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GERMÁN HERRERA MARTINEZ-NEGRETE (México, 1957)
 

AWARDS

 
2007
-“A Chronicle of the subconscious”, hand made book purchased by the Green Library, Stanford University, California.
 
2006 

-Selected for Photoalliance’s 2007 Collector Print Program, San Francisco, California.
-Recipient of an artist residence for October 2006 at the new de Young Museum, San  Francisco, California, USA.
-Selected for the Center for Photographic Art’s Print Collector’s program, Carmel, California, USA.

 
2005 
-Hand made artist books (3) purchased. Green Library, Stanford University, California.
 
2004

Recipient of a Marin Arts Council Photography Grant, California, USA.

-Selected for SF Camerawork’s 2004 Fine Print Collector’s Program (site).
 
1998  
-Recipient of a Marin Arts Council Photography Grant, California, USA.
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
2007
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
 
2006
Center of Photography Woodstock, New York, USA.

De Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA.

Caffé Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA.
Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California, USA.

Museo Diego Rivera, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Fototeca de Veracruz, Mexico.
 
2005
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Centro de la Imagen, México City, México.
Centro Fotográfico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, México.

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA.

 
2004
Fusion Artspace, San Francisco, California

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas,  California, USA.

 
2001 
Recent Work, Open Studio, San Francisco, California, EEUU.
 
1998 

Así lo veo yo (This is how I see it), Galería Soruco, Oaxaca, México.

 
1995
Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, California, USA.
 
1989 

Porción de tierra enteramente rodeada por agua, (Portion of earth entirely surrounded by water), Galería Kahlo-Coronel, México City, México.

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

 
2007

Americas as Source, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California, USA.

 
2006 

Stephen Cohen Gallery booth at Photo Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.

SF Camerawork auction preview show, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Center for Photographic Art’s 16th Annual Awards Exhibition, Carmel, CA, USA.

Aftermath Project auction preview, New York City, NY, USA.

Friends Without a Border Auction preview show, Metropolitan Pavillion, New York City.

The Photograph as Representation and Reflection of Cultural Objects, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD and Prada Gallery, Washington, D.C.,USA.

Stephen Cohen Gallery booth at Photo San Francisco, California, USA.

Bitmap-International Digital Photo Project, LOOP, Seoul, Korea.

Photo Books Now, SF Center for the Book, San Francisco, California, USA.
 
2005

Winter Wonderland: Fantasy and Illusion, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Latin Spirit, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.

Marin Arts Council Grantees Exhibit 2003-2004, Marin Community Foundation, Novato, California, USA.

 

En Masse: Work by Camerawork Members, SF Camerawork, California.

 
2003  

Memories, Dreams and Reflections-Artists exploring the psyche with art.

 

SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.

 

Near and Far: Idea of Place. Artsbenicia Gallery, Benicia, California, USA.

 
Center Awards Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Callifornia, EEUU.
 
1998

Artists Grantee Showcase Exhibition, Falkirk Cultural Center. San Rafael, California, USA.

 
1993-1996 
A Shadow Born of Earth, Contemporary Mexican Photography. San José Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California and      Boston College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA.
 
1992

Día Mundial del Artista, (with the group Renacimiento Tenochtitlán). Rull Building. México City.
Escenarios Rituales (Ritual Scenography). Fotonoviembre, Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands.

 
1990

Other Images/Other Realities: Mexican Photography since 1930, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University. Houston, Texas, USA.
What's New: Mexico City The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Muestra de Fotografía Ambientalista (Environmental Photography Show). Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. Carrillo Gil, INBA. México City.

 
1989

Memoria del Tiempo: 150 Años de Fotografía en México, Museo de Arte Moderno, INBA. México City.

 
1988
Iconografía de la Anticipación (Iconography of Anticipation). Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, INBA. México City.
 
1987

Colectiva del Taller de los Lunes, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, México City and Fototeca de la Habana, Cuba.

 
1986

39 Mexican Photographers, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA.

 
1986
Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal). Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia.
 
1980

Trade Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Eyemazing Magazine, 02 2007, portfolio with an interview by Heather Snider.
Visual Communications Quarterly, Summer-Fall, Volume 12, Numbers 3 & 4, Portfolio, pp.232-241.
Shift: At the frontiers of consciousness. No. 8, Sept.-Nov. 2005. Published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, pp 20.
Shift: at the frontiers of consciousness. No. 6, March-May. 2005. Published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, pp 32.
Nueva Luz. Photographic Journal. Volume 9:2, 2003. Portfolio, commentary by Elizabeth Ferrer p. 28.
Zyzzyva, Volume XIX, Number 1, spring 2003, Portfolio, p. 77 
La Sombra de lo que Veo, (The Shadow of What I See) in Periódico de Poesía (México, UNAM, Nueva época #4, Summer 2002), p.34. Portfolio with poems of Francisco Martínez-Negrete.
Photo Metro, ed. Henry Brimmer (San Francisco, California, USA. Vol. 8, #79, May 1990), p.11. Portfolio.
Coronel Rivera, Juan. El Faro.  Revista de Literatura y Arte, ed. Juan Coronel (México,  Nueva época #1, January-March 1990). Portfolio review.
Historia natural de las cosas. (México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Colección Río de Luz, 1986).
Mercados Indios, (México, Archivo Etnográfico Audiovisual, Instituto Nacional Indigenista. INI-FONAPAS, 1982).

 

REVIEWS

 

Woodstock Times, Glimpses of vastness; Photography by German Herrera at Center for Photography at Woodstock; Review by Paul Smart, 11/09/2006.
http://www.ulsterpublishing.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=382013
Munro, Donald “Herrera’s images capture a shadowy, surreal world”, in Fresno Bee, July 10, 2005.
Pincus, Robert L. “A Shadow Born of Earth/Through the lens of Mexico’s past. 16 artists focus on today’s issues”, in Night & Day Supplement, (San Diego Union Tribune, March 30, 1995).
Castellanos, Alejandro “La generación de los Ochentas”, Fotozoom (México, #162 March 1989).
Vera, César “La muerte moderna de la Fotografía” México en el Arte, #16  Spring 1987.

 

EDUCATION

   
1998 - 2000 Community Healing and Leadership Training, El Cerrito, CA
1999

Workshop with Mary Ellen Mark, Oaxaca, México.

1979 - 1980

California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA.

1978 - 1979 City College of San Francisco, California, USA.
 

COLLECTIONS

 

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California, USA.
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, INBA. México City, México.
Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas, USA.
Museum of Photographic Arts. San Diego, California, USA.
Green Library, Stanford University, California, USA.
Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Philadelphia, USA.

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

 

SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Prada Gallery, Washington, DC
Blanca Berlín Galería, Madrid, Spain.
Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany.

 

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