita Indiana

2013 Who is la salsa? (Within the Live Art project) Museum of Modern Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Me llevan Recio (Drawings from the Watachi Wateki Ni) Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2012 Watachi Wateki Ni, Centro Cultural Español, Santo Domingo, R.D.

2010 45 Arma Mortal, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R. & Miami, FL.

2007 Catarsis, Estampas Las Mercedes, Santo Domngo, D.R.

2004 La Salsa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D. R. (Performance, film, animation, installations and drawings)

2003 Ay Sosua, Casa de Cultura, Puerto Plata, D.R.

2001 La nueva familia, IV Biennial of the Caribbean, Casa del Tostado, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1999 Piscinas del Placer, Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1998 Estoy aquí pero no soy yo, Silvia Conde Galería, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1995 Majao Majao, Galería Principal de la Municipalidad de Miraflores, Perú.

1994 Recent Works, Curated by Luis Lama, Corriente Alterna, Lima, Perú.

1993 Solo otra vez, Curated by Silvia Conde, Salón de Arte y Arquitectura, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1991-93 Installation at the Art School in Palo Amarillo, Caracas, Venezuela.

1988 Raul Recio Ga Ga Party Tonite, Galeria Nouveau, Santo Domingo, D.R..

1986 Raul Recio & Pedro Terreiro, Galeria Nouveau, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1986 First Solo Show at Galería Nouveau, Santo Domingo, D.R.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2015 #20yearsontheroad: 20^th Anniversary, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2011 Estética Sold: 16^th Anniversary, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2010 Pasajes, Travelling collective. Centro Cultural Español, Santo Domingo, D.R. Latin America

2008 Museum of the National Center of Afro American, Boston, Mass

2008 Drawings Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery Santo Domingo, D. R. & Miami, FL

2007 Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, Washington, D.C.

2007 Bringing the new blood, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery,Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL

2006 Que no me quiten lo pintao: Códigos visuals del merengue El Museo del Barrio, New York., N.Y.

2005 Group Show, Saint Joseph College, Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2005 Que no me quiten lo pintao: Códigos visuals del merengue, Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, D.R.

2005 Latin paradox & coexistence I, IDB Cultural Center, New York, NY

Latin paradox & coexistence II, The Luis Angel Arango Museum, Bogota, Colombia

Latin paradox & coexistence III, Casa de la Moneda, Banco Central, Santiago, Chile

2004 Artists of Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by BID, Washington D.C.

2003 Group Show, Art Gallery of New Hampshire University

2003 After Columbus, Kunst Merme Huss, Oslo, Norway

2002 Latin American Graphics: The Evolution of identity from the mythical to the personal, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA

2002 Todo tiene su nombre, Text by Silvia Karman Cubinas., CRP Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, D.R..

2000 Bienal Nacional, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, D.R.

2000 XVIII Concurso E. León Jiménes, Centro Cultural E. León Jiménes, Santiago, D.R.

2000 Cariveo2000 (5^th Anniversary) Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1999 Mixta sobre Papel II, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1999 Visiones Contemporáneas III, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery , Santo Domingo, D.R.

1999 Contemporary Latin American Art, Pasaje de Rezt, Paris, France

1999 VI Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador

1997 Modern and Contemporary Art of the Dominican Republic, Bass Museum, Miami Beach FL

1997 Insight Into Otherness, Art Center of Miami, Miami, Florida

1997 Visiones Contemporáneas II, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1997 Mystery and Mysticims in Dominican Art, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C.

1996 Modern and Contemporary Art of the Dominican Republic, Americas Society, New York, NY

1996 Insight into otherness, Curated by Anna Lockward, Art Center of South Florida.

1996 Bienal Nacional, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, D.R.

1995-90 La generación de los 80 (Mural Paintings), Museum of Modern Art of Santo Domingo, D. R.

1994 Vasos de agua, Biennial of La Habana, Cuba.

1994 El Suceso Collection, Curated by Silvia Conde, Galería Principal de Altos de Chavón, La Romana, D.R.

1994 Collective shows with the “Frío Cálido Project” by José García Cordero, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1992 Bienal Nacional, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, D.R.

1992 X Biennial, Mostra de Gravura, Ciudade de Curitiva, Brasil

1992 XX Bienal de Grabado, San Juan, P.R.

1990 Bienal Nacional, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, D.R.

RECOGNITIONS & AWARDS

2015 Awarded at the XXVIII Biennale of Visual Arts, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2004 Awarded at the XX Biennale of Visual Arts, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, D.R.

2000 Award by the Centro Cultural León, Santiago de los Caballeros, D.R.

1999 Invited to the Biennial, Quito, Ecuador

1998 Gold Medal, II Biennale del Caribe, Santo Domingo,D.R.

1994 Winning piece, II Biennial of the Caribbean, “Pintura de tres horas”

1992 Awarded at the Latin American Engraving Biennial, San Juan, P.R.

EDUCATION

1985-1990 Workshops with Consuelo Gotsy and Miky Vicioso, Taller de Gráfica Nouveau, Santo Domingo, D.R.

1983-1987 Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo

1975-1985 Scholarship by Banco de Reservas de la República Dominicana

COLLECTIONS

US Embassy, Santo Domingo, D.R.

Museo de Arte Moderno Santo Domingo, D.R.

Centro Cultural León Jiménes

Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, D.R.

Dominican Chamber of Deputies, Santo Domingo, D.R.

Casa Cortés Collection, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico

US Department of the Treasury, Washington D.C.

International Development Bank, Washington D.C.

Contemporary Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cultural Institute of Puerto Rico

Private Collections in the Dominican Republic, United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan