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Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia, 1928-2010.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1974 Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
Multipla Gallery, Brasilia, Brazil.
Mecondo Gallery, Guatemala, Guatemala.
Colibrí Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Arte Contacto Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
Ipanema Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1973 Pecanins Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
Pecanins Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Modern Art Center, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Ipanema Art Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Art Gallery, Executives Club, Cali, Colombia.
Special Hall 21st Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Gallery of the University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico.
1972 La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Museum of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Group 81Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1971 “Retrospectiva 1960-1971”, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
“Intaglios eróticos”, Buchholz Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
“Retrospectiva”, Track Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
1970 Casa del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Colibrí Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Lunn Gallery, Washington DC, USA.
Pecanins Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA.
Jac Mizrachi Gallery, New York, USA.
Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, USA.
1969 El Retablo Gallery, Cali, Colombia.
Buchholz Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
Lahumière Gallery, Paris, France.
Richard Feigen Graphics, New York, USA.
1968 AAA Gallery, New York, USA.
Virginia Union University, Virginia, USA.
Colibrí Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
La Casa del Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA.
XX2 Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela.
Panamanian Institute of Art, Panama City, Panama.
University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
University Maine, Maine, USA.
1967 Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.
Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
Avenida 19 Gallery, Colombo-American Center, Bogota, Colombia.
1966 Colseguros Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia.
Philadelphia Club, Philadelphia, USA.
1965 Devorah Shermen Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Flair House Gallery, Cincinnati, USA.
The Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA.
AAA Gallery, New York, USA.
Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1964 “The Artist as Print-maker”, Pan American Union, Washington DC, USA.
1963 Gregorio Vásquez Hall, Bogotá, Colombia.
1962 Juan Martin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
1961 The Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA.
1960 Friends of the Country Economic Society, Bogota, Colombia.
Museum of Modern Art, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico.
Genoa Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Arte Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico.
1959 Genoa Gallery and Excelsior Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1978 Fra Angelico Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
“Exposición de artistas colombianos”, De Armas Gallery, Miami, USA.
“Geometría sensible”, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“El dibujo, la expresión del arte gráfico actual”, Buchholz Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
1977 “Obra extraviada”, La Galerie, Bogota, Colombia.
“La plástica colombiana del siglo XX”, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba.
“Panorama artístico colombiano”, El Callejón, Bogota, Colombia.
“90 años de El Espectador”, Arte Independencia Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
“La mujer en el arte”, Buchholz Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
“Pintura para la música”, The Art of Music Foundation, Bogota, Colombia.
“21 estilos de flores”, La Gruta Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
“Nacionales y extranjeros”, La Galerie, Bogota, Colombia.
1976 Center for lnternational Arts, San Diego Gallery, New York, USA.
Chamber of Commerce of Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
“Pintura colombiana actual”, National University Art Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
1975 Meindl Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
1973 “Grabadores y dibujantes de Colombia”, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Anniversary of the OAS, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Luis Angel Arango Library, Panamanian Institute of Art, Panama City, Panama.
American Biennial of Graphic Arts, Cali, Colombia.
1972 Coltejer Art Biennial, Medellin, Colombia.
Jorge Tadeo Lozano University National Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
Internationale Kunstverein, Frechen, Germany.
1971 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“Colombia 71“, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
“10 años de arte colombiano”, La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
Colombian Artists Salon, National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
“Twelve Artists from Latin America”, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA.
“Hawaii National Print Exhibition”, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii.
“Le Dessin D’humour du XV Siecle á nos Jours”, Bibliothéque Natíonale, Paris, France.
“National Prints”, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
Dulin National Print and Drawings Competition, Kingston, USA.
“The Print Club”, Philadelphia, USA.
American Biennial of Graphic Arts, La Tertulia Museum, Colombia.
1970 International Biennial of Gravure, Krakow, Poland.
First Latin American Engraving Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
“Latin American Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of John and Barbara Duncan”, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, USA.
Expo 70, Osaka, Japan.
“Latin American Prints”, Zegri Gallery, New York, USA.
Coltejer Art Biennial, Medellin, Colombia.
National Prints Exhibition, State University College, New York, USA.
“The World is Image”, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA.
“Contemporary Latin American Graphic Artists”, Libra Gallery, New York, USA.
“Pintura contemporánea de los países del área andina”, Lima, Peru.
“Gráfica latinoamericana”, Pecanins Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
Colombian Artists Salon, Bogota, Colombia
Art Festival, Cali, Colombia.
1969 International Print Show, Michigan University, Ypsilanti, USA.
Print Competition, Palomar College, San Marcos, USA.
Colombian Artists salon, Bogota, Colombia.
“Xylon V”, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Cinq Cents Gravures Contemporaines”, Bibilothéque Nationale, Paris, France.
National Prints Exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
“5 Colombian Artists”, Pan American Society of New England, Boston, USA.
National Invitation Print Show, San Diego, USA.
Annual Latin American Print Show, Zegri Gallery, New York, USA.
“Prints and Posters from the USA”, US Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
“El grabado internacional”, Mexico City, Mexico.
National Invitation Printmaking Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA.
Art Festival, Cali, Colombia.
National Invitation Print Show, Long Beach Art Gallery, Long Beach, USA.
“Birds and Beasts”, Graham Gallery, New York, USA.
“American Contemporary Prints: One”, London, UK.
1968 “Graphics 1968, Recent American Prints”, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The State University College, Potsdam, USA.
“Violence in Recent American Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
Biennial lnternazionale dell’lncisione, Pescia, Italy.
First Biennial of Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
National Art Festival, Cali, Colombia.
First Ibero-American Painting Biennial, Medellin, Colombia.
American Print Biennial, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Manhattan Observed”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
“Art in Editions, New Approaches”, New York University, New York, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, USA.
Print and Drawing Competition, The Duling Gallery of Art, Knoxville, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
Annual Print and Drawings Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York, USA.
International Print Exhibition, The Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Manchester, UK.
1967 “Black and White”, The Print Club, Philadelphia, USA.
“London, New York, Hollywood: A New Look in the Prints”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA.
“Graphics”, Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, USA.
“The Gravure d’Amerique Latine”, La Tour Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
“1, 2, 3 Infinity”, The Contemporaries, New York, USA.
“Latin American Exhibition”, The Stanford Museum and Nature Center, Stanford, USA.
“The Graphic Arts”, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
International Biennial of Original Colored Graphics, Grenchen Art Society, Bern, Switzerland.
National Print and Drawing Competition, The Duling Gallery of Art, Knoxville, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The State University College, Posdam, USA.
“Homenaje a Rubén Darío”, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
1966 “Hommage á Caissa”, Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, New York, USA.
“Five Centuries of Graphic Art”, The Museum of Graphic Art, New York, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
National Prints Exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
“New Names in Latin American Art”, Smithsonian Traveling Service, Washington DC, USA.
“America Today: 25 Painters as Printmakers”, MOMA, New York, USA.
“London, New York, Hollywood: A New Look in Prints”, MOMA, New York, USA.
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum, New York, USA.
“Currents Trends in American Art: Pop, Op, Top”, The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, USA.
Colombian Artists Salon, National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
1965 Pan American Painting Salon, Cali, Colombia.
American Print Biennial, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan.
“Black and White”, The Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA.
Colombian Artists Salon, National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
“White on White”, Coedoba Museum, Lincoln, USA.
1964 National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
“Selections of Latin American Art”, New York, USA.
“Black and White”, The Print Club, Philadelphia, USA.
“The Latin Americas”, The Institute of Porary Arts, Washington DC, USA.
“Artists”, MOMA, New York, USA.
International Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Tokyo, Japan.
“Modern Masters of Intaglio”, Queens College, New York, USA.
“Magnet: New York”, Bonino Gallery, New York, USA.
“White on White”, The Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA.
Art Festival, Cali, Colombia.
National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
“Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers”, MOMA, New York, USA.
“The Plate, the Block, the Stone and the Print”, AAA Gallery, New York, USA.
1963 Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, USA.
Suramericana Gallery, New York, USA.
Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
Cali Festival, Arte Estudio Gallery, Cali, Colombia.
Art of America and Spain, Madrid, Spain.
“Siglo XX y la pintura en Colombia”, National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“New Experiments in Art”, Cordova Museum, Lincoln, USA.
1962 The Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA.
“The Print Club”, Philadelphia, USA.
National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
Annual Exhibition, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA.
1961 Pan American Union, Washington DC, USA.
Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, USA.
Wiggin Gallery, Boston, USA.
1960 Inter-American Salon of Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Inter-American Biennial of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
1959 Inter-American Salon of Barranquilla, Barranquilla, Colombia.
Colombian Artists Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
Mexican Painting Salon, Mexico City, Mexico.
1958 La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
Manizales Fair, Manizales, Colombia.
José Eusebio Caro Hall, National Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Cundinamarca Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
Colombian Artists Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
Museum of Zea, Medellín, Colombia.
1957 Salon of the Municipality, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sol de Bronce Galleries, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Ministry of Education, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
1956 Asociación Brasileira de lmprensa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Brazilian Artists Salon, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Petite Galerie de Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Arte Bella Gallery, Montevideo, Uruguay.
1955 Writers and Artists Association, Lima, Peru.
University of San Agustin, Arequipa, Peru.
Latin American Artists Salon, Lima, Peru.
University of La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia.
Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1954 Alferez Real Hotel, Cali, Colombia.
Ecuadorian Cultural Center, Quito, Ecuador.
1953 Colombian Cartoonists Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
1952 New School for Social Research, New York, USA.
National Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Colombian Artists Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
1950 National Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Colombian Artists Salon, Bogota, Colombia.
1949 Museum of Zea, Medellin, Colombia.
Departmental Assembly, Manizales, Colombia.
1948 Colombian Society of Engineers, Bogota, Colombia.
Pan American Conference, Bogota, Colombia.
1946 Roldanillo Tropical Club, Roldanillo, Colombia.
1945 Belisario Peña de Roldanillo College, Roldanillo, Colombia.
COLLECTIONS
National Museum, Bogota, Colombia.
Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogota, Colombia.
Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Colombia.
Banco Cafetero, Bogota, Colombia.
Museum of Zea, Medellín, Colombia.
La Tertulia Museum, Cali, Colombia.
New York Public Library, New York, USA.
Print Room, New York, USA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA.
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA.
Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, USA.
Boston Public Library, Boston, USA.
Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA.
University of South Florida, Tampa, USA.
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA.
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, USA.
Rosenwald Collection, Jenkintown, USA.
Achenback Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, USA.
University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
Deering Millken Collection, South Carolina, USA.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador.
Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela.
Panamanian Institute of Art, Panama City, Panama.
Museum of Modern Art, Munich, Germany.
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.
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