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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2020     Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA

             List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

2019     Delaware Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

2018     Borbures: The Presence of Memory, Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship award exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2018     In Black and White, Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington, DE

2016     Paisajes, Galleria de Artes Visuales, University of Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru

2015     Racso Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA                                                                                  

2014     Flight Plan: Drawings on paper and leaf: Henry Bermudez & Michelle Marcuse at Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY, NY

2013     Solo exhibition: Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA                                                                               

2012     Solo exhibition at The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA                                                                  

2011     Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal C, Philadelphia, PA                                                                         

2010     Pen.Ink.Paper at Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA                                                                                                                                           

2010     Encantamientos/Enchantments, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA                                                                                                                 

2009     A Silver Touch In My Dreams, Hard Core Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL                                                                                         

2008     Con la Mirada en el Cielo, Mason Murer Atlanta, GA
2007     Fragmented Dream, Mason Murer Projects, Atlanta, GA
2005     El Camino de Los Dioces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Maracaibo, Venezuela
2003     Diferencias en la Continuidad, Contemporary Art Museum “Mario Abreu”, Maracay, Vz                                                       
             Drawings, Dimaca Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
2001     Nude Landscape, Art and Space Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1996     Gelsenkirchen Contemporary Art Museum, Germany                      
1993     God, Man and Nature, Simon Bolivar University Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1991     The Embassy Gallery, Miami, FL
1988     Euroamerican Center Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela   

1986     42nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1984     Arch Gallery, New York, NY
1983     Euroamerican Center Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1981     Heyward Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
1979     Estudio Actual Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1977     San Angel Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1975     Estudio Actual Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1973     Estudio Actual Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1972     Gaudi Art Gallery, Maracaibo, Venezuela

SELECT GROUP SHOWS

2022     Contemporary Caribbean:  Unearthing Dialogues, DCS Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany

              Cultivating Space, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ

2018     Against Gravity, Doral Contemporary Art Museum DORCAM/Collection Suites collaboration, Doral, FL  

2018     Destination Latin America, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

2016     Destination Latin America, The Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

             Art and Love [Arte y El Amor, Taller Boricua, NY, NY

             BLAM Projects, Brooklyn, NY [2016]

2015     Borderless Caribbean, Haitian Cultural Art Alliance, Miami, Fl

             Apollonian|Dionysian: The Constraints of Freedom, The Painted Bride, Phila, PA

2014     Flight Plan: Drawings on Paper and Leaf: Henry Bermudez and Michelle Marcuse,

             Denise Bibro Fine Arts. NY, NY

2012     Sum of All Parts: Henry Bermudez & Michelle Marcuse at the Leonard Perlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2010     Suenos: Latin American Contemporary Art, Noyes Museum, NJ

2009    To Be Or Not To Be/ A Painter’s Dilemma, Rutgers University Dept. of Fine Arts, Camden, NJ        

            African Influence in Latin American Art, Silvana Facchini Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami, FL                                                                   

2003    The Box, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
2002    Labyrintum Art Gallery, Gelsenkirghem, Germany
2001    Caribbean Winds”, Galica Contemporary Art Gallery, Milan, Itlay
            X Biennale International of Drawing, Tai Pei, Republic of China
1999    Venezuelan Artists at the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas
            XIII Artists for the Recuperation of the Maracaibo Lake, Contemporary Art Museum of Maracaibo, Maracaibo, Venezuela

1998    The Drawing, Venezuelan Art Center, Bogotá, Colombia
           The Infinite Signs of the Sun, Contemporary Art Museum, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1997    Hierofania, Art and Mirror, Simon Bolivar University Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela-   

            “Animals in the Art of Venezuelan Collections, The Americans House, Palacio Linares, Madrid, Spain                                          
1995     Special Guest by the Committee of F.I.A. 95 (Int’l Art Fair of Caracas), Caracas, Venezuela
1994     II Biennale Camilo Pizarro, Cultural Center Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela
1991     Venezuela and American Friendship Association “IV Venezuela Art Festical”, Freites Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
            Salon de Arte Wizo, Union Israeli, Caracas, Venezuela
1990     Venezuela Emergen Art, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt A.M., Gotting, Germany
1989     Invited to III Biennial International of Havana, Cuba
1987     Iberoamerican Cooperation Art Center, Madrid, Spain
            United Nations Venezuela Art Center, New York, NY
            Belle Art Museum, Caracas, Venezuela
            Cultural Affair of the Regional Government, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1987     Grand Prize Contest Christian Dior, Caracas, Venezuela
1986     XLII Venice Biennale – Venezuela’s Pavillion, Venice, Italy

             XX Triennial of Sacred Art, Milan, Italy
            Salon of Art Alejo Carpentier”, Contemporary Art Museum Alejandro Otero
1984     Three Artists for a Biennial, Contemporary Art Museum Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
1981     Drawing is Thinking C.D.S. Gallery, New York, NY
1980     The Ancient Hands, Today Signs, C.A.N.T.V. Art Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1978     Drawing, Ceramic, Etching, Cultural House, Puebla, Mexico
1976     X Paris Biennial
            III Drawings, Biennial of Cleveland, OH
            Line of Vision, International Exhibition, Washington, DC
1975     First National Contest of Drawing and Design, University of the Andes, Merida, Venezuela
1972     First National Contest Salon Plaza, Caracas, Venezuela

 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES

2018   The Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellowship award

2018   The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund, Philadelphia, PA

2017   The Libby Newman Artist Residency at The Brandywine Print Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

2016   Peter Benoliel Fellowship, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA

2012   Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

2011   Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, Philadelphia, PA

1986   XLII Venice Biennale – Venezuela’s Pavillion, Venice, Italy

                                                                                                                                 

MURALS COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA MURAL ART PROJECTS

The Circle @ Circle Thrift Store, Frankford Ave and Dauphin, Philadelphia, PA 19125

Honeys @ 4th and Brown St in collaboration with Frank Hyder, Philadelphia, PA 19123

South side of 11TH & Erie, Philadelphia, PA

Mander Recreation Center 33rd & Diamond St., Philadelphia, PA, 19121

The Hanging Garden: collaboration with Paul Santoleri and Frank Hyder @ I-95, between Fairmont Ave and Green St.

Mural @ Fitzwater and 12th, collaboration with Michelle Ortiz

 

PUBLIC ART

2011    Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal C, Philadelphia, PA                                                                         

 

COMMUNITY

Co-founder and co-director of HOUSEGallery1816 since 2010.  The gallery has curated over 30 exhibitions and projects across a range of disciplines and media and acts as a bridge between the local and the global at a central location on the Arts Corridor in Fishtown, Philadelphia, PA

 

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Modern Art Museum of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Venezuela National Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuela Petroleum Company (P.D.V.S.A.), Maracaibo, Venezuela
Museum of Contemporary Art Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Contemporary Art, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Museum of Contemporary Art A Juan @ , Merida, Venezuela.
Museum of Contemporary Art A Mario Abreu @ , Maracay, Venezuela.
Moder Art Museum of Costa Rica, Costa Rica.
Puebla Cultural House, Puebla, Mexico.
Museum of Art A Ralli @ Punta Del Este Uruguay .
Heinz Industry, Art Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.
Hans Newman Art Collection, Caracas, Venezuela.
Harry Manil Art Collection, Caracas, Venezuela
Frederick D. Seely, New York, NY.
Haig Garden Collection, New York, NY

 

BIBLOGRAPHY:

100 Artists of the Mid-Atlantic,2011, Author: E.Ashley Ro0ney with forward by Charles Yoder, published by Schiffer

New American Paintings, 2010. The Open Studios Press. Juried Exhibition in Print – 15 Year addition

Irreversible, 2010. publication out of Miami, FL

New American Paintings, 2009. The Open Studios Press. Curator: Stephen Bennett Phillips, The Phillips Collection

New American Paintings, 2007. The Open Studios Press. Curator: Stephen Bennett Phillips, The Phillips Collection.
Venezuela Painting History, by Carlos Silva. Armitanos Editor. Caracas,.Venezuela
Time and Space in the Venezuela Drawing, by Juan Calzadilla.
Study of Visual Art in Venezuela by Juan Calzadilla, Mica Editor, Caracas, Venezuela.
Singulars Paintings of Venezuela Art by Juan Calzadilla, Euzkoamericana of Editions C.A. and the Vasca Encyclopedic, Espane.
The Collection of the Museum @ Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas Sofia Imber
Venezuela Central Bank 1940 B 1996, Caracas.
Henry Bermudez by Enrrique Viloria, Pavilo Editions, Caracas, Venezuela.
El Quijote Latinoamericano @ Estampa Editions, Center for the Study of Cervante, Madrid. 1998.
X International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Tai Pei, Republic of China

EDUCATION:
1965-70 - Studied at the National School of Art “Julio Arraga”, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1976-79 - Studied at the National School of Art “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City, Mexico
1980-83 - Studied at the Art Student’s League, New York, NY
1985-86 - Studied in Rome, Italy

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