Ramon Antonio Carulla (Cuban, born 1936). Artist signature to lower right. Label verso. Retains original JOY MOOS GALLERY label. Dimensions: 38.5 X 28 inches. Paper is 28 X 19.5 inches. This painting is a mixed media with oil paint, on paper It is hand signed recto and signed and titled verso. An abstract naive, folk art, work depicting a male figure with geometric forms. Ramon Carulla, born in Havana, Cuba in 1936 moved to the United States in 1967. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has participated in personal and group exhibitions in Canada, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain and throughout the USA. Select Gallery Exhibitions: Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, Florida), The Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), The International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C.) The Art Expo (New York City). Select Awards: First Prize at the VI Graphic Biennial of Latin America (1983; San Juan, Puerto Rico), the Silvia Daro Dawidowicz Award for Painting (1980; Metropolitan Museum) the Samuel Golan Award (1982, Fine Art Auction Exhibition; CH 2, Miami, Florida). the Cintas Fellowship (Institute of International Education; United Nations, New York) SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 2005 Sonnet Gallery (Sarasota, Florida) 2000 Ramon Carulla: People and Places - Corbino Galleries, 1998 The Dreamers - Cuban Collection Fine Art (Coral Gables, Florida) 1997 The Immigrant Series – Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center (Miami, Florida) 1996-96 Ramon Carulla: Works on Paper – PJorn (Hamburg, Germany) 1994 Ramon Carulla: New Paintings, Plates & Boxes – The Barbara Scott Gallery Rostros para recordar – Galería Traz (Mexico City, Mexico) 1993 Ramon Carulla, Exhibición Personal – Contemporary Art Museum (Panama) 1992 Ramon Carulla: Recent Work - The Barbara Scott Gallery (Bay Harbor, Florida) 1991 Cabinet Room – The Capitol (Tallahassee, Florida) 1988 Sofa & Hostage Series – Jay Moos Gallery 1987 20 Years After – Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida) 1985 Malcom Brown Gallery – (Cleveland, Ohio) Mask Series – Forma Galley (Miami, Florida) Masks, Hats, Other Headgear: A Retrospective - Schweyer-Gallardo Gallery 1983 Recent Works – VI Graphic Biennial (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 1980 Life Boundaries Series – Virginia Miller Gallery (Coral Gables, Florida) 1975 Atelier J. Lukacs (Montreal, Canada) 1967 Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida) Ramón Antonio Carulla (born December 7, 1936 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban artist. During his artistic life he took part in many collective exhibitions like "I Bienal de Artistas Noveles de Cuba". Centro de Arte Internacional, Havana, Cuba, 1965. He was included too in Drawing ’85"", 7th International Drawing Biennial. Middlesbrough Fine Arts Museum, Cleveland, Reino Unido, 1985. He was also one of the selected artists for "The Latin America Graphic Arts Biennial", Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York, U.S.A, 1986. That year he was also presented the 8 Norwegian International Print Biennale Fredrikstad 1986. Fredrikstad, Noruega, 8th International Exhibition of Graphic Art: Triennial of Graphic Art. Frechen, R.F.A. In 1995 he participated in The 3rd Sapporo International Biennial. Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan. Ramon Carulla is included in the book MEMORIA: CUBAN ART OF 20TH CENTURY By Jose Veigas-zamora & Cristina Vives alongside masters like Amelia Pelaez and Wifredo Lam (Ramón Alberto Carulla) moved to the United States in 1965 and had his first one-man show exhibit shortly after in 1967 at The Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida). Since his first exhibit fifty years ago his work has been widely exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, France, Poland, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, England, Germany, Yugoslavia, Norway, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Egypt and Dubai. Joy Moos gallery was an influential Miami gallery specializing in folk art, self-taught visionary, outsider and contemporary art (Galerie Moos, Montréal; Joy Moos Gallery, Miami. Joy was a recognized photographer, jewelry designer and interior decorator. She wrote a catalogue on Purvis Young and promoted Cuban artist Ramon Carulla. Her gallery also showed major contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg of Captiva Island and Edward Ruscha of Los Angeles. MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art History Department, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Art in Public Places, Miami-Dade County, Miami, Florida Barnett Bank Corporation Collection, Miami, Florida Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida Cabo Frio International Print Biennial Collection, Cabo Frio, Brazil CBS International Corporation Collection, New York, New York Centre International of Art Contemporain, Paris, France Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Cintas Foundation, Institute of International Education, New York, New York City Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland Contemporary Museum of Art, Panama City, Panama Contemporary Museum De Velez-Malaga, Malaga, Spain Continental Bank International, Chicago, Illinois Cuban Museum of Art & Culture, Miami, Florida Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan Eastern National Bank, Coral Gables, Florida Florean Museum, Maramures, Romania Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Kochi-Ken, Japan Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico Instituto Cultural Domecq, Mexico City, Mexico International Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahia, Brazil Japan Print Association Collection, Tokyo, Japan Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kanagawa, Japan Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan Lehigh University Art Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida Miami-Dade Public Library Permanent Art Collection, Miami, Florida Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico Museo Nacional del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway Museum of Contemporary Arts, São Paulo, Brazil Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington, DC National Center of Art, Giza, Egypt Norton Gallery Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida Pace Collection, Miami, Florida Pace Collection, New York, New York Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pontifical University of Campinas, San Paulo, Brazil Radford University Museum, Radford, Virginia Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, Dubai Societe des Artistes Internationals, Paris, France Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea Tama University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona The New School of Social Research, New York, New York The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Silvia Daro Davidowicz Permanent Collection, University of Miami Library, Coral Gables, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.